Serguei Netessine is a scientist, educator, academic administrator and startup investor. He i
Senior Vice Dean for Innovation and Global Initiatives
and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Wharton School of Business,

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. Previously, he was Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at

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and the Research Director of INSEAD- Wharton alliance. He is best known for his work on Business Model Innovation, Operational Excellence and Supply Chain Management.

Early life and education

Netessine was born in Russia. In 1995 he graduated from Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology. As a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering he moved to the United States for doctoral studies in 1997. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a master's degree in Management Science in 2000 and with a doctoral degree in Operations Management in 2001. In the same year, he became a professor at the

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Career

Netessine's career at the Wharton School lasted for 10 years, including receiving indefinite tenure in 2007. In 2010 he joined the faculty of

, business school and he returned to the Wharton School in 2017. In May 2014 he became

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and

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of The Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) In 2015 he co-founded Responsible Research in Business and Management network. He also served as a research director of the

- Wharton alliance and a director of INSEAD-Wharton Center for Global Research & Education while at INSEAD. Netessine was one of the department editors for the journal ''

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'' 2012-2017, and is a regular speaker and moderator at various industry conferences, including the World Knowledge Forum.

Awards and honors

Netessine received various research and teaching awards, including: * Miller-Sherrerd Teaching Award for top students' evaluations among MBA core courses at the Wharton School (multiple times). *

Production and Operations Management ''Production and Operations Management'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on all aspects of operations management, production management, management science, supply chain management, and manufacturing engineering. It i ...

Society Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishment Award, 2005. * The 1st-place winner of Decision Sciences Institute Best Teaching Case Studies Award 2013. * The winner of Young Scholar Prize 2013 awarded to the best researcher in operations management to a person 40 years of age or younger. * Academy of Management Chan Han Best Paper in Operations Management Award 2011. *Distinguished Fellow of M&SOM Society of INFORMS, 2018.

Press coverage

Professor Netessine’s research has received media coverage in

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, Multichannel Merchant,

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Strategy+Business Strategy (from Ancient Greek, Greek στρατηγία ''stratēgia'', "troop leadership; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sens ...

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, etc. US Government Accountability Office cited his work on performance-based logistics when making recommendations for improvement of

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Bibliography

* * * * Serguei Netessine has also authored or co-authored more than 50 publications in academic journals.

References

External links

Serguei Netessine’s personal website

Serguei Netessine’s blog on Renaissance Innovation
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