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Chester Chambers MBA, PhD

Clinical Professor ITOM
Director – MS business Analyitcs

SMU – Cox BUsiness School

JHU School of medicine

(Courtesy appointment)

Greetings!

I am a Clinical Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at the Cox School of Business in Southern Methodist University (with a courtesy appointment at the john Hopkins school of Medicine). I am also the Program Director for the MS Business Analytics Program here a cox.

My research and writing includes dozens of scholarly works spanning areas of Heath care Process Improvement, Technology Management, Supply Chain Management, and Personal Finance.

IntErests

Healthcare Process Improvement
Supply Chain Management
Business Analytics

Personal Finance
Retiement planning
Public Speaking

Education

BS Civil Engineering:
VPI & SU

MBA:
University of Virginia

Doctor of Philosophy:
Duke Univerity

LATEST BLOG POSTS

Efficiency: Part I

In the context of investing we all would like to “buy low and sell high.” A profit is made when you sell something for more than you paid for it. Thus, the question of how prices arise...

Efficiency: Part 2

I had a classmate in my MBA program who left his job as an equity analyst to come back to college to get an MBA. The longer-term goal was to use the MBA to help get an even better job...

Efficiency: Part 3

I ran across an interesting question recently. If GDP growth has averaged roughly 3% per year for the past 50 years, and inflation also averaged around 3% per year over that span of...

Biography

I have over 25 years of experience as a Teacher/Professor/Lecturer with prior appointments with NC State University, Washington University in St Louis, Johns Hopkins University (School of Business and School of Medicine), and Southern Methodist University. My research has spanned Technology Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Health Care Process Improvement, and Retirement Planning. I also have side interests in recreational cycling and public speaking.

Selected Employment History

Program Director of MS Business Analytics Program
Southern Methodist University: Cox School of Business
2022-Present

Clinical Professor of Information Technology & Operations Management
Southern Methodist University: Cox School of Business
2022-Present

Professor of Practice in Operations Management and Business Analytics
Johns Hopkins University: Carey Business School
2021

Associate Faculty of Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
Johns Hopkins University
2012-2021

Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
2013-2021

Academic Program Director of Business Analytics & Risk Management Programs
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
2016-2021

Associate Professor of Practice in Operations Management
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
2019-2021

Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
2009-2018

Assistant Professor of IT and Operations Management
Southern Methodist Cox School of Business
2001-2009

Learn more about Me

I remain active as a Teacher/Scholar/Author and Public Speaker. You can get a taste of the back-story here.

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