Ph.D. (Operations and Technology Management), UCLA, 1995

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

Practice Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Singapore Management University, 2008 - Present

Previous Appointments:

Assistant Professor of Operations Management, INSEAD, 2000-2008

Consultant and Principal Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 1997-2000

Consultant, Arthur D. Little, 1995-1996

Editorial Activities

Referee, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Honors & Awards

Richard A. Freund Scholarship, American Society of Quality, 1994

Courses Taught in SMU

Quality and Sustainability in Business Operations

Selected Consulting Activities

Supply Chain Strategy, MNCs in chemical industry

Operations Management, Action-based Learning, Singapore-based industrial supplier

Research Areas

Operations Strategy

Sustainable Operations

Current Projects

“Organic Production Systems: An Emerging Operations Strategy?”, with M. Qi and L. Van Wassenhove

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

Demeester, L.L., M. Qi. (2005), “Managing learning resources for consecutive product generations”, International Journal of Production Economics, 95 265–283.

Demeester, L., K. Eichler, C.H. Loch (2004), “Organic production systems: What the biological cell can teach us about manufacturing”, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 6(2) 115–132.

Lieberman, M.B., Demeester L. (1999). “Inventory Reduction and Productivity Growth: Linkages in the Japanese Automotive Industry.” Management Science, 45(4): 466-485.

Lieberman, M.B., S. Helper, L. Demeester (1999). “The empirical determinants of inventory levels in high-volume manufacturing”, Production and Operations Management 8(1) 44-55.