Warren Hausman has analyzed how RFID technology can revolutionize the management of supply chains. He has investigated the value of RFID applications in retail environments, in logistics, and in manufacturing and assembly operations. He is also studying how operational improvements on the supply side in retail supply chains affect a company’s financial performance and market capitalization. He has made significant research contributions in the management of inventory systems, multi-echelon inventory systems, automatic warehousing systems, and fashion products.

Warren H. Hausman is Professor of Operations Management (by courtesy), at the Graduate School of Business, and Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering at Stanford. He is an Affiliated Faculty member with Stanford’s Global Supply Chain Forum and with the Department’s Operations Research Program.

Professor Hausman has performed numerous research studies in supply chain management and operations management. He is the author or co-author of more than fifty technical articles on these subjects that have appeared in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, and IIE Transactions. He is also a co-author of Quantitative Analysis for Management, a popular textbook now in its Ninth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 1997).

Professor Hausman has served as the Departmental Editor for Logistics for Management Science; he was also elected President of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). He has served on the Board of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and on several National Science Foundation Advisory Panels and Committees. He is a Fellow of INFORMS, a Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, and a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society. He has also won several teaching awards, including the Eugene Grant Teaching Award in Stanford’s School of Engineering.

Professor Hausman is an active consultant to industry and he has been involved in numerous executive education programs both at Stanford and around the world. His consulting clients represent the following industries: general manufacturing, electronics, computers, consumer products, food & beverage, transportation, healthcare, and high technology. He is a co-founder of Supply Chain Online, which provides web-based corporate supply chain management training. He serves on the technical advisory boards of several Silicon Valley startups.

Professor Hausman also served as Department Chair for the Industrial Engineering – Engineering Management Department at Stanford. He earned a BA in Economics from Yale and a PhD from MIT's Sloan School of Management.