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Andy Tsay

Department Chair, Operations Management & Information Systems (OMIS)

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Dr. Andy Tsay is Department Chair for Operations Management & Information Systems in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, where he teaches primarily in the Executive MBA and MBA programs for working professionals. He earned his PhD at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He also holds degrees from Stanford in Engineering (MS) and Mathematical & Computational Sciences (BS).

Read about Dr. Tsay's teaching in the Leavey School's 2007 Annual Report (pp.4-7) and about his recent research in the Fall 2008 Mind-Work newsletter (PDF pp.6-7 or HTML). View his appearances in the global press here.

Dr. Tsay's professional focus is the management of design, manufacturing, and procurement in heavily outsourced supply chains. He also has expertise in business analytics and quantitative modeling.

He has more than 25 professional publications in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Interfaces, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Retailing, and Journal of Supply Chain Management, practitioner periodicals such as Supply Chain Management Review, International Commerce Review, and CPO Agenda (for Chief Procurement Officers), and various books on supply chain management. He serves in senior leadership positions for several of these journals (see bottom of page).

His publications have been cited more than 2800 times (according to Google Scholar). His 2008 paper in Journal of Supply Chain Management (with Roth, Pullman, and Gray) received a 2012 Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence, awarded to only 50 articles worldwide for impact as evaluated 3 years post-publication. The competition pool consisted of the roughly 15,000 articles published in 2008 in 300 top management journals across all disciplines (including Harvard Business Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and MIS Quarterly).

He has consulted for large firms as well as startups in Silicon Valley and China. He has been interviewed extensively in the global press. He has lectured to academic and industry audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

He serves frequently as a visiting professor at Peking University, teaching in the Beijing International MBA program, which honored him with its 2004-2007 Teaching Excellence Award.

In 2007 the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS) recognized Dr. Tsay with the Wickham Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation. POMS is the premier international professional society for the study and practice of Operations Management, with more than 1,100 members in 44 countries. One such award is given each year to honor a professor for a teaching career that demonstrates excellence and innovativeness.

He is a six-time recipient of the all-inclusive Dean's Award for Extraordinary Performance in Research, Teaching, and Service. Along with seven Extraordinary Teaching Award and eight Extraordinary Service Award honors, his teaching and service have each been recognized by the Leavey School of Business in fifteen different years.

In 2000, he was named Santa Clara University's Outstanding Faculty Advisor of a Student Organization for his work with the OMIS Student Network, which won the Dean's Award for Outstanding Business Student Association that year. Under Dr. Tsay's supervision, the OMIS Student Network also won the University Award for Outstanding New Educational Program (2001), the Business School Award for Service to the Community (2002) and the Business School Award for Enhancing Students' Career Development (2002).

Dr. Tsay currently serves as an "Open Classroom" professor, one of six (and the only business professor) invited by the Provost’s Office to serve as teaching mentors for colleagues across the university.

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