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Aleda Roth joined the College of
Business and Behavioral Science
faculty in May 2006 as the Burlington Industries Professor of Supply
Chain
Management. She comes to Clemson from Arizona State
University, where she held the W. P. Carey Chair in Supply Chain
Management. Previously, she worked at the Kenan-Flagler Business
School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At UNC-
Chapel Hill, she was the Mary Farley Lee Distinguished Professor of
Operations Management and chair of the Global Supply Chain Management
Concentration in the MBA program. She has also held faculty
appointments at the Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and
Boston University’s School of Management.
Dr. Roth has extensive international consulting experience with
companies
such as Deloitte Consulting, Glaxo-Welcome R&D Services, Texas
Instruments, Baxter Healthcare, Accenture, PriceWaterhouse Coopers,
Morgan Chemicals, and others. She has held visiting professorships at
two of Europe’s leading business schools — the London Business School
and the WHU, Otto Beisheim Graduate School (Germany).
In addition to her consulting experience, Dr. Roth has over 150
publications, including books, major book chapters, and articles in
the leading operations management journals. She is a much sought
after lecturer by both institutions of higher learning and
corporations, and she has earned numerous awards for her teaching and
professional service.
In August 2006, Dr. Roth
was named Operations Management Scholar by the Academy of Management.
According to Rebecca Duray, Operations Management Division Chair,
“Aleda Roth has continually added to the depth and quality of
research in Operations Management. With her stream of talented Ph. D.
students that she has nurtured into developing scholars, Aleda has
already left a lasting mark in the Operations Management field and
will undoubtedly add to that legacy over the years to come.”
Dr. Roth’s current research explores how firms can effectively deploy
their global supply chains and technology. At Clemson, she will
continue her senior editorial work with Management Science,
Production and Operations Management, and the Journal of Operations
Management. She will also continue her work with doctoral students
and establish additional ties with the business community.
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