Title: Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research, Costello College of Business, George Mason University
Groups: Event Speakers for CIOs, AI and the Outlook for IT Modernization Conference
Cheryl Druehl is the senior associate dean for faculty affairs and research and a professor within the information systems and operations management area in the Costello College of Business at George Mason University. Druehl’s previous appointments include the R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park and Stonehill College. She has a PhD in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Druehl’s research interests are in the areas of product development, supply chain management and sustainable operations. Her recent work studies innovation contests and environmentally-focused product and process development efforts. Other work models the encroachment of a disruptive innovation on an existing product, diffusion of technology from an operations perspective, and outsourcing process and product innovation in the supply chain. She has published research in Productions and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and European Journal of Operational Research.
Druehl serves on the editorial review board of Productions and Operations Management Journal and Journal of Operations Management. She co-edited the special issue of Decision Sciences on Innovation Within and Across Borders. She is a member of the INFORMS and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). She previously served on the board of the POMS College of Product Innovation and Technology Management as the Treasurer and the Vice President - Honors and Awards and served for five years on the board of INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES).
Druehl worked extensively before obtaining her doctorate. As a management consultant at Price Waterhouse LLP, she focused on the design and implementation of warehouse management systems. Prior to that, she worked at MediaServ, a startup computer consulting firm. There, she programmed end-user applications and implemented computer networks and technologies. Druehl began her career as a manufacturing engineer at the Watkins Johnson Company.
Druehl teaches operations management, supply chain management, and management of technology and innovation processes at the MBA, EMBA, and undergraduate levels. She has also taught Executive Education classes on supply chain, service operations, and management of technology both in the U.S. and internationally.