MBA Courses

Full-time MBA, Operations core
Full-time MBA, Interactive Seminar in Supply Chain Management elective
Full-time MBA, Global Innovation and Technology Commercialization elective (Part of Darden GBE to Israel)
   • Course description and tentative itinerary
   • Projects with start-up companies
MBA for Executives, Operations Core
MBA for Executives, Supply Chain Management elective
Global MBA for Executives, Operations Core

Executive Education Courses

Business Resource Management Program
Advanced Management Program

Biography

Associate Professor of Business Administration Gal Raz teaches Operations at Darden. His research focuses on supply chain strategy including supply chain pricing and contracts and public policy implications of supply chain management such as sustainability and health care. His research has been published in academic journals such as Management Science and Production and Operations Management. He serves as a referee for Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM) and Production and Operations Management (POM).

From 2007 to 2009, he served as the president of the Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) at the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and in 2009 received the INFORMS Moving Spirit Service Award for his work with JFIG. Raz was involved in numerous consulting projects with many companies on topics relating to supply chain management and quantitative modeling in Australia, the United States and Israel. 

Prior to joining the Darden School, he was on the faculty of the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney.

Publications

Published:

Raz G. and Porteus E. (2006), ― "A Fractiles Perspective to the Joint Price/Quantity Newsvendor Model". – Management Science 52 (11), 1764 – 1777.

Laseter T., A. Ovchinnikov, and Raz. G. (2010), ― "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle…or Rethink ," – Strategy + Business 61, 28 – 32.

Özer O. and Raz G. (2011), ― "Supply Chain Sourcing Under Asymmetric Information"– Production and Operations Management 20 (1), 92 – 115.

Raz G. and M. Schlosser (2011) – “Case in Point: How a business can make recycling profitable, as well as noble” – Washington Post

Under Review:

"The Newsvendor Model with Pricing for Public Interest Goods" – with A. Ovchinnikov ― Under review in Production and Operations Management

"Design for the Environment – Life Cycle Approach Using a Newsvendor Model" – with C, Druehl and V. Doctori-Blass ― Under revision in Production and Operations Management

"Economic and Environmental Assessment of Refurbishing Strategies for Product-Service Bundles" – with A. Ovchinnikov and V. Doctori-Blass – Under review in Production and Operations Management.