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December 5, 2000
Washington Monarch Hotel
The Japan International Transport Institute under the
Auspices of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
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Japan International Tranport Institute
SARAH AYERS
1819 L STREET, N.W. SUITE 1000
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
PHONE:+1- 202-833-9763
FAX: +1-202-833-9769
jiti@japantransport.com
www.japantransport.com
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Activities of our institute are made possible through the generous assistance of the Nippon Foundation. |
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Roy D. Shapiro
Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration
Faculty Chair, Technology and Operations Management
Harvard Business School
Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He currently serves as the faculty co-chair of the Technology and Operations Management Unit. From 1995 - 1997, he chaired the Program for Management Development, the School's executive program for top functional-level executives with 10 to 20 years of business experience, and from 1997 - 2000, he served as faculty chair for the required MBA course Technology and Operations Management. He has taught courses in supply chain management as well as in Harvard University's Economics Department.
Professor Shapiro graduated from M.I.T. with an S.B. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Operations Research, and an E.E. in Electrical Engineering. After some time designing computer models for radar tracking with Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., he spent several years as an associate with Control Analysis Corp., a small Palo Alto, California-based consulting firm while obtaining a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University.
Professor Shapiro's primary research and teaching interests are in the areas of operations strategy and supply chain management. He is the author of seven books, including textbooks in both optimization models and service strategy, and of casebooks in both operations research and logistics strategy. He has written numerous case studies, and his articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Interfaces, and others.
Professor Shapiro has designed and/or taught executive programs for companies including Arthur Andersen, Ciba-Geigy, General Electric, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Sara Lee, and Unilever. He has served as a consultant in both the public and private sectors: for Boston's Children's Hospital, the states of New York and California, and the Steel Service Center Institute; and for firms including Barilla, Eastman Kodak, Italtel, Johnson & Johnson, Frito-Lay, Perkin Elmer, and others. In addition to his activities in the U.S., Professor Shapiro has designed and taught executive programs and consulted in the U.K., Finland, France, Hong Kong, Italy, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, and Japan.
Professor Shapiro lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife Deborah. Younger son Ethan (21), currently a junior at Georgia Tech, and older son Seth (28), a graduate of Tulane University, both live in Atlanta. Dog Papillon prefers not to disclose her age.
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