Dr. Antonio Arreola-Risa is a faculty member in the Information and Operations Management Department at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. For several years he served as the director of the Texas A&M University's Supply Chain Consortium. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in operations management from Stanford University. Prior to joining Texas A&M University, he served on the faculty at Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and the University of Washington. Dr. Arreola-Risa started his professional career as a production and inventory control analyst at a manufacturing firm. His primary research, teaching, and consulting interests are in the following two fields: production-distribution systems with emphasis on enterprise resource planning and supply chain management and service operations with emphasis on health care systems management. Dr. Arreola-Risa has taught undergraduate, master and doctoral courses. He has lectured in executive education programs and has consulted for companies in the U.S. and abroad, including the Boeing Company, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Neiman Marcus and Royal Dutch Shell. Dr. Arreola-Risa is on the CHI St. Joseph Health Board of Directors. His research can be found in such academic journals as Computers & Operations Research, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, IIE Transactions, Management Science, Naval Research Logistics and Production and Operations Management. He is the co-author of four books: LINEAR PROGRAMMING: AN INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE DECISION MAKING; INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL BUSINESS; INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS; and DESIGNING SUPPLY CHAINS FOR NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
