Morgan Swink is Professor and Eli Broad Legacy Fellow of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University. He teaches in areas of supply chain management, project management, product development, and operations strategy.

Dr. Swink’s research interests include product/process innovation, operations strategy, and supply chain decision support systems. His current research projects include studies of product/process complexity, operations strategy, knowledge management and innovation practices, and design-manufacturing integration in product development projects. Dr. Swink has published articles in a variety of journals including the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Business Horizons, Research-Technology Management, and the Journal of Engineering Technology Management. He is currently Co-Editor in Chief for the Journal of Operations management. He is also co-author of a digital, print-on-demand operations and supply chain management text, Value-Driven Operations Management: An Integrated Modular Approach, and co-author of the forthcoming text, Managing Operations across the Supply Chain.

Before becoming a professor, Dr. Swink worked for 10 years in manufacturing and product development at Texas Instruments Incorporated. The bulk of his work was in systems producibility engineering, where he managed a team of manufacturing specialists who provided design consulting for internal product development projects. During this time he developed manufacturing design standards and methodologies for implementing design-to-cost and design-for-manufacture principles on product development programs and in product support operations.

Professor Swink holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Methodist University (83), an MBA from the University of Dallas (86), and a Ph.D. in Operations Management from Indiana University (92). He has won several awards for excellence in undergraduate and MBA teaching. His experience in executive education includes workshops and seminars in world-class manufacturing, project management, new product development, manufacturing flexibility, and breakthrough thinking for productivity.