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Wallace (Wally) Hopp

Herrick Professor of Manufacturing; Professor of Operations and Management Science

PHD, University Of Michigan, 1984
MS, University Of Michigan, 1982
MS, Washington University In St. Louis, 1979
BS, Michigan State University, 1978


Professor Hopp joined the Ross School in 2007 after 23 years on the faculty of Northwestern University. His research focuses on the design, control and management of production, supply chain and work systems. He has published widely in the academic literature in these areas and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Management Science from 2003 to 2008. Hopp is co-author of the text Factory Physics, which was named the IIE Book of the Year, and author of a new book Supply Chain Science. He has won a number of teaching and research awards, including being named a Fellow of INFORMS, IIE, SME, MSOM and POMS. He is also an active industry consultant, whose clients have included Abbott Laboratories, Bell & Howell, Black & Decker, Case, Dell, Ford, Eli Lilly, Emerson Electric, General Motors, John Deere, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Owens Corning, Texas Instruments, Whirlpool, Zenith, and others.

Wallace (Wally) Hopp
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
701 Tappan St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Room Location: R5328
Phone: (734) 763-6027
Fax: (734) 936-8716
E-Mail: whopp@umich.edu
Personal Site: http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/whopp
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Operations and Management Science Web Site