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Dr. Yossi Sheffi Launches Logistics Clusters: A Path to Economic Growth and Jobs at CSCMP Conference on October 1st.

Logistics Clusters #21 on October 2012 Top 50 New Management Books for Entrepreneurs

About.com Logistics/Supply Chain names Logistics Clusters October Book of the Month


Yossi Sheffi speaks on Organizational Resilience at the PopTech 2012 Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland

Yossi Sheffi on CNBC series "Executive Vision - Global Logistics"

Yossi Sheffi on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line"

Welcome to Yossi's Site

Yossi SheffiElisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT
Professor, MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL). He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis, and supply chain management, which are the subjects he teaches and researches at MIT. He is the author of many scientific publications and three books:

  • Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods (Prentice Hall, 1985)
  • The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (MIT Press, 2005)
  • Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth (MIT Press, 2012)

Under his leadership, CTL launched many new educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, leading to substantial growth. He is the founder and the Director of MIT's Master of Supply Chain Management degree. He also led the international expansion of CTL by launching the Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) global network of academic centers of education and research. The network includes centers modeled after CTL in Zaragoza, Spain; Bogota, Colombia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

From 2007 to 2011 he served as the Director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, where he set a strategy, revamped the PhD program, and set the division for future growth.

Outside the university Professor Sheffi has consulted with governments and leading manufacturing, retail and transportation enterprises all over the world. He is also an active entrepreneur, having founded and co-founded five successful companies:

  • Princeton Transportation Consulting Group Inc.
  • LogiCorp Inc.
  • e-Chemicals Inc.
  • Syncra Inc.
  • Logistics.com Inc.

Dr. Sheffi was recognized in numerous ways in academic and industry forums and was on the cover of Purchasing Magazine and Transportation and Distribution Magazine. In 1997 he won the most prestigious recognition given by the Council of Logistics Management—the Distinguished Service Award. In 2006 he won the Aragón International Prize. In 2010 he became an honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) of the University of Zaragoza in Spain and in 2011 he was awarded the Salzberg Medal and Award for "outstanding leadership and innovations in Supply Chain management" by the University of Syracuse. He is also a life fellow of Cambridge University's Clare Hall College.

He obtained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Israel in 1975, his S.M. from MIT in 1977, and Ph.D. from MIT in 1978. He now resides in Boston, Massachusetts.



Explore Professor Sheffi's new book:
Logistic Clusters