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Robert C. Carlson
Professor
Management Science and Engineering
and, by courtesy, Graduate School of Business

Office: Terman 311 | Phone: 650-723-9110 | Fax: 650-723-1614
Email: r.c.carlson @ stanford.edu

 
Robert C. Carlson is a professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and is a former chair of the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department.  In addition, he is a Professor by Courtesy in the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.  He has held visiting faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Amos Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College, and at the International Management Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.  He worked as a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in the Operations Analysis and Economic Studies Center.  He was the founding Co-Director of the International Manufacturing Policy Seminar offered at the International Management Institute in Geneva.

He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS and PhD in Operations Research from The Johns Hopkins University.  He has published approximately sixty articles and technical reports in such journals as Operations Research, Management Science, IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, OMEGA, Journal of Operations Management, Operations Research Letters, Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, and Journal of Financial  and Quantitative Analysis.  He has created and conducted numerous executive seminars in the United States and in England, Germany, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Japan, Spain, and Canada

His primary areas of interest for both teaching and research are production and capacity planning, new product development, and manufacturing strategy.  Professor Carlson has consulted for several private firms and public organizations in the areas of the management of new product development, manufacturing strategy, scheduling, facilities planning, and cost analysis.  He is the recipient of the prestigious School of Engineering Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Eugene L. Grant Teaching Award.

 

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