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Thomas Roemer

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Thomas Roemer is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Management and has served as the Executive Director of the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) Program since July 2014.


Roemer is interested in the intersection of engineering and management and, in particular, the value creation during the design, manufacture, and delivery of products.  His research on product development, design for manufacturing, machine scheduling, and inventory theory has been published in leading journals.  He has taught classes in operations management and strategy, product design and development, quantitative analysis, and business ethics.


From 2000 to 2006, Roemer was an Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan, where he served as the first MIT-Ford Faculty Fellow and was named the Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor in Operations Management.  From 2006 to 2014, he was on the faculty at the Rady School of Management at the University of California at San Diego, where he helped create the Architecture-based Enterprise Systems Engineering (AESE) Program.  He also served as associate director of the Program.  He has won numerous teaching awards at the Rady School and, in 2009, received the award for “Outstanding Faculty Teaching” from the Graduate Student Association at UCSD. 


Roemer received a Diplom-Ingenieur degree from the Technische Universität Berlin and his PhD from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.


Courses

Technology and Operations

Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy

Global Economics & Markets

Operations

Strategy & Innovation

EARN 2.0 EEUs
Developing a Leading Edge Operations Strategy
In Person

STARTING

Nov 11–12, 2025

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,700

STARTING

Nov 11–12, 2025

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,700

Oct 13–14, 2026

Cambridge, MA

2 days

8 hours/day

$4,900

STARTING

Oct 13–14, 2026

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,900

Live Online

STARTING

Mar 12–13, 2026

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,900

STARTING

Mar 12–13, 2026

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,900

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Technology and Operations

Supply Chain Strategy and Management

Global Economics & Markets

Operations

EARN 2.0 EEUs
Supply Chain Strategy and Management
In Person

STARTING

Nov 13–14, 2025

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,700

STARTING

Nov 13–14, 2025

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,700

Oct 15–16, 2026

Cambridge, MA

2 days

8 hours/day

$4,900

STARTING

Oct 15–16, 2026

LOCATION

Cambridge, MA

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,900

Live Online

STARTING

Apr 23–24, 2026

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,900

STARTING

Apr 23–24, 2026

DURATION

2 days

COMMITMENT

8 hours/day

TUITION

$4,900

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