Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management
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Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management. He was also Interim Dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University from 2009-2010. From 2006 – 2009, he served as Senior Associate Dean: Curriculum and Teaching. He became a faculty member of the school in 1989. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the Stern School of Business Administration at New York University. He has a PhD in Operations Research from SUNY Stony Brook.
Professor Chopra’s research and teaching interests are in Operations Management, Logistics and Distribution Management, design of communication networks and design of distribution networks. He has co-authored the books Managing Business Process Flows and Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation. Both books are published by Prentice Hall and are used at several of the top business schools to teach Operations Management and Supply Chain Management respectively. The Supply Chain Management book was awarded the best book of the year for 2002 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). Professor Chopra has won several teaching awards at Kellogg.
He has been Departmental Editor for the journalsManagement Science and an Associate Editor for theDecision Sciences Journal, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Operations Research. His recent research has focused on risk management in supply chains. He has also studied distribution systems in a variety of companies trying to identify market, manufacturing, and product characteristics that drive the structure of a supply chain.
He has consulted for a variety of firms including Boise Cascade Office Products, GE Capital, W.W. Grainger, Motorola, Intel, and Sara Lee.
Areas of ExpertiseCycle Time ManagementManufacturingOptimizationReengineeringResponse Time ManagementSupply Chain Design and Management
EducationPhD, 1986, Operations Research, State University of New York, Stony BrookMS, 1984, Operations Research, State University of New York, Stony BrookBT, 1981, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Grants and AwardsExecutive MBA Program Outstanding Teaching Awards, Kellogg School of Management, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1999(EMP61(Core) 2005, EMP59(Core) 2005, EMP57(Core) 2004, EMP56(Core) 2004, EMP55(Core) 2003, EMP53(Core) 2003, EMP47(Core) 2001, EMP41(Core) 1999)Kellogg Alumni Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2005A-List of Management Academics, Business Educators, LLC, one year
Editorial PositionsDepartment Editor forOperations and Supply Chain Management, Management Science, 2003-2005Associate Editor, Management Science, 2000-2002Associate Editor, Operations Research, 1997-1999