Faculty Profile

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DEMEESTER Lieven

Full-time Faculty
Associate Provost (Teaching and Learning Innovation); Associate Professor of Operations Management (Practice)
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
LKCSB

Education

1995

Ph.D., Operations and Technology Management
Anderson School of Management
University of California , Los Angeles

1990

Diploma for Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications
University of Gent , Belgium

Current Position(s) Held

2013 - Now

Associate Professor of Operations Management (Practice)
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

2015 - 2017

Associate Dean, MBA Programmes
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

2014 - 2017

Academic Director, MBA, EMBA, IE-SMU MBA
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

2011 - 2015

Area Coordinator of Operations Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

2008 - 2013

Assistant Professor of Operations Management (Practice)
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

  • Dean's Teaching Honour List - Top 20 Faculty Members, August 2009 - August 2009
  • Richard A. Freund Scholarship, ASQ (American Society for Quality). Only recipient, selected from over 90 candidates nationwide., 1994 - 1994

Research Interests

  • Operations Strategy
  • Supply Chain Strategy
  • Sustainable Operations

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

  • “The Role of Operations Executives in Strategy Making”, by Lieven DEMEESTER, A. DE MEYER, and J. GRAHOVAC, 2014, 32, Journal Of Operations Management, 403-413
  • “Plant Networks for Processing Recyclable Materials”, by Lieven DEMEESTER, M. QI and L. VAN WASSENHOVE, 2013, 15, 4, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 670–688 
  • "Managing learning resources for consecutive product generations.", by Lieven DEMEESTER and M. QI, 2005 , 95 , International Journal of Production Economics, 265-283
  • "Organic production systems: What the biological cell can teach us about manufacturing", by Lieven DEMEESTER, K. EICHLER, and C.H. LOCH, 2004 , 6 , 2, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 115-132
  • "Inventory Reduction and Productivity Growth: Linkages in the Japanese Automotive Industry", by M.B. LIEBERMAN and Lieven DEMEESTER, 1999 , 8 , 1, MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 466-485
  • "The empirical determinants of inventory levels in high-volume manufacturing", by M.B. LIEBERMAN, S. HELPER, and Lieven DEMEESTER, 1999 , 45 , 4, Production and Operations Management, 44-55
  • "Cycle time reduction at an IBM wafer fabrication facility", by Lieven DEMEESTER and C.S. TANG, 1996 , 26 , 2, Interfaces, 34-49

Selected Chapters in Books

  • "Mathematical models in IC manufacturing", by C.S. TANG and Lieven DEMEESTER, Perspectives in Operations Management, Kluwer, 1993 

Other Published Articles

Research Advisor/Co-Research Advisor To

  • Prashant SARAN, (prashants.2018@dba.smu.edu.sg), DBA 
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Curriculum Vitae

Research Areas and Areas of Expertise