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Bogdan Bichescu

Bogdan Bichescu

Associate Professor and MSBA Program Director, Southern-Peters Research Award

Location Room - 229, Stokely Management Center

Department:

Business Analytics & Statistics

Program:

Executive Education, Full-Time MBA, Professional MBA

Center:

Global Supply Chain Institute

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Biography

Bogdan C. Bichescu is an associate professor of management science in the Haslam College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He teaches operations and decision analysis classes in the M.S.B.A. program, the full-time M.B.A. program, the Ph.D. program and in the undergraduate business program. His teaching interests include lean operations, decision modeling and analysis, business simulation, and project management.

Bichescu’s research interests are concentrated in the areas of supply chain modeling and healthcare operations. More specifically, his work examines the role of channel power and subcontracting on supply chain performance, while his recent studies investigate the interplay between information technology and hospital performance. Bichescu’s research has appeared in journals including Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences,European Journal of Operational Research and Omega.

Expertise:

Applied Optimization, Healthcare Analytics, Lean Operations, Supply Chain Analytics

Education:

2006 University of Cincinnati, Ph.D., Operations Management

2005 University of Cincinnati, M.S., Quantitative Analysis

2000 Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, M.S. Project Management, Project Management

1999 Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, B.S., Management Science

Awards/Honors
  • MSBA Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018
  • MSBA Outstanding Commitment to Students Award, 2015, 2017
  • Richard C. Reizenstein Outstanding Commitment to Students Award finalist, 2016
  • MBA First Year Faculty Award, 2015
  • Allen H. Keally Outstanding Teaching Award Nominee, College of Business, University of Tennessee, 2010 - 2011, 2015, 2016
  • Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Award Nominee, University of Tennessee, 2013
  • INFORMS Young Practitioner Connection Member, Nominated 2009
  • POMS Emerging Scholar, May 2008, La Jolla, CA
  • University of Cincinnati Graduate and Research Assistant
  • University of Cincinnati Graduate Summer Research Fellow, 2005
  • INFORMS Future Academician Colloquium, November 2005, San Francisco, CA
  • POMS Doctoral Consortium, April 2005, Chicago, IL
  • DSI Doctoral Consortium, November 2004, Boston, MA
  • CIBER Doctoral Consortium, November 2003, Purdue University