Tuck Executive Education -- David F. Pyke

Tuck School of Business

Dartmouth College

David F. Pyke

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Associate Dean for the MBA Program

Benjamin Ames Kimball Professor of the Science of Administration

"In developing supply chain integration strategies, companies must address the disconnect between operations and marketing. When these teams make decisions, they need to carefully coordinate with one another and make decisions based on total costs and benefits. This coordination also needs to extend to supply chain partners outside the company"

Education

BA, Haverford College, 1976; MBA, Drexel University, 1982; MA, University of Pennsylvania, 1987; PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1987. At Tuck since 1987.

Areas of Expertise

Operations management, supply chain management, pricing, inventory systems, product recovery systems, logistics, manufacturing in China, production management, manufacturing strategy

Consulting/ Executive Education

Professor Pyke has taught executives at Tuck and Wharton and in other environments. He has worked with chemical companies in quality control and operations research, and has worked on a consulting basis with Rand Corporation, Accenture, Corning, DHL, Eaton, Marken, McLean-Fogg, Lemmon Company, Black & Decker, and other firms. He has also served as an expert witness on supply chain management for securities cases. He serves on the board of directors of GW Plastics and is a scientific advisor for SignalDemand. Professor Pyke is operating partner of Tuckerman Capital LLC.

Awards

Wharton MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Teaching Award, Spring 1996, 1997

Publications

Professor Pyke's publications include Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling, co-authored with E. A. Silver and R. Peterson (third edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1998) and Teaching Supply Chain Management, co-edited with M.E. Johnson (Production and Operations Management, 2000). He has published numerous papers in such journals as Management Science, Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He serves on the editorial boards for Naval Research Logistics, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, International Journal of Inventory Research, and Operations Management Education Review. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, the American Production & Inventory Control Society, and the International Society for Inventory Research.

Background

Prior to entering the University of Pennsylvania PhD program, Professor Pyke taught mathematics at the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware for seven years. Since 1987, in addition to his work at Tuck, he has taught at the International University of Japan, the Helsinki School of Economics, WHU—Otto-Beisheim-Hochschule, and the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.


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