College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Associate Professor of Business Administration and
Gutman Teaching Excellence Fellow and Academic Director MBA Programs

Ph.D., Operations Management, Purdue University, 1995
M.S., Systems Analysis and Management, George Washington University, 1991
B.S., Physics, College of William and Mary, 1989

Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois, 2004 - Present
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois, 1996-2004
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Purdue University, 1995-1996

Dada, M., Petruzzi, N., Schwarz, L. 2007. A Newsvendor's Procurement Problem When Suppliers are Unreliable. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 9: 9-32

Wu, C., Petruzzi, N., Chhajed, D. 2007. Vertical Integration with Price-Setting Competitive Newsvendors. Decision Sciences, 38: 581-610

Yalabik, B., Petruzzi, N., Chhajed, D. 2005. An Integrated Product Returns Model With Logistics and Marketing Coordination. European Journal of Operational Research, 161: 162-182

Best Lecturer Award, Warsaw-Illinois Executive MBA, University of Warsaw, 2007
Gutman Teaching Excellence Fellow, College of Business, UIUC, 2006-2007
Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, UIUC, 1997-2007
Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Teaching, UIUC, 2006
MBA Professor of the Year, UIUC, 2006
MBA Professor of the Year, UIUC, 2005
Meritorious Service Award, Operations Research, 2002, 2005
Graduate Excellence-in-Teaching Award, College of Business, UIUC, 2004
MBA Professor of the Year, UIUC, 2004
Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing & Services Operations Management, 2004

Teaches courses in operations management, manufacturing planning and control, design and management of service systems, and project management.

Research interests include pricing models in operations management, stochastic inventory theory, the operations/marketing interface, and supply chain coordination.