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Business and Management

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1271
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For creating and applying fundamental engineering principles governing the underlying behavior of manufacturing systems and supply chains.
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Overview

Wallace J. Hopp is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with focused contributions in several subfields including Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their recent scholarly output includes several publications across respected journals. Notable papers include:

  • "The lenses of lean: Visioning the science and practice of efficiency", 2020, Journal of Operations Management
  • "A structured overview of insights and opportunities for enhancing supply chain resilience", 2022, IISE Transactions
  • "The Case for a Unified Science of Operations", 2020, Production and Operations Management
  • "An Instrumental Variable Forest Approach for Detecting Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Observational Studies", 2021, Management Science
  • "CONWIP Redux: reflections on 30 years of development and implementation", 2021, International Journal of Production Research

The topics central to Hopp's work include Quality and Supply Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Complex Systems and Decision Making, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Healthcare Policy and Management, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations are Guihua Wang, Jun Li, M Leroy Spearman, and Christopher D. Ittner.

The scholar's work appears regularly in recognized publication venues such as Management and Business Review, Production and Operations Management, Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, and IISE Transactions.

Wallace J. Hopp has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2014 for contributions related to engineering principles in manufacturing systems and supply chains. Additionally, they hold the distinction of Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Factory Physics : Foundations of Manufacturing Management

    Wallace J. Hopp;Mark L. Spearman

  • CONWIP: a pull alternative to kanban

    Mark L. Spearman;David L. Woodruff;Wallace J. Hopp

  • To Pull or Not to Pull: What Is the Question?

    Wallace J. Hopp;Mark L. Spearman

  • Commissioned Paper: On the Interface Between Operations and Human Resources Management

    John Boudreau;Wallace Hopp;John O. McClain;L. Joseph Thomas

  • Agile workforce evaluation: a framework for cross-training and coordination

    Wallace J. Hopp;Mark P. Van Oyen

  • Benefits of Skill Chaining in Serial Production Lines with Cross-Trained Workers

    Wallace J. Hopp;Eylem Tekin;Mark P. Van Oyen

  • Quoting customer lead times

    Izak Duenyas;Wallace J. Hopp

  • Performance opportunity for workforce agility in collaborative and noncollaborative work systems

    Mark P.Van Oyen;Esma G.S. Gel;Wallace J. Hopp

  • Operations Systems with Discretionary Task Completion

    Wallace J. Hopp;Seyed M. R. Iravani;Gigi Y. Yuen

  • The Impact of Misalignment of Organizational Structure and Product Architecture on Quality in Complex Product Development

    Bilal Gokpinar;Wallace J. Hopp;Seyed M. R. Iravani

  • Patient Streaming as a Mechanism for Improving Responsiveness in Emergency Departments

    Soroush Saghafian;Wallace J. Hopp;Mark P. Van Oyen;Jeffrey S. Desmond

  • Setting WIP levels with statistical throughput control (STC) in CONWIP production lines

    W. J. Hopp;M.L. Roof

  • Product Line Selection and Pricing with Modularity in Design

    Wallace J. Hopp;Xiaowei Xu

  • A model for equipment replacement due to technological obsolescence

    Suresh K. Nair;Wallace J. Hopp

  • Complexity-Augmented Triage: A Tool for Improving Patient Safety and Operational Efficiency

    Soroush Saghafian;Wallace J. Hopp;Mark P. Van Oyen;Jeffrey S. Desmond

  • Trust and Information Sharing in Supply Chains

    Neda Ebrahim‐khanjari;Wallace J. Hopp;Seyed M. R. Iravani

  • Managing White‐Collar Work: An Operations‐Oriented Survey

    Wallace J. Hopp;Seyed M. R. Iravani;Fang Liu

  • Easily Implementable Inventory Control Policies

    Wallace J. Hopp;Mark L. Spearman;Rachel Q. Zhang

  • Throughput of a constant work in process manufacturing line subject to failures

    Wallace J. Hopp;Mark L. Spearman

  • The lenses of lean: Visioning the science and practice of efficiency

    Wallace J. Hopp;Mark S. Spearman

  • Operations systems with discretionary task completion

    Gigi Yuen;Wallace J. Hopp;Seyed M R Iravani

Frequent Co-Authors

Izak Duenyas
Izak Duenyas University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel Diermeier
Daniel Diermeier Vanderbilt University
David L. Woodruff
David L. Woodruff University of California, Davis
Mark S. Daskin
Mark S. Daskin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert L. Smith
Robert L. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lawrence A. Birnbaum
Lawrence A. Birnbaum Northwestern University
John W. Boudreau
John W. Boudreau University of Southern California

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