Professor Donald Rosenfield, M.I.T. Sloan School of Management

Donald Rosenfield is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management, and is Director of the Leaders for Manufacturing Fellows Program (a dual degree Master’s program run by the School of Management and the School of Engineering in partnership with leading global corporations). He is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities in Manufacturing Operations Strategy and Supply Chain Management.

He has served at M.I.T. since 1980 as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Visiting Associate Professor. He has also served on the faculties of Harvard Business School, the State University of New York, and Boston University. Dr. Rosenfield has helped make the Leaders for Manufacturing Program a groundbreaking program in manufacturing education. At M.I.T., he has developed courses in Manufacturing Strategy, Operations Management, and International Logistics. Prior to joining M.I.T., Dr. Rosenfield served on the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc. from 1976-1988, focusing in the areas of Logistics and Manufacturing Strategy.

Dr. Rosenfield has worked principally in the areas of Manufacturing Strategy and Supply Chain Management. He has worked extensively with a variety of world-class corporations in solving problems related to Manufacturing Strategy, Operations Strategy, and Supply Chain Management, and has also conducted a variety of research activities in these areas. He has directed numerous studies in such areas as facility location and logistics strategy. He has also conducted a substantial number of management development seminars in the US and abroad.

Dr. Rosenfield has a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics, a Master’s of Science in Operations Research and an Electrical Engineering Degree from M.I.T., and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University. He has written articles for a number of journals, including Harvard Business Review, Operations Research, Management Science, and Sloan Management Review. He is the co-author of Modern Logistics Management, published by John Wiley in 1985 and Operations Strategy: Competing in the 21st Century, published by Irwin McGraw Hill in May of 2007.

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