Short professional biography
Fabrizio Salvador is currently a Professor of Operations at IE Business School, IE University, where he also serves as vice-rector for Applied Research. His award-winning research focuses on how organizations recombine or reuse their resources to respond to uncertainty in their operational environments. His work has received over 5,000 citations on Google Scholar and has been published in leading academic and business outlets such as the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Organization Science, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Dr. Salvador is also the Founding Department Editor for the Journal of Operations Management and Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management, as well as an Associate Editor for the Decision Sciences Journal. He strongly supports industry-academia collaboration, which he has promoted through education and research projects with prestigious companies including AstraZeneca, CAP Gemini, DHL, Ernst & Young, IBM, John Deere, Nokia, Permasteelisa, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Xerox, Telefónica, Tetra Pak, and Unilever. He has lectured to PhD, MBA, and Executive groups in countries such as Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, Guatemala, and China.
Publications & Research:
- GLOBAL PROJECT NETWORKS: “Enabling Distributed Projects: Effects of Product Interface Match and Related Technical Experience” (2020). Production and Operations Management
- PROJECT LEADERSHIP & PROJECT OUTCOMES: “Project Managers’ Breadth of Experience, Project Complexity, and Project Performance” (2021) Journal of Operations Management.
- Full research profile: Google Scholar
Affiliations:
- Vice-rector, Applied Research & Professor of Operations, IE Business School-IE University
- Past affiliations: Arizona State University, MIT Logistics Program & Media Lab, University of Padova
Expertise: Operational Excellence & Learning, Flexibility and Project Management
