Principles of Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management (10th Global Edition)

About The Author

Barry Render

Dr. Barry Render is now the Charles Harwood Professor of Operations Management Emeritus at the Rollins College Graduate School of Business. He would call it “semi-retirement” from academia, given that he still spends over 20 hours a week working on his textbooks and all that it entails! He can honestly say that he has loved every minute of his academic career, from being a doctoral student (teaching statistics and MIS at the University of Cincinnati) to his 8 years at the University of New Orleans, 7 at George Mason (where he held the GM Foundation Chair in Decision Sciences), 2 Fulbrights to Nepal, and the past 20 years at Rollins College.

Interspersed with his academic career, Dr. Render also worked in the aerospace industry for GE’s Jet Engine Division, NASA (at the DC headquarters), and Boeing.

Chuck Munson

Dr. Chuck Munson is a Professor of Operations Management, at the Carson College of Business, Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington. His masters and Ph.D. are in operations management, from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr Munson was Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at Washington State for 2 years and worked for3 years as a financial analyst for Contel Telephone Corporation.
He is currently a senior editor for Production and Operations Management, and serves on the editorial review board of 4 other journals. His 25+ articles have appeared in such journals as IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Interfaces. He is also editor of the book The Supply Chain Management Casebook, and have co-authored Quantity Discounts: An Overview and Practical Guide for Buyers and Sellers.

Jay Heizer

Dr. Jay Heizer is a Professor Emeritus, holding the Jesse Jones Chair of Business Administration at Texas Lutheran University. He received two degrees from the University of North Texas and a Ph.D. in Management and Statistics from Arizona State University, and CPIM certification from APICS. Before his academic career, Jau served in the US Army as a production planner at Westinghouse, and then in the Engineering Department at General Dynamics.

For many years he was also President of the consulting firm, Operations Management, Inc. Before joining Texas Lutheran, he was on the faculties of the University of Memphis, the University of Richmond, and the University of Oklahoma. He served as Chairman of the Management Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. His teaching has taken him to assignments in Germany, Italy, and the Czech Republic. During one of these assignments, he met Barry, which was the precursor to a long friendship and collaboration on books.