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Paolo Letizia

Paolo Letizia

Ball Corporation Professor in Business, Ray & Joan Myatt Faculty Fellow

Phone 865-974-3992

Email pletizia@utk.edu

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Location Room - 223, Stokely Management Center , Italy

Department:

Business Analytics & Statistics

Program:

Full-Time MBA

Center:

Global Supply Chain Institute

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Biography

Paolo Letizia is an associate professor of operations management and business analytics in the Department of Business Analytics and Statistics of the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is Ray & Joan Myatt Faculty Fellow. His research interests lie in the areas of sustainable operations, closed loop supply chain management, operations-marketing interface, and supply chain management.

Letizia’s work has been published in journals such as Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and European Journal of Operational Research. At conferences such as INFORMS, POMS and DSI, he has chaired the track of environmental operations and organized several sessions on sustainable operations. Letizia has been an associate editor for the Decision Sciences journal since 2019 and serves on the editorial review boards of several leading operations management journals.

Prior to joining the University of Tennessee, Letizia taught operations and supply chain management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Letizia holds a master of science in supply chain management from Kedge Business School and a doctorate with dual degrees in operations research and business administration from the Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business. Before starting his academic career, he was employed by the consulting firm Accenture and worked on projects in supply chain management, operations management, and customer relationship management.

Expertise:

Operations-Marketing Interface, Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Operations

Education:

2012 The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., Business Administration

2006 KEDGE Business School, M.Sc., Supply Chain Management

2001 University of Pavia, B.Sc and M.Sc., Electrical Engineering

Research Focus

Sustainable Operations, Operations-Marketing Interface, Operations-Information Systems Interface, Supply Chain Management.

Awards/Honors
  • ASCC Faculty Research Award, Haslam College of Business (2021).
  • Summer Research Award, Haslam College of Business (2019-2022).
  • Martin and Jean Mills Faculty Research Fellow, Haslam College of Business (2019).
  • Jeanne and Charles Rider Graduate Fellowship, Smeal College of Business (2011).
  • Dissertation Summer Stipend Award, Smeal College of Business (2011).
  • Social Innovation Centre Scholarship, INSEAD (2006, 2007).
  • IFA Scholarship, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (2000, 2001).
  • Best Scientific Undergraduate Thesis Award, University of Pavia (2001).
  • Finalist for the Best Teacher Award – MBA, Haslam College of Business (2017-2022).
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