Nationally Influential Operational Management Team Established at IUPUI

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana University Board of Trustees today approved the appointment of two faculty members who will have a significant impact in the teaching and research of operations management at the IU Kelley School of Business on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, announced IUPUI Chancellor Charles R. Bantz.

“With Barbara Flynn and Mark Frohlich , joining current faculty—Roger Schmenner and Mohan Tatikonda, IUPUI has established a nationally influential Operations Management team,” Bantz said.

Flynn has the most cited article, as well as the 3rd, 17th, and 20th articles during the last 20 years in Journal of Operations Management, which is considered at least one of the top two Operations Management journals. Frohlich has the 11th most cited article, Bantz noted.

Flynn is an award-winning scholar/teacher who is considered one of the top five people in her field of operations management. She received the 2005 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management and was inducted as a fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute in 2002. She has received nearly $4 million in external funding for her research, including four grants, totaling $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation, and one from the U.S. Department of Education, for $2.6 million.

Flynn earned her doctorate in business administration at IU. Since 1996, she has been on the faculty of the Wake Forest University Babcock Graduate School of Management, where she had been appointed Sisel Fellow of Operations Management in 2005. Prior to Wake Forest, she was on Iowa State’s faculty.

In addition to the international dimensions of Frohlich’s teaching and scholarship, he has had industry experience, including as a line manager with General Motors and operations manager with Pegel Arabia, Ltd. His consulting experiences include operations strategy and supply chain management, with special expertise in high tech, aerospace, and defense. For a junior scholar, his research on advanced manufacturing techniques and strategies for integrating supply chains is well recognized.

rohlich earned his D.B.A. at the Boston University School of Management and M.B.A. at UCLA. He has been assistant professor of operations and technology management at Boston University since 2002. He also has taught at the Säid Business School (Oxford University) and Scandinavian International Management Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark).