Mahyar Eftekhar

Harold E. Fearon Fellow of Purchasing Management and Associate Professor,

Department of Supply Chain Management

BA 433 Tempe, AZ 85287
Mail code: 4706

Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio

Mahyar Eftekhar is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business. His research primarily focuses on nonprofit operations management, including health and humanitarian operations. His work has been published in esteemed journals such as Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and the Journal of Operations Management. He is also a Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management.

He has been honored with several awards, including the DARPA Young Faculty Award, DSI Outstanding Early Career Award, Buffa Outstanding Dissertation Award, and the POMS Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management Best Paper Awards.

Education

Ph.D. Operations Management, HEC Paris School of Management, France
M.S. Production & Operations Management, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
B.S. Industrial Engineering, Azad University (South Tehran), Iran

Research Interests

Health and humanitarian operations management
Disaster response operations
Nonprofit operations management

Publications

De La Torre Pacheco, S., M. Eftekhar, C. Wu. 2023. Improving the Quality of In-kind Donations: A Field Experiment. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 25(5): 1677-1691.
Parsa, I., M. Eftekhar, C.J. Corbett. 2022. Does Better Governance Relax the Efficiency Squeeze Experienced by Non-profit Organizations? Production and Operations Management. 31(8): 3288-3303.
Eftekhar, M., J-S. J. Song and S. Webster. 2022. Pre-Positioning and Local-Purchasing for Emergency Operations Under Budget and Supply Uncertainty. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 24(1): 315-332.
Gu, L., I. O. Ryzhov, M. Eftekhar. 2021. The Facts on the Ground: Evaluating Humanitarian Fleet Management Policies Using Simulation. European Journal of Operational Research. 293(2): 681-702.
Keshvari Fard, M., M. Eftekhar, F. Papier. 2019. An Approach for Managing Operating Assets for Humanitarian Development Programs. Production and Operations Management. 28(8): 2132-2151.
Eftekhar, M., H. Li, L.N. Van Wassenhove, S. Webster. 2017. The Role of Media Exposure on Coordination in the Humanitarian Setting. Production and Operations Management. 26(5): 802-816.
Yoo, E., W. Rand, M. Eftekhar, E. Rabinovich. 2016. Determinants of Information Diffusion on Social Media During Humanitarian Crises. Journal of Operations Management. 45 123-133.
Eftekhar, M., L.N. Van Wassenhove. 2016. Fleet management policies for humanitarian organizations: beyond the utilization-residual value trade-off. Journal of Operations Management. 44 1-12.
Eftekhar, M. 2015. Fleet Management In Humanitarian Sector. Decision Sciences. (Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award). 46(2) 447-453.
Eftekhar, M., A. Masini, A. Robotis, L.N. Van Wassenhove. 2014. Vehicle procurement policy for humanitarian development programs. Production and Operations Management. 23(6) 951-964.

Courses

2023 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 345	Logistics Management
SCM 345	Logistics Management
SCM 541	Logistics in the Supply Chain

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 345	Logistics Management
SCM 345	Logistics Management
SCM 541	Logistics in the Supply Chain

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 541	Logistics in the Supply Chain
SCM 344	Applied Logistics Management
SCM 541	Logistics in the Supply Chain
SCM 541	Logistics in the Supply Chain

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 541	Logistics in the Supply Chain

2020 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 493	Honors Thesis
SCM 541	Logistics in the Supply Chain

2020 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SCM 541	Logistics in the Supply Chain

Honors / Awards

2020 Dean's Excellence in Research Summer Grant
2019-2020 Dean's List for Teaching Impact
2019 Dean’s Excellence Award in Research
2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award
2017 Carol J. Latta Memorial DSI Emerging Leadership Award for Outstanding Early Career Scholar
Winner, 2017 POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management Best Paper Award
Runner-up, 2015 POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management Best Paper Award
2014 Elwood S. Buffa Outstanding Dissertation Award from Decision Sciences Institute

Editorships

Production & Operations Management, Senior Editor, 2017-present
Production & Operations Management, Editorial Review Board, 2015-2017
Journal of Operations Management, Editorial Review Board, 2018-present
Ad-hoc Reviewer: European Journal of Operational Research; Management Science; Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Professional Associations

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS); The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Service

Track Co-chair (Public Sector OR): INFORMS Annual Meeting 2022, Indianapolis.
Track Co-chair (Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management): POMS Conference 2019, DC
Track Co-chair (Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management): POMS Conference 2018, Houston
Track Chair of 2018 Elwood S. Buffa Outstanding Dissertation Award (DSI)
POMS HOCM VP, 2018-2019
Session Chair for multiple POMS and INFORMS conferences since 2010

Expertise Areas

Business Analytics

Data Analysis

Nonprofit Operations Management

Operations Management

Operations Strategy