Mozart Menezes
PhD Program Director

"This 3rd Summer Academy is organized jointly by the MIT-Zaragoza Program at Zaragoza Logistics Center and the University of Bergamo. The combined academic experience will bring together leaders from global business and academia to discuss leading supply chain issues and their impact on business strategy and public policy.

The Summer Academy, as on previous occasions, has as its objective the presentation of new areas of research to students, using state-of-the-art techniques, and to bring new research topics to PhD students’ attention. We would also like to go beyond the format where students are just exposed to single-institution resources. We believe that, by taking the best resources from different institutions and, at the same time, allowing students from different institutions to attend our courses, we are making a major contribution to the Operations Research/Operations Management field.

Past experiences were extremely fruitful with professors of the calibre of Dr. Yehuda Bassok, Dr. Dorothee Honhon, Dr. Rogelio Oliva, Dr. Nils Rudi among the participants. Students from IESE, Instituto de Empresa, HEC-Paris, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, University of Seville, all took part in the course.

Last summer we had a few important changes. We added the Insider’s Lenses, a track that brought academics and practitioners at a VP level together by focusing on real and specific problems faced by a firm or industry. We are striving to make the 2010 edition of the Summer Academy a big success.