Management Manufacturing

SARA L. BECKMAN

Co-Director, (MOT)

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Research and Teaching

Experience

Presentations and Refereed Conference

Proceedings

Education, Doctor of Philosophy,, December 1986.

Doctoral Dissertation: "Manufacturing Flexibility and Organizational Structure" Advisor: James V. Jucker

A model of the achievement of flexibility by a manufacturing organization. Defines types of flexibility and the mechanisms that can be used for their achievement, including organizational structuring mechanisms as well as traditional production/inventory tools. Empirical evidence is found that supports hypotheses derived from the proposed model of flexibility. Results provide insights for research into cost versus flexibility trade-offs.

Stanford University, Master of Science, Statistics, June 1985.

Stanford University, Master of Science, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, June 1978.

Stanford University, Bachelor of Science with Distinction, Industrial Engineering, June 1978. Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi.

Research and Teaching Experience,, July 1994 to present. Co-Director, and Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment in Management of Technology. Teaching introductory operations management course to MBA students, developing courses on new product development, management of software development and the biotechnology industry. Managing joint program with in Management of Technology. Researching issues in high technology management, manufacturing strategy, new product development and green design and manufacturing.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 1994 to July 1994. VisitingAssistant Professor, Operations Management Teaching introductory operations management course to MBA students and to Leaders for Manufacturing students.

Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, July 1991 to January 1994. Co-Director, Management of Technology Program and Lecturer in Management of Technology.Teaching introductory operations management course and manufacturing strategy course to MBA students, developing course on industrial design in business. Managing joint program with College of Engineering in Management of Technology. Researching issues in product definition. Earned the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching in the MBA Program in 1992.

Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, September 1988to July 1991. Assistant Professor, Management Science Teaching manufacturing strategy to undergraduate and MBA students, information systems management to PhD students. Research on manufacturing flexibility and other strategy issues. Earned the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching twice in 1990, once in the MBA Program and once in the Evening MBA Program.,, January 1985 to September 1985. Research Assistant. Collecting and analyzing data for research on the characteristics of the learning curve in aerospace companies. Examining sites for studying the impact of automation on organizations.

Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, September 1984 to April 1985, January 1984 to June 1984, September 1977 to June 1978. Teaching Assistant. Undergraduate advising; teaching and grading in courses on computer utilization, problem solving, organizational behavior, financial decision-making, industrial marketing and manufacturing strategy.

Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, September 1978 to June 1980. Teaching Fellow. Instructed a required course on "Utilization of Computers." Taught about 60 students the first year and 120 in the second year.

Professional Experience, November 1991 to January 1993.Organizational Learning Champion, Software Reuse Department, HP Labs.Assisted HP Labs in organizational transformation project. Research on product definition and new product development activities in software development organization. Developing parallels between manufacturing models, learning-based models and software development models.

Hewlett-Packard Company, November 1989 to November 1991. Director, Product Generation Change Management Team. Managed consulting services in organizational design, manufacturing education and training and strategic planning and modeling along with company-wide environmental, health and safety function.

Hewlett-Packard Company, February 1989 to November 1989. Manager, Surface Mount Technology Program.Managed rollout of centrally developed standard surface mount assembly processes to HP sites worldwide. Controlled capacity and site location, parts standardization programs.

Hewlett-Packard Company, February 1986 to February 1989. Program Manager, Corporate Manufacturing Developed long-term manufacturing strategy on a corporate-wide basis. Focus on plant location issues, including international. Prepared a process costing model to evolve into a process cost accounting system.

Hewlett Packard Company, June 1985 to February 1986. Strategic Planner, Data Systems Division.Strategy development and competitive analysis for computer business.

Management Consultant, Self-employed, January 1984 to August 1984, January 1985 to June 1985.Long-range manufacturing planning, business divestment planning, manufacturing systems acquisition and implementation.

Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc., August 1980 to December 1983. Management consulting in the Operations Management Services practice.

InfoSci, Inc., March 1979 to June 1980. Led seminars on structured

programming techniques for industrial systems analysts and programmers.

Academic Publications

Beckman, Sara L. and David C. Mowery, "Corporate Change and Competitiveness: The Hewlett-Packard Company," forthcoming in Corporate Strategy, Organization, Innovation and Performance in Large Electronic Companies, London School of Economics, 1996.

Beckman, Sara L., "The Evolution of a Networked Organization: An Insider's View of the Hewlett-Packard Company," Broken Ladders, ed. Paul Osterman, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Beckman, Sara, Paul Worhach and Paul S. Sheng, "Environmentally-Conscious Supply Chain Management," IEEE Transactions, 1995.

Beckman, Sara L., "Hewlett-Packard Company," in The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: High Performance Product Development in the 1990's, eds. H. Kent Bowen, Kim B. Clark, Charles A. Holloway, Steven C. Wheelwright, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Holloway, C., J. Solberg, H. Edmondson, S. Beckman., "Pushing the Performance Envelope," in The Perpetual Enterprise Machine: High Performance Product Development in the 1990's, eds. H. Kent Bowen, Kim B. Clark, Charles A. Holloway, Steven C. Wheelwright, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Bacon, Glenn, Sara Beckman, David Mowery and Edith Wilson, "Managing Product Definition in High-Technology Industries: A Pilot Study," California Management Review, Volume 36, Number 3, Spring 1994.

Argote, Linda, Sara L. Beckman and Dennis Epple, "The Persistence and Transfer of Learning in Industrial Settings," Management Science, Vol. 36, No, 2, February 1990.

Kropp, Dean, Robert C. Carlson and Sara L. Beckman, "A Note on Stopping Rules for Rolling Production Scheduling," Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 3, No. 3, May 1983.

Carlson, Robert C., Sara L. Beckman and Dean H. Kropp, "The Effectiveness of Extending the Horizon in Rolling Production Scheduling," Decision Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1982.

Presentations and Refereed Conference Proceedings

"Integration of the Customer in the Software Product Definition Process," INFORMS, October 1995

"Management of Technology Programs -- Comparison and Future Trends," Panelmember representing Berkeley MOT Program, INFORMS, October 1995

"Integrating Green Objectives in New Product Design," INFORMS, October 1995.

"Management of Product Definition in the Software Industry," ORSA/TIMS, April 1994.

"Product Definition in Concurrent Engineering: The Case of Software Development," ORSA/TIMS, May 17, 1993.

"Special Track for Executives and Deans of Business and Engineering Schools," Chair, POMS, Boston, October 1993.

"Managing the Product Definition Process," ORSA/TIMS, San Francisco, November 1992.

Beckman, Sara L., Invited Commentary on "Cross-Functional Teams: Blessing or Curse for New Product Development?," Deborah Gladstein Ancona and David E. Caldwell, Transforming Organizations, eds. Thomas A. Kochan and Michael Useem, Oxford University Press, 1992.

"Manufacturing Innovation: A Case Study," invited presentation to CORS/ORSA/TIMS, Vancouver, May 1988.

Professional Publications

Beckman, Sara L., "The Process of Managing Product Definitions in Software Product Development," in Handbook of Technology management, ed. Gerard H. Gaynor, McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Beckman, Sara and Doug Braithwaite, "Creating the Perpetual Enterprise Machine: Learning from One Another About New Product Development," Target: Innovation at Work, The Periodical of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Vol. 10, No. 6, November/December 1994.

Beckman, Sara L., "Developing Strategy in a Manufacturing Business," American Management Association Handbook, Third Edition, ed. John J. Hampton, AMACOM, 1994.

Beckman, Sara L. and David Mowery, "Getting the Right Products to Market: A Study of Product Definition in the Electronics Industry," Design Management Journal, Spring 1993.

Beckman, Sara L., "How Much Flex Is There In Flexforce?," Target: Innovation at Work, The Periodical of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Vol. 7, No. 3, Special Issue, 1991.

Beckman, Sara L., William A. Boller, Stephen A. Hamilton and John W. Monroe, "Using Manufacturing as a Competitive Weapon: The Development of A Manufacturing Strategy," Strategic Manufacturing: Dynamic New Directions for the 1990's, ed. Patricia E. Moody, Dow Jones-Irwin, APICS Series in Production Management.

Beckman, Sara L., "Manufacturing Flexibility: The Next Source of Competitive Advantage," Strategic Manufacturing: Dynamic New Directions for the 1990's, ed. Patricia E. Moody, Dow Jones-Irwin, APICS Series in Production Management.

Beckman, Sara L. and Harold E. Edmondson, "Strategic Process Deployment: SMT at Hewlett-Packard," Managing the SMT Challenge: Implementing Quality in Assembly, ed. Charles-Henri Mangin, Springer-Verlag, 1990.

Mayer, Robert J., Kush K. Agarwal and Sara L. Beckman, "Manufacturing Strategy," American Management Association Handbook, 2nd Edition, January 1983.

Invited Seminars and Colloquiums

"The Keys to Successful Product Definition," Concurrent Engineering and Product Development: Best Practices-- Concept to Delivery, Eighth International Conference of The Management Roundtable, November 2-4, 1994, Orlando, Florida. (Invited speaker)

"Learning by Design or Design by Learning?," Raychem Key Expert Panel on Innovation, September 1994.

"Learning in the Packaged Software Product Development Process," Organizational Learning in the U.S. and Japan: Tapping the Power of Adaptive Change, The MIT Japan Program, April 1994.

"Organizational Issues in the Management of Technology," International Conference on Technology Management, Denver, Colorado, April 1994.

"Learning in Technology Partnerships," Panel Chair, Economic Revitalization through Technology Management, CRM-sponsored conference, Berkeley, April 1993.

"Bridging the Gap: Business Education and the Strategic Business Value ofDesign," Industrial Designers Society of America, Western District, San Francisco, April 1993.

"Globalization of Manufacturing," Panel chair, 3rd International Conference on Technology Management, October 1992.

Memberships and Board Participation

Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo, Industrial

Engineering Advisory Board, 1994 to present

Manufacturing Studies Board, National Research Council, 1992 - 1994

Columbia University, Operations

Management Advisory Board, 1989 - 1992

Leaders for Manufacturing, MIT,

Operating Committee Member, 1988 - 1992

California Management Review

Editorial Board, Fall 1995 - present

Corporate Design Foundation Journal

@issue Editorial Board, Spring 1995 - present

Business and Engineering Deans'

Advisory Committee, Fall 1993 - present

Lester Center Faculty Advisory Board,

Fall 1991 - present

Management of Technology Advisory Board, Fall 1991 -

present

College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Committee for Engineering

and Business Administration, 1990 - present

Association of Manufacturing Excellence

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