In this webinar, distinguished scholars in OR/analytics will discuss how we can influence OR/analytics journals to engage with diversity, equity and inclusion and racial and social justice in creative ways. These include: encouraging critical and inclusive approaches to scholarship on emerging and traditional topics; increasing participation by authors from traditionally underrepresented groups, and revising journal operations and strategy, including topic scope, review policies, distribution and leadership.
Participants:
Margret Vilborg Bjarndóttir
Margret Bjarndóttir is an Associate Professor of Management Science and Statistics at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Bjarnadóttir’s research focuses on data-informed decision-making, combining traditional operations research approaches with machine learning. In addition to the main focus of her work, which is health care, she has applied analytical models to contexts in demographic pay gaps, finance, sports and most recently, to illicit supply chains. Her work has been published in many leading journals such as Operations Research and Production and Operations Management, as well as popular outlets such as Harvard Business Review, HR Magazine, Forbes and others. She teaches data analytics and has received multiple teaching awards including being named the best MBA professor by Poets & Quants. In addition to serving on multiple journal editorial boards, she plays a leadership role on special issues of Production and Operations Management and INFORMS Transactions on Education devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. Dr. Bjarnadóttir is a member of the INFORMS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and has served as a DEI Ambassador. Dr. Bjarnadóttir is the founder of PayAnalytics, providing a pay equity platform to organizations around the world. Dr. Bjarnadóttir holds a BS degree in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Iceland and a PhD in Operations Research from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gemma Berenguer
Gemma Berenguer is an Associate Professor and a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds an M.Eng. in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (ZLC), an M.S. in Economics (Barcelona GSE), and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics (UPC BarcelonaTech). Before joining Carlos III, she was an Assistant Professor at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University.
Professor Berenguer’s major research topics are nonprofit supply chain management, sustainable and socially responsible operations, and supply chain design. She teaches at the undergraduate, Master, and Executive levels. She has experience collaborating with private, public and nonprofit organizations in the global healthcare, consumer goods, transportation, electronic goods, and solar energy sectors. She has published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, and Journal of Operations Management. She serves as Senior Editor at POM Journal and is on the editorial review board of the Decision Sciences Journal. Among different accomplishments, she has won the Skinner Best paper award at POM journal (2018) and the SOLA INFORMS Bi-annual Dissertation Award (2014).
Professor Berenguer serves as the President of the Public Sector Operations Research Section at INFORMS and is the Vice-President Europe at POMS.
Chris Tang
Christopher Tang is a University Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He serves as the INFORMS Vice President of Publications and Senior Associate Dean of Global Initiatives of the UCLA Anderson School. He has also served as editor-in-chief of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, dean of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, and president of the Production and Operations Management Society.
Dr. Tang has published 7 books, 30 book chapters, over 100 online blogs, and over 200 research articles in various leading academic journals. He has written over 200 articles for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, Los Angeles Times and other outlets. He was elected as lifetime fellow by the Institute of Operations and Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM). He received his BS (First class honours in Mathematics) from King’s College, London, M.A (in Statistics), M.Phil (in Administrative Science), and PhD (in Management Science) from Yale University.