Faculty Profiles
Damian Beil
Damian Beil joined Tauber Leadership in July 2017 as Business School Co-Director. Professor Beil had been an integral part of the Tauber community for several years as a faculty advisor for award-winning Tauber teams, and considers Tauber to be "one of the best things U-M has to offer students and faculty." As Professor of Technology and Operations, Dr. Beil teaches the MBA operations management core and advises graduate student groups in collaborative projects with private industry. Beil was named one of the Top 40 Professors Under 40 in 2015 by PoetsandQuants.com, a website devoted to the coverage of business education. READ MORE >
Stephanie Tharp
Alumna StephanieTharp returns to U-M after serving as Program Chair of Industrial Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Design. She currently runs a design studio that produces commercial and speculative products, and is the recipient of several design awards. READ MORE >
Hyun-Soo Ahn
Dr. Hyun-Soo Ahn is Professor of Technology and Operations at the Ross School of Business and the Faculty Director of the Master in Supply Chain Management Program. His teaching awards include the 2012 Exec MBA teaching excellence award, 2012 Global MBA teaching excellence award, and 2006 BBA teaching excellence award. READ MORE >
Mark Daskin
"I think that IOEs will continue to be employed in traditional IOE fields such as manufacturing and transportation systems as well as consulting. In addition, a growing number will be addressing new emerging critical issues in healthcare, energy, national security, and education. There are critical problems in each of these areas and IOEs will have an important role to play in the resolution of these problems." READ MORE >
R. Eugene Goodson
"Students are hungry for real stuff. So touring plants and assessing them is something they really embrace. It is real, not theory. Having an experience where they can go out into the industrial world and be capable of assessing it is something they value. I hear from students who took the RPA course at Michigan saying they use it all the time. I have been around long enough that I have seen the pendulum go back and forth. The educational process tends to go naturally to theory but students move to “how does this really work?” READ MORE >
Sridhar Kota
Professor Sridhar Kota has a rewarding career as the Herrick Professor of Engineering in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan and serves on the Executive Committee for the Tauber Institute for Global Operations. A career highlight was serving as the Assistant Director for Advanced Manufacturing under President Obama and developing policy recommendations and implementation strategies to enhance U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and foster innovation-based manufacturing of emerging technologies. Learn about Prof. Kota's many interests, his thoughts on who makes a good engineering student, and what class he would really like to teach. READ MORE >
William S. Lovejoy
William S. Lovejoy is a noted researcher, educator and author whose research interests focus on managing across functional boundaries, innovation, and health care. Lovejoy's integrated product development course (taught jointly with the School of Engineering and the School of Art & Design) has enjoyed coverage by CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Businessweek. READ MORE >
Lisa Pawlik
"Leadership experience in operations, planning, supply chain, and as a program management executive in the automotive industry, prepared me well to teach at Ross and to advise action-based learning teams."
Lisa Pawlik teaches business communication, and enjoys advising students tackling real-world problems for both the Ross MBA MAP program and the Tauber Institute’s14-week team projects. READ MORE >
Prakash Sathe
Dr. Prakash Sathe brings extensive leadership experience from the automotive industry to his work as a IOE lecturer and Tauber team project advisor. His automotive work spans 25 years, both at OEMs and at first tier suppliers. His experience includes Director of Reliability for Electrical Steering at TRW, Director of Warranty and Reliability at Chrysler, Volkswagen, ALPS, Donnelly Mirrors, Behr, and Continental Automotive Systems. Sathe says, "I look at how I can help [students] relate to the real-world of industry with everything I teach." READ MORE >
Brian Talbot
Thirty-nine years ago, Brian Talbot gave up a high profile job in the private sector to pursue a career in academia at the University of Michigan. His current research focuses on the development of heuristic and optimal solution procedures for production and manpower planning, vehicle loading and resource-constrained scheduling. He is also investigating issues in industrial ecology, green manufacturing and sustainable supply chains. READ MORE >