Fabrizio Salvador

Biography

PhD in Operations Management, Università di Padova, Italy; MS in Engineering and Management, Università di Padova, Italy. Fabrizio Salvador is Professor of Operations Management at IE. He is also a founding member of the MIT Smart Customization Group, Adjunct Professor at the MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Program and serves as senior scientific advisor for the IE Foundation. Dr. Salvador has been visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as adjunct Faculty Research 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 interests focus on the mechanisms through which organizations recombine or reuse their resources (product and service components, people, business processes and organizational units) to respond to uncertainty in their operational environments. He investigated these problems in the context of project-based and professional service organizations (e.g. consulting, engineering, health care and software services) as well as manufacturing organizations (e.g. industrial equipment, fast-moving consumer goods, mass customized goods). Dr. Salvador has been published in the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, MIT Sloan Management Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, among the others.  Dr Salvador also serves as Department Editor for the Journal of Operations Management, Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management as well as Associate Editor for the Decision Sciences Journal. Dr. Salvador collaborated with numerous organizations in his field of expertise, including AstraZeneca, DHL, Ernst&Young, IBM, John Deere, Nokia, Permasteelisa, Xerox, Tetra Pak and Unilever. He conceived and directed various open enrollment executive programs and successfully engaged private enterprises in business analytics applied research initiatives. He also has joined multiple EU-sponsored research projects that involved industry-academia collaboration.

Research Interest

Business