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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

Department:

Business Analytics & Statistics

Program:

Full-Time MBA

Center:

Global Supply Chain Institute

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Biography

Paolo Letizia is the Ball Corporation Professor of Business, a Ray and Joan Myatt Faculty Fellow and an associate professor of operations management and business analytics in the Department of Business Analytics and Statistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business. He conducts research that advances the theory and practice of sustainable operations, with a focus on closed-loop supply chain management, and the operations–marketing and operations–information systems interfaces.

Letizia’s research appears in top journals and outlets such as Management Science, MSOM, POM, Decision Sciences, EJOR, IJAA and Harvard Business Review, with work spanning sustainable supply chains, product customization, returns and green product transitions.

He serves as an associate editor for Decision Sciences, sits on several editorial boards and has led conference tracks on sustainability and closed-loop supply chains. His reviewing has earned multiple journal awards.

At UT, Letizia teaches across undergraduate, graduate, online and executive programs in prescriptive analytics, lean operations and supply chain management, earning strong evaluations and repeated finalist honors for the MBA Best Teacher Award. He previously taught at the Rotterdam School of Management and worked as a senior consultant at Accenture, with research roles at INSEAD and ETH Zurich.

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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