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Edward Anderson is the Wright Centennial Professor for the Management of Innovative Technology at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business and is past Director of the McCombs Healthcare Innovation Center, which was a research center specializing in innovation in healthcare delivery. He is an acknowledged expert in the dynamics of complex systems in organizational contexts.

Current Research Projects

  • Engineering economics in platform supply chain industries (smartphones, electronic health records, videogame consoles)

  • Role of government policy in industrial and supply chain resilience

  • Business-to-business information platforms and supply chain innovation

Dr. Anderson is the author or co-author of:

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Other Research Interests

  • Management of distributed innovation, including outsourcing and offshoring, across the supply chain;

  • Managing supply chain disruptions

  • Performance Improvement, particularly in healthcare settings

  • Project management, including agile product development

  • Computer simulation, including system dynamics and agent-based model computer simulation.

Education

  • B.A.S. (Majors: Electrical Engineering, History), Stanford University, 1988

  • Ph.D. (Management Science, Computer Simulation), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997

Awards

  • Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society

    “The Most Prestigious Honor in the [Production and Operations Management] Society. It is intended to recognize Society members who have made exceptional intellectual contributions to our profession and Society through their research and teaching.”

  • Jay Wright Forrester Award

    Given by the System Dynamics Society for: “Best publication in the field in the past five years.

Contact Information:

Edward G. Anderson Jr., Ph.D.
Wright Centennial Professor for Management of Innovative Technologies
Past President, Production and Operations Management Society
Information, Risk, & Operations Management Dept.,
University of Texas McCombs School of Business
B6500, CBA 5.202, 2110 Speedway Avenue, Austin, TX 78712
Ph: 512 471 6394
EdAnderson@utexas.edu
www.EdAnderson.org