Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

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  Charles Fine

  Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
  Professor of Operations Management and Engineering Systems
  Co-Director, International Motor Vehicle Program
  

  Charles H. Fine teaches operations strategy and supply chain management and directs the roadmapping activities in MIT's Communications Futures Program. His research focuses on supply chain strategy and value chain roadmapping, with a particular emphasis on fast clockspeed manufacturing industries. Fine's work has supported the design and improvement of supply chain relationships for companies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, communications, and consumer products... ... (more)

  Charles H. Fine teaches operations strategy and supply chain management and directs the roadmapping activities in MIT's Communications Futures Program. His research focuses on supply chain strategy and value chain roadmapping, with a particular emphasis on fast clockspeed manufacturing industries. Fine's work has supported the design and improvement of supply chain relationships for companies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, communications, and consumer products. His current research examines dynamic models for assessing the leverage among the various components in complex industrial value chains and the principles for value chain design, based on strategic and logistical assessments.

  Fine consults and teaches widely. Among his clients are 3M, Accenture, Agile Software, Alcan, BellSouth, Bombardier, Caterpillar, Chrysler, Delphi Automotive, Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, Fluor, GE, GM, Goodyear, Honeywell, HP, Intel, Kodak, Lucent, Mercury Computer, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, NCR, Nokia, Nortel, Oracle, Polaroid, PTC, Research-in-Motion, Rolls-Royce, Sematech, Teradyne, Toyota, TRW, Unilever, Volkswagen, Volvo, and Walsin Lihwa.

  He also serves on the board of directors of Greenfuel Technologies Corporation, a biotechnology company that he co-founded, which focuses on renewable energy. He is the co-director of the executive education program, Driving Strategic Innovation, which is a joint venture between MIT Sloan and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.

  Fine is the author of Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage (Perseus Books, 1998). His work on quality management, flexible manufacturing, supply chain management, and operations strategy has also appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, the Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, the Annals of Operations Research, Games and Economic Behavior, the Sloan Management Review, the Supply Chain Management Review, and Interfaces.

  Fine holds an AB in mathematics and management science from Duke University, an MS in operations research from Stanford University, and a PhD in business administration (decision sciences) from Stanford University. (less)

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  Retsef Levi

  J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management,
  Associate Professor of Operations Management
  

  Retsef Levi's current research is focused on the design and the performance analysis of efficient algorithms for fundamental stochastic and deterministic optimization models, arising in the context of supply chains, revenue management, logistics and health care. These fundamental, multistage stochastic models are typically very hard to solve optimally, both theoretically and in practice... ... (more)

  Retsef Levi's current research is focused on the design and the performance analysis of efficient algorithms for fundamental stochastic and deterministic optimization models, arising in the context of supply chains, revenue management, logistics and health care. These fundamental, multistage stochastic models are typically very hard to solve optimally, both theoretically and in practice. Hence, it is important to develop efficient heuristics that provide provably near-optimal policies for these hard models.

  Levi has special interest in Cost-Balancing techniques, data-driven (sampling-based) algorithms, and modern Linear-Programming-based approximation techniques applied to models in the above domains. In addition, he is interested in stochastic and combinatorial optimization and mathematical programming in their broad definition, and especially in their intersection with problems that arise in the context of real-life applications.

  Prof. Levi is affiliated with MIT's Master of Science Program in Computation for Design and Optimization.

  Retsef Levi was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel and served about 12 years as an officer in the Israeli Defense Forces. In 2005, he received the Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences awarded by the Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. (less)

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  Donald Rosenfield

  Senior Lecturer, Operations Management
  Director, Leaders for Global Operations Program
  

  Donald Rosenfield has served on the MIT Sloan faculty since 1980 and has also served on the faculties of Harvard Business School, the State University of New York, and Boston University. Rosenfield has helped make the LFM Program a groundbreaking program in manufacturing education. At MIT, he has developed courses in manufacturing strategy, operations management, and international logistics... ... (more)

  Donald Rosenfield has served on the MIT Sloan faculty since 1980 and has also served on the faculties of Harvard Business School, the State University of New York, and Boston University. Rosenfield has helped make the LFM Program a groundbreaking program in manufacturing education. At MIT, he has developed courses in manufacturing strategy, operations management, and international logistics.

  Rosenfield's research principally focuses on manufacturing strategy and supply chain management. He has conducted extensive research and worked with a variety of corporations in these areas. Additionally, he has conducted a substantial number of management development seminars in the United States and abroad. Prior to joining MIT, he served on the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., from 1976 to 1988.

  Rosenfield holds an SB in mathematics, an SM in operations research, and an EE from MIT, as well as a PhD in operations research from Stanford University. He co-authored the book, Modern Logistics Management, and numerous articles in operations management. His latest book, Operations Leadership was published in 2007. (less)