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Andy Tsay

Associate Professor of OMIS

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Dr. Andy Tsay is an Associate Professor of Operations & Management Information Systems in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, where he teaches primarily in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. He earned his PhD at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He also holds degrees from Stanford in Engineering (MS) and Mathematical & Computational Sciences (BS).

Read about Dr. Tsay's teaching in the Leavey School's 2007 Annual Report (pp.4-7) and about his recent research in the Fall 2008 Mind-Work newsletter (PDF pp.6-7 or HTML). (documents open in new window)

Dr. Tsay's professional focus is the management of design, manufacturing, and procurement in heavily outsourced supply chains.

He has more than 25 professional publications in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Interfaces, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Retailing, and Journal of Supply Chain Management, practitioner periodicals such as Supply Chain Management Review, International Commerce Review, and CPO Agenda (for Chief Procurement Officers) and various books on supply chain management. He serves in senior leadership positions for several of these journals (see bottom of page).

He has consulted for large firms as well as startups in Silicon Valley and China.

He serves frequently as a visiting professor at Peking University, teaching in the Beijing International MBA program, which has honored him with its 2004-2007 Teaching Excellence Award.

In 2007 the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS) recognized Dr. Tsay with the Wickham Skinner Award for Teaching Innovation. POMS is the premier international professional society for the study and practice of Operations Management, with more than 1,100 members in 44 countries. One such award is given each year to honor a professor for a teaching career that demonstrates excellence and innovativeness.

He is a five-time recipient of the all-inclusive Dean's Award for Extraordinary Performance in Research, Teaching, and Service. Along with six each of Extraordinary Teaching Award and Extraordinary Service Award honors, his teaching and service have each been recognized by the Leavey School of Business in eleven different years.

He has twice held the Breetwor Family Fellowship, which is awarded to tenured faculty members who have distinguished themselves as teaching scholars and are making notable service contributions to the School, the University, and the profession. He earlier held a Dean Witter Foundation Fellowship, awarded to select junior faculty deemed to be promising teaching scholars.

In 2000, he was named Santa Clara University's Outstanding Faculty Advisor of a Student Organization for his work with the OMIS Student Network, which won the Dean's Award for Outstanding Business Student Association that year. Under Dr. Tsay's supervision, the OMIS Student Network also won the University Award for Outstanding New Educational Program (2001), the Business School Award for Service to the Community (2002) and the Business School Award for Enhancing Students' Career Development (2002).

Dr. Tsay currently serves as an "Open Classroom" professor, one of six (and the only business professor) invited by the Provost’s Office to serve as teaching mentors for colleagues across the university.

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