Time-based competition, accelerating the new product development process, and sustainable supply chains
Operations Management & Quantitative Methods
Joe was a Founder’s
Medalist at Vanderbilt, a Fellow in the Production and Operations Management
Society, and winner of the Outstanding Professor award in the Executive MBA
program. He also won the Jo Van Nunen Prize for Pioneering Research in Sustainable Supply Chains from the Closed-Loop Supply Chain Research Society in 2016.
Joe
has sat on the editorial boards of Production
and Operations Management Journal, and the Journal of Operations Management. He also served as President and member of the Executive Board of the Production and Operations Management Society.
Joe
has been published in numerous journals, including Decision Sciences, Production
and Operations Management, Management
Science, and the Journal of
Operations Management. He is also the author of Time-Based Competition: The Next Battleground in American
Manufacturing.
Joe began his career working as a Chemical Engineer for Eastman Kodak.
Joe is an authority on time-based competition, accelerating the new product development process, and sustainable supply chains.
Ph.D, Operations Research, Stanford University, 1971
M.S, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, 1964
B.S, Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 1963
Blackburn, J. (2012). Valuing Time in Supply Chains: Establishing Limits of Time-based Competition, Journal of Operations Management, 30, 5, 396-405.
Bischak, D.P, Robb, D.L., Silver, E.A., and Blackburn, J.D. (2012). Analysis and Management of Periodic Review, Order-up-to Level Inventory Systems with Order Crossover, in review at Production and Operations Management.
Fang, X., Zhang, C., Robb, D.J. and Blackburn, J. (2012). Decision Support for Lead Time and Demand Variability Reduction, Omega (in press).
Galbreth, M. and Blackburn, J.D. (2010). Optimal Acquisition Quantities in Remanufacturing with Condition Uncertainty, Production and Operations Management, 19, 1, 61-69.
Galbreth, M. and Blackburn, J.D. (2010). Offshore Remanufacturing with Variable Used Product Condition. Decision Sciences, 41,1,5-20.
Blackburn, J.D. and G.D. Scudder (2009), Supply Chain Strategies for Perishable Products: The Case of Fresh Produce, Production and Operations Management, 18,2,129-137.
Souza, G.C., Guide, V.D., Van Wassenhove, L.N. % Blackburn, J.D. (2006). Time Value of Commercial Product Returns. Management Science, 52, 8, 1200-1214.
Galbreth, M. andn Blackburn, J.D. (2006). Managing Variable Used Product Condition: Optimal Sorting Policies for Remanufacturing. Production and Operations Management, 15, 3, 384-392.
Blackburn, J.D., Guide, V.D., Souza, G.C. & Van Wassenhove, L.N. (2004). Reverse Supply Chains for Commercial Returns. California Management Review, vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 1-17.