Gary D. Scudder
Justin Potter Professor of Operations Management
Faculty Director, International Programs
Subject Area(s):
Operations Management, Strategy and Business Economics
Biography:
Gary Scudder specializes in the field of Operations Management and Strategy. Prior to coming to Owen in 1990, Professor Scudder served as an Associate Professor of Operations and Management Science at the Curtis L. Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. Scudder has also been a visiting Professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. His research interests include business strategy and operations management. In March 2004, Professor Scudder was named Associate Dean at the Owen School, where his teaching excellence earned him the Dean's Teaching Award in 1994 and the James E. Webb Teaching Award in 1999. Through the course of his career, Professor Scudder has consulted with a number of large corporations including United Airlines, 3M, IDS, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Philips Corporation, Motorola, Novartis, RR Donnelly, Air Products, the Methodist General Board of Discipleship, and Bridgestone/Firestone primarily in the areas of managing new product development and strategic planning. Professor Scudder's research has been widely published and he makes frequent presentations to professional organizations. He was recently awarded the Wickham Skinner Award for Best Paper at the annual conference of the Production and Operations Management Society in Savannah, Georgia and the Stan Hardy Award for outstanding paper pulbished in POM in 2006. Professor Scudder has recently left the dean's office and will return to the faculty on January 1, 2009 and will remain Facutly Director of Interntational Programs.
Education:
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1974
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1975
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Stanford University, 1981
Course(s) Taught:
- MGT 572: Strategic Management of Technology
- MGT 475: Operations Strategy
- MGT 558: International Seminar: Italy
- MGT 418: Marketing, Operations and Strategy
- MGT 355: Strategic Management
- MGT 557: Doing Business in Brazil
Research Interest(s):
Business strategy and operations management
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