Drs. Jay Heizer and Barry Render have been colleagues and great friends for over four decades. In 1983, when Barry was Chairman of George Mason University’s Decision Sciences Department and Jay was a Professor at the University of Richmond, they wrote the first edition of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Fifteen editions and 42 years later, their book is the best-selling text in its discipline. With over two million copies in print, the book is available in a US edition, a Canadian edition, a global edition, an Indian edition, and has been translated into Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese, and other languages. Their texts are not only leaders in sales, but in pedagogical advances as well, with many firsts.
Starting with the 12th edition of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Dr. Chuck Munson has joined the Heizer/Render team. Jay and Barry are thrilled to have a scholar and teacher of his breadth of knowledge on-board.
The Heizer/Render/Munson text team is the first to create a series (of over 50) custom made video cases dealing with well-known companies. They are the first to create problem solving software (Excel OM and POM for Windows) and to provide it free to students. They also created “Virtual Office Hours,” a series of 90 short (5-20 minute) videos of the authors explaining each of the models introduced in the text. Their MyLab Operations Management assessment system is an all-encompassing teaching and learning tool that has dramatically improved the education of OM students. The text is also the first interactive digital book, with readers encouraged to adjust graphs, answer questions, watch video clips for each topic, and use five simulation models tied to the book.
Barry Render
I’m now the Charles Harwood Professor of Operations Management Emeritus, at the Rollins College Graduate School of Business. I would call it “semi-retirement” from academia, given that I still spend about 10 hours a week working on our text, blogs and podcasts and all that they entail! I can honestly say that I have loved every minute of my academic career, from being a doctoral student (teaching statistics and MIS at the University of Cincinnati) to my eight years at the University of New Orleans, seven at George Mason (where I held the GM Foundation Chair in Decision Sciences), two Fulbrights to Nepal, and the past 20 years at Rollins College.
Interspersed with my academic career, I also worked in the aerospace industry, for GE’s Jet Engine Division, NASA (at the DC headquarters), and Boeing. You may notice in the blog that I follow that industry with personal interest.
I have not only enjoyed writing these operations books, but have coauthored other texts at Pearson, including Quantitative Analysis for Management (now in 14th ed.), Introduction to Management Science, Managerial Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets (now in 4th edition), Service Management and Operations, and four others.
I have also kept busy serving on several Boards of Directors–from a non-profit seniors housing complex, to a startup software firm, to a publicly traded (NASDAQ) manufacturer.
Contact me: ProfRender@gmail.com
I am a Professor Emeritus, holding the Jesse Jones Chair of Business Administration, at Texas Lutheran University. I 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. Prior to my academic career, I served in the US Army, worked as a production planner at Westinghouse, and then in the Engineering Department at General Dynamics. For many years
I was also President of the consulting firm, Operations Management, Inc. Before joining Texas Lutheran, I was on the faculties of the University of Memphis, University of Oklahoma, University of Richmond, and served as Chairman of the Management Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. My teaching has taken me to assignments in Italy, Germany, and the Czech Republic. It was during one of these assignments that I met Barry, which was the precursor to a long friendship and collaboration on textbooks. I now devote much of my time to our Pearson textbooks in Operations and Supply Chain Management.
Contact me: j.h963@yahoo.com
Chuck Munson
I am Professor of Operations Management and Carson College of Business, Ph.D. Program Director at Washington State University, in Pullman, Washington. I received my BSBA summa cum laude in finance, along with my MSBA and Ph.D. in operations management, from Washington University in St. Louis. For three years, I worked as a financial analyst for Contel Telephone Corporation.
I served for 15 years as a senior editor for the journal Production and Operations Management, and I currently serve on the editorial review board of five other journals. My 30+ articles have appeared in such journals as Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Annals of Operations Research. I am also editor of the book The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage and Best Practices in SCM, and I have co-authored the research monographs Quantity Discounts: An Overview and Practical Guide for Buyers and Sellers and Predictive Global Sensitivity Analysis: Foundational Concepts, Tools, and Applications. I am also a coauthor of Managerial Decision Modeling: Business Analytics with Spreadsheets (4th edition).
I teach operations management courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. levels and have served as Ph.D. dissertation chair for 15 students. I have also conducted several teaching workshops at international conferences and for Ph.D. students at Washington State University. In 2016, I was granted the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award, the highest teaching honor at WSU. I have won the WSU Carson College of Business Outstanding Teaching Award (twice), the Service Award (thrice), the WSU MBA Professor of the Year Award, and the Outstanding Research Award. In 2004, I was named a founding board member of the WSU President’s Teaching Academy.
Contact me: Munson@wsu.edu
The 15th edition of our text included the valued input from two scholars who will be a part of our team going forward: Professors Jon Jackson and Misty Blessley.
Jon Jackson
I am an Associate Professor of Operations Management at Providence College in Rhode Island, where I also serve as Faculty Director of the Master’s in Business Analytics program. I earned my Ph.D. in Operations Management from Washington State University and have consulted in the telecommunications and education sectors. My research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Business Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Journal of Production Economics. I teach operations and analytics courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels and am a three-time recipient of the Providence College School of Business MBA Faculty Teaching Award.
Contact me: jjackso9@providence.edu
Misty Blessley
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics, Operations and Data Science at Temple University. I have a Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from Temple University, an MBA from St. Joseph’s University, and a B.S. in Business Logistics from Penn State University. I hold the Association for Supply Chain Management’s Certification in Production and Inventory Management.
Before entering academia, I spent 12 years in industry working for manufacturers in the sensors, television transmitter, and fiber optic cable sectors. My research is published in leading academic journals, and I am recipient of the Fox School’s Excellence in Practice Research Award. I teach courses in operations and supply chain management and have received the Dean’s Teaching Fellow Award while serving as the Academic Director of the Supply Chain Management Program.
Contact me: misty.blessley@temple.edu
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