David Pyke | University of San Diego (original) (raw)

David Pyke, Ph.D. is professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, at the School of Business Administration at the University of San Diego. He was dean of the SBA from 2008 until 2015, leading the school to a significant presence in national and international business school rankings. Formerly, he was professor of Operations Management, and associate dean at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He obtained his BA from Haverford College, MBA from Drexel University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has made major research contributions in inventory models, production planning and scheduling, and global operations and supply chain management. He has co-authored two books and has published numerous academic papers. His book Inventory and Production Management in Supply Chains, co-authored with E. A. Silver and D. Thomas (fourth edition, CRC Press, 2017) is used in numerous Master’s and Ph.D. programs worldwide. He is a frequent faculty at executive programs, and has taught at the International University of Japan, the Helsinki School of Economics and the WHU - Otto-Beisheim-Hochschule, Vallendar, Germany. He has consulted for The Rand Corporation, Accenture, Corning, DHL, Eaton, Home Depot and Markem, among others. He serves on the Board of Directors of GW Plastics, Concepts NREC, and until recently the Lwala Community Alliance, a nonprofit focused on community development in Kenya. He is an advisor to GuardHat, Inc. and La Angara.

Professor Pyke’s consulting engagements range from operations and supply chain strategy formulation, to training in global supply chain management and operations strategy, to tactical inventory and production control.

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