Participants
Fabrizio Salvador
Professor of Operations Management at Instituto de Empresa Business School, Adjunct Professor at the MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Program and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fabrizio Salvador is Professor of Operations Management at Instituto de Empresa Business School, Adjunct Professor at the MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Program and Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been Faculty Resarch Associate at Arizona State University. He received a Ph.D in Operations Management from the University of Padova, where he also graduated in Industrial Engineering.
Dr. Salvador research focuses on operation strategy in uncertain environments and customer-centric organization design. He has been researching such topics as mass customization, concurrent product-process-supply chain design and organization design for efficient product configuration. His research has been published in many prestigious academic journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, etc. He has been awarded over 400,000€ in research grants, both from public and private institutions, and has helped numerous companies in addressing operational problems associated with customization and product proliferation.
Dr. Salvador teaching experience spans over a decade and includes undergraduate, post-graduate courses, taught both in MBA programs, MS programs, executive programs and in-company programs. He is committed to a student-centered learning philosophy and follows the principle of mixing different methods for a successful learning experience: cases, exercises, lectures, games, student presentations, etc. But far from burying himself in research and writing, Dr. Salvador believes in good teaching as a fundamental mission for academic professors. “If you do good research, you also ought to transfer that valuable knowledge both to students and practitioners. It is your social duty.”