Assistant Professor of Innovation and Operations Management
- Employer
- Babson College
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not specified
- Date posted
- Sep 9, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Business & Management, Other Business & Management
- Employment Level
- Tenured/Tenured Track
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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.
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