Christian Blanco
Background
Christian Blanco is an associate professor of operations management at the Fisher College of Business. He joined the Operations and Business Analytics department after receiving his Ph.D. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research domain is sustainable operations management. His research has been published in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Risk Analysis, and Energy Policy.
Blanco looks at corporate investments that avoid waste and pollution. His recent works examine how firms design carbon targets. He is interested in causal inference and text analytics. He is among the first scholars in his field to apply text analytics in sustainable OM. He has also implemented text analysis in other domains of OM, such as pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Awards
- OSU Sustainable Supply Chain Grant 2022 (PI: Christian Blanco and James Hill; $16,500)
- FDA Broad Agency Announcement: Quality management and drug quality risks
(PI: John Gray and George Ball 2019-2021; $1.74M) - National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Convergent Graduate Training and EmPOWERment
for a Sustainable Energy Future (PI: Ramteen Sioshansi 2019-2024; $2.98M) - OSU Fisher Leadership Research Grant 2020 (PI: Elliot Bendoly; $6,875)
- FDA and the NIPTE, Manufacturing Sector Research Initiative sub-award (PI: John Gray 2017-2020)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2011-2014)
- UCLA Anderson Doctoral Fellowship (2012-2016)
- UCLA Easton Technology Leadership Program (Summer 2014; 2015)
- UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management Award (Summer 2014)
- NETL DoE Research Grant $125,000 (co-authored grant with Jay Apt 2012-2014)
- UC LEADS Professional Development Grant (UC Berkeley 2010-2011)
Areas of Interest
- Sustainable operations management
- Carbon footprinting in supply chains
- Impact of risk assessments on safety
- Energy production and technology management
Areas of Expertise
- Production/Operations Management
- Operations Strategy
- Technology Management
- Sustainability/Corporate Responsibility
Education
- PhD, UCLA Anderson School of Management (2017)
- AB, Applied Mathematics, UC Berkeley (2011)
- AB, Environmental Economics and Policy, UC Berkeley (2011)
Publications
[11] Ball, G., Bavafa, H., Blanco, C., Park, H., Wowak, K. (2025). Gender and serious drug recalls: A textual sentiment analysis of drug reviews on WebMD. Production and Operations Management.
[10] Donnelly, G., Blanco, C., Spanbauer, C., and Stienecker, S. (2023). The effects of item dirtiness on disposal decisions. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research.
[9] Blanco, C. (2022). A classification of carbon abatement opportunities of global firms. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
[8] Park, H., Blanco C., Bendoly, E. (2022). Vessel sharing and its impact on maritime operations and carbon emissions. Production and Operations Management.
[7] Blanco, C. (2021). Supply chain carbon footprinting and climate change disclosures of global firms. Production and Operations Management.
[6] Bendoly, E., Bachrach, D. G., Esper, T. L., Blanco, C., Iversen, J., & Yin, Y. (2021). Operations in the upper echelons: Leading sustainability through stewardship. International Journal of Operations & Production Management.
[5] Blanco, C., Caro, F., & Corbett, C. J. (2020). Do carbon abatement opportunities become less profitable over time? A global firm-level perspective using CDP data. Energy Policy, 138, 111252.
[4] Blanco, C., Caro, F., & Corbett, C. J. (2019). Managing safety‐related disruptions: Evidence from the US nuclear power industry. Risk Analysis, 39(10), 2197-2213.
[3] Blanco, C., Caro, F., & Corbett, C. J. (2017). An inside perspective on carbon disclosure. Business Horizons, 60(5), 635-646.
[2] Blanco, C., Caro, F., & Corbett, C. J. (2016). The state of supply chain carbon footprinting: Analysis of CDP disclosures by US firms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 135, 1189-1197.
[1] Nelson, J., Johnston, J., Mileva, A., Fripp, M., Hoffman, I., Petros-Good, A., Blanco, C., and Kammen, D. M. (2012). High-resolution modeling of the western North American power system demonstrates low-cost and low-carbon futures. Energy Policy, 43, 436-447.
Working Papers
[1] Blanco, C., Ozdemir, O., and Akyildirim, E. Ambiguous carbon targets. Major revision in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
[2] Blanco, C., Corbett, C., and Caro, F. An exploratory analysis of variation in
payback periods of emissions reduction projects using CDP disclosures. Under review at Production and Operations Management.
[3] Chun, S., Blanco, C., Hill, J. A Ranking of social sustainability issues. In preparation for submission.
[4] Duo, G., Blanco, C., Esenduran, G.. Environmental and economic impacts of pooled and seprate carbon targets. In preparation for submission.
[5] Karacaoglu, N., Blanco, C., Caro, F. When shelves are empty: The online impact of offline stockouts. In preparation for submission.
[6] Blanco, C., do Rego Ferreira Lima, M., Dhanorkar, S. The impact of import restrictions on the US recycling market: Evidence and interventions. In preparation for submission.
Courses
- BUSOBA 7253 - Sustainable Operations
- Reviews several sustainable operations strategy models and examines different ways of adopting eco-efficiency principles into business operations through waste reduction and design for recovery. Highlights factors that promote these efforts, such as environmental laws and product returns. Prereq: MBA 6233.
- MBA 6233 - Operations Management
- Operations Management (MBA 6233) is designed to provide a solid foundation and deeper understanding of how the operations function contributes to ensuring effective and efficient flow of materials and information within and outside the organization. Prereq: Enrollment in MBA, or permission of instructor.
- BUSOBA 4998 - Undergraduate Research in Management Sciences
- Undergraduate Research in Management Sciences for non-honors students. Prereq: BusAdm 2291 (499), and Jr standing, and permission of instructor. This course is progress graded.
- BUSOBA 8237 - Service Operations II
- Doctoral research seminar: Critical analysis of research in healthcare operations, retail operations, and IT service operations, sharing economies. Prereq: Enrollment in BusAdm PhD program.
- BUSOBA 8240 - Operations Method I
- Doctoral research seminar: critical analysis of philosophy of science, qualitative/case study research, survey-based research, research employing secondary data sources. Prereq: Enrollment in BusAdm PhD program.
- BUSOBA 8235 - Fundamentals of Operational Excellence
- Doctoral research seminar: Critical analysis of research in quality management, lean, six sigma, designing operations to support and sustain innovation, integrating technology into operations. Prereq: Enrollment in BusAdm PhD program.