Warren H. Hausman Professor Management Science and Engineering Office: Terman 312 | Phone: 650-723-9279 | Fax: 650-723-1614 Email: hausman @ stanford.edu

Warren H. Hausman is Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is an Affiliated Faculty member with Stanford’s Global Supply Chain Forum and with the Department’s Operations Research Program; he also holds a Courtesy Faculty Appointment in Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Professor Hausman is currently studying how RFID technology can revolutionize the management of supply chains. He is investigating the value of RFID applications in retail environments, in logistics, and in manufacturing and assembly operations. He is also studying how operational improvements in retail supply chains affect a company’s financial performance and market capitalization.

Professor Hausman has performed numerous research studies in supply chain management and operations management. He is the author or co-author of more than fifty technical articles on these subjects that have appeared in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, and IIE Transactions. He is also a co-author of Quantitative Analysis for Management, a popular textbook now in its Ninth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 1997).

Professor Hausman is an active consultant to industry and is involved in numerous executive education programs both at Stanford and around the world. He was the founding director of a two-day executive program on Integrated Supply Chain Management held semi-annually in Palo Alto, California from 1994 to 2003. His consulting clients represent the following industries: general manufacturing, electronics, computers, consumer products, food & beverage, transportation, healthcare, and high technology. He is also a co-founder of Supply Chain Online, which provides web-based corporate supply chain management training. He serves on the technical advisory boards of several Silicon Valley startups, and is on the Board of Directors of SupplyChainge, Inc.

Professor Hausman served as the Departmental Editor for Logistics for Management Science from 1974 to 1982. In 1994 he was elected President of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). He has also served on the Board of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and on several National Science Foundation Advisory Panels and Committees. He was recently named a Fellow of both INFORMS and MSOM (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society). He has also won several teaching awards, including the Eugene Grant Teaching Award in Stanford’s School of Engineering in 1998.

Professor Hausman served as Department Chair for the Industrial Engineering – Engineering Management Department at Stanford from 1982 to 1992. He earned a BA in Economics from Yale and a Ph.D. from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management.