John Gray
Management Sciences Faculty
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Assistant Professor of Operations
| e-mail: | gray.402@osu.edu |
| phone: | (614) 247-8021 |
| fax: | (614) 292-1272 |
| address: | 612 Fisher Hall
Fisher College of Business 2100 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 |
Education
Ph.D., Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina
MBA, Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University
BA, Dartmouth College
BE, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College
Areas of Expertise
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Manufacturing outsourcing and offshoring
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Sustainability of quality management, ISO 9000
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Empirical Research in Operations Management
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Operations strategy
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Global Sourcing
Biography
John’s dissertation, Essays on Manufacturing Outsourcing, was awarded the Juran Fellowship from the Juran Center at the University of Minnesota, and was also the winner of the Decision Science Institute’s 2007 Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Competition. His current research examines the hard-to-measure and long-term performance implications of outsourcing and offshoring, with a focus on quality. He is also examining the sustainability of quality management programs over time. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, the Journal of Supply Chain Management and the 2009 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. He serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He teaches an MBA elective called “Global Sourcing” at Fisher College and has co-authored a case (Scotts Miracle-Gro: The Spreader Sourcing Decision). In 2008, he led a group of MBA students on a “Global Sourcing” elective trek to China. Prior to pursuing a PhD, Dr. Gray worked at Procter & Gamble in operations management for eight years. During his tenure, he implemented a plant-wide daily management system which is still in use, and as department manager improved the performance of the 50-person, multi-million unit anti-perspirant/deodorant making operation.
