Rob Handfield

Bank of America Professor of Supply Management, College of Management
North Carolina State University

Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, and Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative . He also serves as Faculty Lead for the Manufacturing Analytics group within the International Institute of Analytics, and is on the Faculty for Operations Research Curriculum at NC State University. The SCRC is the first major industry-university partnership to integrate student projects into the MBA classroom in an integrative fashion, and has had 15 major Fortune 500 companies participating as industry partners since 1999. Handfield is the Consulting Editor of the Journal of Operations Management. He has co-authored textbooks for MBA and undergraduate classes. Handfield received the Emerald Citation of Excellence award in 2011 and again in 2013, for two articles, each cited as one of the top 50 articles from the 300 top management publications worldwide that have had a proven impact since they were published. In 2009, he was nominated as an Honorary Fellow of Contract & Commercial Management (FCCM) by the International Association of Commercial and Contract Management. His blog, Supply Chain View from the Field (http://scm.ncsu.edu/blog) was listed as the #3 top business school blogs by OnlineMBA.com. Handfield has consulted with over 25 Fortune 500 companies, and has published more than 100 articles in top management journals.

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Day 2: Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Thursday, April 9th, 2015

08:45 Opening Keynote: Incorporating Interwoven Trends In Business, Economics, And Government To Produce Unexpected Innovation

Global megatrends are producing changes in the world economy. Some of these trends impact directly on supply management (e.g. pressure on natural resources) while others first impact business models (e.g. changing consumer landscape) and then cascade down to supply management. This session will identify some of these external trends and help you understand how the interaction of trends, business models and supply strategies can lead to new opportunities for value creation.