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Author

Mark A. Vonderembse earned a PhD in Business Administration from
the University of Michigan, an MBA from the Wharton Graduate Division
of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Civil Engineering from the
University of Toledo. In addition to holding the rank of Professor at the
University of Toledo (UT), he has held important leadership positions,
including Founding Director of the Intermodal Transportation Institute
and Founding Director for the School of Healthcare Innovation and
Excellence. In addition, he served six years as Chair of the Information
Operations and Technology Management Department and three years as
Chair of the Finance Department.
Dr. Vonderembse has taught courses in Germany, India, and China
and traveled extensively, giving presentations on operations and supply
chain management in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, India,
Morocco, South Africa, Spain, England, Germany, Greece, and Canada.
He and another faculty member led efforts to design and build UT’s PhD
program in Manufacturing and Technology Management, and he served
as its Director for nine years. He chaired or co-chaired twenty-two PhD
dissertations at UT and served as a member of nineteen other disserta-
tions, including eleven from outside the United States.
He is widely published, including thirteen articles in the Journal of
Operations Management, which is widely regarded as the best journal in
the field. Dr. Vonderembse has also published in Management Science,
Decision Sciences, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production
Research, and European Journal of Operational Research, among others.
He has nearly two dozen awards for his research, including Outstanding
Researcher at UT. He has held more than forty research grants from
various sources, including the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S.
Department of Education, and the National Science Foundation. He has
received more than $4 million in grants as the principal investigator and
another $10 million as co-investigator.

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