Faculty Biographies

Elizabeth J. Durango-Cohen

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

Office: 4A2-2
E-Mail: durangocohen@iit.edu
Phone: 312-567-3959
Fax: 312.567.3950

Education

• B.S., Sonoma State University, 1994
• M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 1996
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002

Affiliated Programs

Research Interests

• Supply Chain Management
• Incentives, Contracts and Information in Supply Chains
• Inventory and Production Planning
• Capacity/Pricing Issues

Biography
Professor Durango-Cohen is an assistant professor of Operations Management at the Stuart School of Business. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002. She also holds a Certificate in Management of Technology from the Walter A. Haas School of Business. Prior to joining Stuart, she was a faculty member at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. Her current research focuses in the area of production planning and inventory control in the context of supply chain management. Professor Durango-Cohen has also worked as an intern/consultant for Hewlett-Packard and Solectron corporations.