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The Operations and Information Management Division at BABSON COLLEGE invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Operations Management beginning in fall 2024. While our expectation is to appoint at the Assistant Professor level, in exceptional cases we will consider appointments at the rank of Associate Professor. Candidates must be committed to excellence in teaching, research, and service.

The successful candidate should be an engaged educator/scholar who embodies these qualifications:

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. To be fully considered, please apply by December 1st, 2023.

The Operations and Information Management Division is a community of collaborative and supportive colleagues who actively engage in cutting-edge research and innovative teaching. The Division comprises 13 full-time tenure/tenure track faculty members, 7 full-time professors of practice, and 12 adjunct instructors. The Division includes faculty with expertise teaching and researching issues related to evolving technologies that accelerate and change the nature of the design, development, production, and distribution of information, products, and services. The current opening is for the area of our division focused on Innovation and Operations Management, and current faculty in this area are engaged in research and teaching on issues including innovation, design, sustainability, health-care operations, and strategic issues in operations. Our faculty publish in a wide range of outlets including journals of the Academy of Management, PDMA, POMS, IEEE, and INFORMS as well as having a regular presence in practitioner outlets such as Sloan Management Review and Harvard Business Review.

 

College Summary:

Babson College, located on an attractive suburban campus just fourteen miles west of Boston, is an independent school of management that takes a unique approach to preparing undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals for the accelerating challenges of the modern business world. Babson’s dynamic curriculum focuses on developing skills that transcend business so that students gain multidimensional abilities and can make important contributions to business and society. Our students understand that economic and social value creation are not mutually exclusive, but instead are integral to each other. The fundamental business skills and entrepreneurial mindset they cultivate at Babson equip them to make a difference on campus and around the world, leading to worldwide recognition of our approach to entrepreneurial leadership. Babson has nearly 2,500 full-time undergraduate students and more than 1,100 full and part-time graduate students. We have a very global student body. Babson offers a Bachelor of Science degree, MS and MBA programs, and executive education programs worldwide. Being within the Boston ecosystem affords Babson faculty access to world-leading companies for research and teaching relationships as well as a dynamic academic environment.

Babson College is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to enhancing diversity across all levels of the College. Candidates who align with our values of teaching excellence, collaboration, diversity and inclusiveness, and those who embrace our mission to educate leaders who create great economic and social value everywhere are strongly encouraged to apply.

Questions about this position may be directed to the Search Committee Chairs, Professor Jay Rao (raoj@babson.edu) and Professor Rubén Mancha (rmancha@babson.edu).