Faculty - Management Sciences

James Hill

Associate Professor of Management Sciences

Education

Ph.D., The Ohio State University
MBA, Case Western Reserve University
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Dayton

Areas of Expertise

• Manufacturing and planning and control systems
• Supply chain management

Biography

Professor Hill joined the Fisher faculty in 2004, after teaching graduate courses at the Owen graduate school of Management at Vanderbilt University. Currently Hill teaches the core MBA course in operations management at Fisher, and he teaches elective courses in operations planning and control and supply chain management. Hill is primarily interested in research on operations planning and control specializing in improving efficiency in process industry environments and behavioral contracts within supply chains. His articles have appeared in Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Interfaces, Journal of Business Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research and the International Journal of Production Research. Hill has extensive work experience with Pepsi Co. as a production manager and supplier development manager.