Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

Sara Beckman

Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment
Haas Operations and Information Technology Management Group
1-510-642-1058
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Academic Status: Off duty
Office Hours: By appointment., F575
Personal Homepage:
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/oitm/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BS, with Distinction, industrial engineering, Stanford University
MS, industrial engineering and engineering management, Stanford University
MS, statistics, Stanford University
Ph.D., industrial engineering and engineering management, Stanford University

Positions Held

ACADEMIC
Haas School of Business (1988 to Present)
1997 -present: Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment
1991 - 97: Director and Lecturer, Management of Technology Program
1988 - 91: Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1994 and 1999)
Spring, 1999: Visiting Lecturer, Leaders for Manufacturing Program
Spring, 1994: Visiting Assistant Professor, Operations Management

INDUSTRY
Hewlett Packard Company (1985 to 1993)
1991 - 93: Organizational Learning Champion, HPLabs
1989 - 91: Director, Product Generation Change Management Team
1989: Manager, Surface Mount Technology Program
1986 - 89: Program Manager, Corporate Manufacturing
1985 - 86: Strategic Planner, Data Systems Division

Booz, Allen and Hamilton (1980 to 1983)
Consultant, Operations Management Consulting Practice

External Service and Assignments

Distinguished Fellow, The Idea Factory
General Chair, POMS Annual Conference, 2002
Co-Editor, California Management Review 2000-2001
Board participation: Building Materials Holding Corporation, Corporate Design Foundation,
Former memberships and board participation: Manufacturing Studies Board, National Research Council, Columbia University, Operations Management Advisory Board, Leaders for Manufacturing, MIT, Operating Committee Member

Current Research and Interests

Innovation and design management
New product development
Operations strategy
Environmental supply chain management

Selected Papers and Publications

"Postponing Design Development Processes in Unpredictable Environments," (with Nuno Gil and Iris Tommelein), Research in Engineering Design: Theory Application and Concurrent Engineering, August 2004
"The Role of Voluntary Industry Standards in Environmental Supply Chain Management: An Institutional Economics Perspective," (with Christine M. Rosen and Janet Bercovitz), Journal of Industrial Ecology, Summer 2003
"Product Recovery with Some Byte: An Overview of Management Challenges and Environmental Consequences in Reverse Manufacturing for the Computer Industry,” (with David Charles White, Eric Masanet, and Christine Meisner Rosen) Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 11, Issue 4, June 2003
"The Knowledge of Design,” foreword to Design Does Matter, Teknion, June, 2001.
Environmental Supply Chain Management in the Computer Industry: A Transaction Costs Economics Perspective,” (with Christine M. Rosen and Janet Bercovitz), Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2001

Teaching

BA 204, Introduction to Operations Management
BA 290A-2 and ME290P, Managing the New Product Development Process: Design Theory and Methodology, Fall 1999
MBA 290, The Post-Dilbert Workspace, Fall 2003

Honors and Awards

Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, MBA Program (2003)
Phi Beta Kappa, 1977
Tau Beta Pi, 1977
Berkeley Campus Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (MBA Program), 1990, 1992
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Evening MBA Program), 1990

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