Jay Heizer Texas Lutheran University

Jay Heizer holds the Jesse H. Jones Chair for Business Administration at Texas Lutheran University in Senguin, Texas. He received his B.B.A. and M.B.A. from the University of North Texas and his Ph.D. in Management and Statistics from Arizona State University (1969). He was previously a member of the faculty at Memphis State University, the University of Oklahoma, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Richmond. He has also held visiting positions at Boston University, George Mason University, and the Czech Management Center.

Dr. Heizer's industrial experience is extensive. He learned the practical side of operations management as a machinist apprentice at Foringer and Company, production planner for Westinghouse Airbrake, and at General Dynamics, where he worked in consulting in the OM and MIS areas for a variety of organizations including Philip Morris, Firestone, Dixie Container Corporation, Columbia Industries and Tenneco. He holds the CPIM certification from the American Production and Inventory Control Society.

Professor Heizer has co-authored five books and has published over thirty articles on a variety of management topics. His papers have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Purchasing, Personnel Psychology, Production & Inventory Control Management, APICS-The Performance Advantage, Journal of Management History, and Engineering Management, among others. He has taught operations management courses in undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs.

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