Michael J. Fry is Associate Professor of Operations Management. Dr. Fry earned his M.S.E. and Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; he is a summa cum laude graduate of Texas A&M University.

Dr. Fry's research focuses on applying operations management and quantitative analysis to such areas as supply chain management, public policy operations and sports. His work has appeared in the journals Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, Transportation Science, Interfaces and others. His research has been mentioned in the popular press in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, BusinessWeek and The Business Courier.

Dr. Fry serves as the Educational Chairperson for the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, and he is an active member in INFORMS and the Production and Operations Management Society. Dr. Fry is a founding member and Vice-Chair of Publications for the INFORMS Section OR in SpORts. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports and Decision Sciences Journal.

Dr. Fry is on professional leave from the University of Cincinnati for the 2008-09 academic year to serve as Visiting Associate Professor in The Johnson School at Cornell University.

• Two-Way Price Commitment in Multi-period Models, with Y. Liu and A. Raturi
• What are the Odds? A Structured Approach for Unstructured Problems, with M. Bailey
• Allocating DRE Voting Machines to Achieve Efficiency and Equity, with M. Yang and D. Kelton

• Coordinating Production and Delivery Under a (z, Z)-type Vendor Managed Inventory Contract, with R. Kapuscinski and T. Olsen, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 3:2, 151-173, 2001
• Vendor Managed Inventory in a Production Constrained Setting, with R. Kapuscinski and T. Olsen, Book Chapter in New Directions in Supply-Chain Management: Technology, Strategy, and Implementation, The American Management Association (AMACOM), edited by R. Ganeshan and T. Boone, 325-351, 2001
• Firefighter Staffing with Temporary Absences and Wastage, with M. Magazine and U. Rao, Operations Research, 54:2, 353-365, 2006
• Vertically Restrictive Pricing in Supply Chains with Price Dependent Demand, with Y. Liu and A. Raturi, Naval Research Logistics, 53:6, 485-501, 2006
• A Player Selection Heuristic for a Sports League Draft, with J. Ohlmann and A. Lundberg, Journal of Quantitative Analysis of Sports, 3:2, 2007.
• Route Design for Lean Production Systems, with J. Ohlmann and B. Thomas, Transportation Science, 42:3, 352-370, 2008.
• Teaching Problem Solving Techniques to MBA Students through Supply Chain Management, INFORMS Transactions on Education, 8:2, 65-74, 2008.
• A Numerical Analysis of Supply Chain Performance under Split Decision Rights, with B. Bichescu, Omega, 37:2, 358-379, 2008.
• Retail Price Markup Commitment in Decentralized Supply Chains, with Y. Liu and A. Raturi, European Journal of Operational Research, 192:1, 277-292, 2009.
• Vendor-Managed Inventory and the Effect of Channel Power, with B. Bichescu, OR Spectrum, 31:1, 195-228, 2009.
• Workload Balancing Through Recurrent Subcontracting, with B. Bichescu and G. Polak, Production and Operations Management, 18:1, 33-47, 2009.
• Route Design for Delivery of Voting Machines in Hamilton County, Ohio, with J. Ohlmann, Interfaces, Forthcoming.
• An Agent-Based Stochastic Ruler Approach for a Knapsack Problem with Competition-Induced Uncertainty, with M. Gibson and J. Ohlmann, Computers & Operations Research, Forthcoming.
• Transfreight Reduces Costs and Balances Workload at Georgetown Crossdock, with C. Rosales and R. Radhakrishnan, Interfaces, Forthcoming.

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Production and Operations Management Society
• Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

• 2001 - MSOM Best Student Paper Finalist
• 2003 - Appointed to INFORMS Young Researchers Roundtable
• 2006 - Awarded Daniel J. Westerbeck Junior Faculty Graduate Teaching Award
• 2007 - Cincinnati/Dayton INFORMS Outstanding Young Member Award
• 2008 - Finalist, Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice

• PhD - University of Michigan
• MSE - University of Michigan
• BS - Texas A&M University