Jan Albert Van Mieghem is the Harold L. Stuart Distinguished Professor
of Managerial Economics and Professor of Operations Management
at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He also serves as the chair of the Managerial Economics and Decision
Sciences (MEDS) department. He received a Ph.D. in business (1995)
and M.S. in electrical engineering (1991) from Stanford University
and a burgerlijk ingenieur degree (MS in EE; 1989) from the Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. His research studies service and
supply chain operations along two dimensions: operations strategy
and economics (capacity investment, network design, sourcing and
pricing strategies) as well as optimal execution and control of
processing networks; c.f., www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/VanMieghem.
He is co-author of the textbook Managing Business Process Flows:
Principles of Operations Management (Prentice Hall 1999, 2006)
and author of Operations Strategy: Principles and Practice (Dynamic
Ideas 2007). He has served as area editor for Operations Research,
senior editor of M&SOM, and associate editor of Management
Science.
