Barry Render Rollins College

Barry Render is the Charles Haywood Distinguished Professor of Operations Management at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida. He received his M.S. in Operations Research and his Ph.D. in Quantitative Analysis at the University of Cincinnati (1975). He previously taught at George Washington University, where he held the GM Foundation Professorship in Decision Sciences and was Chair of the Decision Science Department. Dr. Render has also worked in the aerospace industry for General Electric, McDonnell Douglas, and NASA.

Professor Render has co-authored nine textbooks with Prentice Hall, including Quantitative Analysis for Management, Service Operations Management, Introduction to Management Science, and Cases and Readings in Management Science. His more than one hundred articles on a variety of management topics have appeared in Decision Sciences, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Information and Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Socio-Economic Planning Services, and Operations Management Review, among others.

Dr. Render has also been honored as an AACSB Fellow and named as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in 1982 and again in 1993. He was twice vice-president of the Decision Science Institute Southeast Region and served as Software Review Editor for Decision Line from 1989 to 1995. He has also served as Editor of the New York Times Operations Management special issues since 1996. Finally, Professor Render has been actively involved in consulting for government agencies and for many corporations, including NASA, FBI, U.S. Navy, Fairfax County, Virginia, and C&P Telephone.

He teaches operations management courses in Rollins College's MBA and Executive MBA programs. In 1995 he was named as that school's Professor of the Year, and in 1996 was selected by Roosevelt University to receive the St. Claire Drake Award for Outstanding Scholarship.

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