Faculty Experts Guide
Peter T. Ward
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Peter T. Ward
Chair, Department of Management Sciences;
Richard M. Ross Chair in Management;
Professor of Operations Management;
Director, Center for Operational Excellence (COE)
Areas of expertise
Lean management
Continuous Improvement
Six Sigma
Operations strategy
Managing technology
Education
DBA, Boston University
MSBA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BBA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Biography
Professor Ward is the leading expert in lean management and is president of the Lean Education Academic Network. His research has been published in a number of journals, including Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. He is research director for the Center for Operational Excellence, associate editor of the Journal of Operations Management and Decisions Sciences. He serves as a judge for Industry Week’s Best Plants program and is on the advisory board of Ford Motor Company’s LeanResourceCenter. He developed, in partnership with Ford Motor Company, the Tomorrow’s Lean Enterprise Leadership program, a popular series of MBA courses and internships and six sigma programs for MBAs. He leads executive education certificate programs on Lean Management. He serves on the Board of Directors of Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio. Among his research honors are the Shingo Prize (2004), Best Paper awards for articles appearing in the Journal of Operations Management in 2000 and 1996, and FisherCollege’s Pace Setters Research Award for 2003.
Contact Information
614 Fisher Hall
Fisher College of Business
2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-5294
ward.1@osu.edu