Christian Blanco

Christian Blanco is an assistant professor of operations management at the Fisher College of Business. He joined the Operations and Business Analytics department (formerly Management Sciences) after receiving his Ph.D. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2017. His research domain is sustainable operations management. His research has been published in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Risk Analysis, Energy Policy, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, and Business Horizons. 

Blanco uses data and text analytics to examine business and environmental problems. 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. 

Prior to pursuing his Ph.D. at UCLA, Blanco was part of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at UC Berkeley. He collaborated with a team of scientists in developing a model called “SWITCH” that identifies the least-cost combination of energy technologies that will provide low-carbon electricity in 11 western states.

Awards

• 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)

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  Areas of Interest

• Sustainable operations management
• Carbon footprinting in supply chains
• Impact of risk assessments on safety
• Energy production and technology management

[9] Blanco, C. (2022). A classification of carbon abatement opportunities of global firms. Forthcoming in M&SOM.

[8] Park, H., Blanco C., Bendoly, E. (2022). Vessel sharing and its impact on maritime operations and carbon emissions. Forthcoming in 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.

[4] Ball, G., Bavafa, H., Blanco, C., Park, H., and Wowak, K. Female consumers and serious product recalls in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. Under review at POM.

[3] Bavafa, H., Blanco, C., and Noh, I. Investigating the quality effects of the U.S. Generic Drug User Fee Amendments: Evidence from product recalls. In preparation for submission to Management Science.

[2] Donnelly, G., Blanco, C., Spanbauer, C., and Stienecker, S. The Effects of Aesthetic Distortion on Consumer Disposal Decisions. Major revision at the Journal of Association for Consumer Research.    

[1] Blanco, C., Ozdemir, O., and Akyildirim, E. Corporate carbon emissions reduction targets. In preparation for submission.