Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Aleda Roth - Management
Burlington Industries Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office:
343A Sirrine Hall
Email: aroth@clemson.edu
Internationally acclaimed scholar Dr. Aleda V. Roth will join the Clemson University faculty in May as the Burlington Industries Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management.
Dr. Roth’s current research explores how firms can effectively deploy their global supply chains and technology. At Clemson, Dr. Roth will continue her senior editorial work with Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and the Journal of Operations Management. She will also work with doctoral students and establish additional ties with the business community.
Dr. Roth comes to Clemson from Arizona State University, where she held the W.P. Carey Chair in Supply Chain Management. Previously, Dr. Roth worked at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At UNC, 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 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. Dr. Roth has extensive international consulting experience with companies such as Deloitte Consulting, Glaxo-Welcome R&D Services, Texas Instruments, Baxter Healthcare, Accenture, Price Waterhouse 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).