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Nicholas C. Petruzzi

Associate Professor of Business Administration and
Gutman Teaching Excellence Fellow and Academic Director MBA Programs

Educational Background

Ph.D., Operations Management, Purdue University, 1995
M.S., Systems Analysis and Management, George Washington University, 1991
B.S., Physics, College of William and Mary, 1989

Positions Held

Academic Director, MBA Programs, University of Illinois, 2007 - Present
Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois, 2004 - Present
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois, 1996-2004
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Purdue University, 1995-1996

Recent Publications

Petruzzi, N., Wee, K., Dada, M. Forthcoming. The Newsvendor Model with Consumer Search Costs. Production and Operations Management

Wu, C., Petruzzi, N., Chhajed, D. 2007. Vertical Integration with Price-Setting Competitive Newsvendors. Decision Sciences, 38: 581-610

Dada, M., Petruzzi, N., Schwarz, L. 2007. A Newsvendor's Procurement Problem When Suppliers are Unreliable. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 9: 9-32

Honors and Awards

Best Lecturer Award, Warsaw-Illinois Executive MBA, 2009
Gutman Teaching Excellence Fellow, College of Business, UIUC, 2006 to present
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, UIUC, 1997-2009
Best Lecturer Award, Warsaw-Illinois Executive MBA, 2008
Best Lecturer Award, Warsaw-Illinois Executive MBA, 2007
Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching, UIUC, 2006
MBA Professor of the Year, UIUC, 2006
MBA Professor of the Year, UIUC, 2005
Meritorious Service Award, Operations Research, 2005

Service Activities

Associate Editor, Management Science, Present
Associate Editor, Decision Sciences, 2007-Present
Associate Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2007-Present
Vice President of Meetings and Communications, MSOM Society, 2006-2007

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaches courses in operations management, manufacturing planning and control, design and management of service systems, and project management.

Research interests include pricing models in operations management, stochastic inventory theory, the operations/marketing interface, and supply chain coordination.

 

Contact Information:

4015 BIF
515 East Gregory Drive
Champaign, IL, 61820
(217) 333-9578
petruzzi@illinois.edu


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