ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Ricardo Ernst is a professor at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University and co-director of its Global Logistics Research Program. His contributions have appeared in prestigious journals, including Management Science, Interfaces, European Journal of Operational Research Society, International Journal of Operations & Production Management. He is the co-author of a book, Global Operations and Logistics (John Wiley and Sons 1998).

He has consulted with several national and international firms including General Motors, CASE Corporation, Fairchild Industries, Fritz Companies, Michelin and The World Bank. He is known in Europe for his collaboration with the French train company SNCF, with whom he evaluated the logistics impact in Europe of the channel tunnel's opening.

He holds a Civil Engineering degree from Universidad Catelica Andres Bello and an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Suuperiores de Adminstracion, both in Venezuela. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in operations management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.


Dr. Kuldeep Kumar is Professor and Ryder Eminent Scholar in Decision Sciences and Information at Florida International University's College of Business Administration. He is also the Professor of Information Systems at the Rotterdam School of Management, Faculty of Business Erasmus University, in the Netherlands.

Currently, Dr. Kumar serves on the executive committee for the International Conference on Information Systems and on the editorial boards for Information Systems Journal, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Global IT, and Vision: The Indian Journal of Management.

His research has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Information Systems, Economia and Management, and Informatie.

He received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, an MBA in Information Systems from McMaster University at Ontario, Canada and a Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Systems from McMaster University at Hamilton, Canada.


Dr. Hau L. Lee is Kleiner Perkins Mayfield, Sequoia Capital professor of the department of management science and engineering and professor of operations, information and technology at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is the founding and current director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum at Eindhoven University.

Dr. Lee's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard Company, Sloan Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Lucent Technologies, Andersen Consulting, Intuit, KPMG, Intel Corporation, and the State of California. He has published widely in journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, and IIE Transactions, to name a few.

Dr. Lee received his B.S. from Hong Kong University, M.S. from the London School of Economics and Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.