Introduction
Debasish N. Mallick, PhD, is a professor and the chair of the Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. He received his Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his MBA from the University of Arkansas and his PhD in management from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked in the manufacturing and service sectors in the U.S. and abroad. He taught at the University of Arkansas, the University of Texas, Virginia Commonwealth University, Boston College and the University of Minnesota before joining the University of St. Thomas.
His research and teaching interests are in new product development, the management of technology, innovation and design and operations and supply chain management. He strongly believes that higher education, particularly at a university, needs to help students become responsible, moral and ethical. He strives to help students become informed individuals who can think, self-learn and function as productive members of society. Accordingly, he promotes systems thinking using an inquiry-based experiential learning approach for improving judgment, while emphasizing the importance of being a good citizen and behaving ethically at all times.
He has published in the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, the Design Management Journal, the European Journal of Operational Research, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the European Journal of Innovation Management, IEE Transactions on Engineering Management, the Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management, Intelligent Design and Manufacturing and in proceedings of national conferences. He has consulted for more than 20 companies and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals. He is an active member of the Production & Operations Management Society, the Decision Sciences Institute, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, the Engineering Management Society and the Product Development & Management Association.
He received the Outstanding Graduate Student award at the Sam Walton School of Business, the IBM Design Leadership Fellowship from the Corporate Design Foundation, the McKnight Economic and Business Research Fellowship and the Learning Excellence Initiative Grant from the Carlson School of Management, the Instructional Innovation Award from the Decision Sciences Institute and the Susan E. Heckler Research Excellence award from the St. Thomas.