Jonathan F. Bard is a professor of operations research and industrial engineering in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Industrial Properties Corporation Endowed Faculty Fellowship, and serves as the Associate Director of the Center for the Management of Operations and Logistics. He received the D.Sc. degree in operations research from the George Washington Uni­versity, the M.S. degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University, and the B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Pro­fessor Bard’s research interests are in the design and analysis of manufacturing systems, personnel scheduling, R&D project management, and vehicle routing. Prior to begin­ning his academic career, he worked as a program manager for the Aerospace Corpora­tion and as a systems engineer for Booz, Allen & Hamilton. He is currently the editor of IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering and serves on the editorial board of sever­al other journals. He is a Fellow of IIE and a Senior Member of IEEE and INFORMS.

Shlomo Globerson is a professor in the School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University. He received the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the Universi­ty of California, Berkeley, the M.S. degree in industrial engineering from the Faculty of In­dustrial Engineering and Management at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, and the B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the Technion. His primary research and teaching activities center on project management and operations management. He has published seven books and over 80 articles. Professor Globerson is the former President of the Israeli chapter of the Project Management Institute and currently serves on the adviso­ry board for the Industrial Engineering Handbook. He is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of Operations Management and the International Journal of Project Management.

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