Assistant Professor of Innovation and Operations Management

BABSON COLLEGE invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Innovation and Operations Management beginning in fall 2022.  While our expectation is to appoint at the Assistant Professor level, in exceptional cases we will consider appointments at the rank of Associate Professor. 

 A Ph.D. in Operations Management or a closely related field is required prior to September 2022. Candidates must be committed to excellence in teaching, research, and service. The candidate should be engaged in rigorous research that is practically relevant to business managers. We are especially interested in candidates who are involved, or are willing to be involved, with innovative teaching approaches and materials. Responsibilities include teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in core operations management with the potential to teach upper level electives in an area of expertise. We are interested in all strong candidates who would be a good fit with Babson and who are engaged in exciting emerging fields in operations management, broadly defined.  This could include a focus on product design, service operations, the role of AI and machine learning in operations, behavioral operations, digital operations, crowdsourcing innovation, scaling operations, sustainable firms and supply chains, decision sciences, entrepreneurial operations, or other emergent domains.  

Division Summary: The Operations and Information Management Division at Babson College includes faculty with expertise teaching and researching issues related to evolving technologies that accelerate and change the nature of the design, development, production, and distribution of information, products, and services.  The current opening is for the area of our division focused on Innovation and Operations Management, and current faculty in this area are engaged in research and teaching on issues including crowdsourced innovation, sustainability, health-care operations, product design, and strategic issues in operations. Our faculty publish in a wide range of outlets including journals of the Academy of Management, POMS, IEEE, and INFORMS as well as having a regular presence in practitioner outlets such as Sloan Management Review and Harvard Business Review.  

College Summary: Babson College, located on an attractive suburban campus just fourteen miles west of Boston, is an independent school of management that takes a unique approach to preparing undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals for the accelerating challenges of the modern business world. Babson’s dynamic curriculum focuses on developing skills that transcend business so that students gain multidimensional abilities and can make important contributions to business and society. Our students understand that economic and social value creation are not mutually exclusive, but instead are integral to each other. The fundamental business skills and entrepreneurial mindset they cultivate at Babson equip them to make a difference on campus and around the world, leading to worldwide recognition of our approach to entrepreneurial leadership. Babson has nearly 2,500 full-time undergraduate students and more than 1,300 full and part-time graduate students. Our highly diverse student body hails from 45 U.S. states and 57 countries. Non-U.S. students comprise more than 20% of undergraduate students and more than 40% of our full time graduate students. Babson offers a Bachelor of Science degree, MS and MBA programs, and executive education programs worldwide. We seek faculty who align with our values of teaching excellence, collaboration, diversity and inclusiveness, and those who embrace our mission to educate leaders who create great economic and social value everywhere. We seek candidates who are eager to engage as educators among a diverse student community. Being within the Boston ecosystem affords Babson faculty access to world-leading companies for research and teaching relationships as well as a dynamic academic environment. 

Additional Information:

We are looking for an accomplished teacher/scholar who:
 •Is passionate about teaching and who has a proven track record of teaching excellence and innovative curriculum development
 •Brings depth in scholarly or practical expertise that will add to the intellectual community of the College.
 •Is a team player, willing to lead and collaborate with faculty from multiple disciplines to design and teach courses in an integrated, cross-disciplinary context.
 •Is curious about and comfortable with technology and the possibility of teaching in a blended/online environment.
 •Has the ability to navigate and embrace complexity, ambiguity, and change.
 •Is experienced in teaching, service, and scholarship in ways that will enhance the college’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.
 •Will be a fun, engaging, helpful colleague who is committed to the success of Babson College.

Questions and application information:
Questions about this position may be directed to hiring committee member Professor Victor Seidel (vseidel@babson.edu) or to the Division Chair of Operations and Information Management, Professor Donna Stoddard (dstoddard@babson.edu).  Screening of applicants will begin on October 15, 2021.