Notes on Contributors

Editors

Cynthia Barnhart is Chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ford Professor of Engineering. She has developed and teaches courses including Carrier Systems, Optimization of Large-Scale Transportation Systems, Airline Schedule Planning, and the Airline Industry. Her research activities have focused on the development of optimization models and methods for designing, planning, and operating transportation systems. She currently serves or has served as Area Editor (Transportation) for Operations Research, as Associate Editor for Operations Research and for Transportation Science, as President of the INFORMS Women in Operations Research/Management Science Forum, as President of the INFORMS Transportation and Logistics Section, and as President of INFORMS. At MIT, Professor Barnhart has served as Associate and Interim Dean of Engineering, as Co-Director of the Operations Research Center, and as Co-Director of MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and has been awarded the Franz Edelman 2nd Prize for Achievement in Operations and the Management Sciences, the Junior Faculty Career Award from the General Electric Foundation, the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the First Prize Award for Best Paper in Transportation Science & Logistics, and the INFORMS award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and Management Science.

Peter P. Belobaba is Principal Research Scientist at MIT's International Center for Air Transportation, in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He holds a Master of Science in transportation and a Ph.D. in flight transportation systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He currently teaches graduate level courses on the Airline Industry, Airline Management, and Air Transportation Operations Research at MIT and is the Program Manager of the MIT Global Airline Industry Program. He directs the Passenger Origin–Destination Simulator (PODS) MIT Research Consortium funded by 10 international airlines to explore issues of demand forecasting, seat inventory optimization, and competitive impacts of revenue management. Dr. Belobaba has also worked as a consultant to more than 50 airlines worldwide. He has published articles dealing with airline pricing, revenue management, competition, operating costs, and productivity analysis in Airline Business, Operations Research, Transportation Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, Transportation Research, and the Journal of Air Transport Management.

Amedeo R. Odoni is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. He has served as Co-Director of the FAA's National Center of Excellence in Aviation Education, Co-Director of MIT's Operations Research Center, Co-Director of the Airline Industry Program at MIT, Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Science, and consultant to numerous international airports and aviation-related organizations and projects. The author, co-author, or co-editor of 9 books and more than 100 other technical publications, he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and the recipient of several distinctions, among them the INFORMS Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Transportation Science, the T. Wilson Endowed Chair at MIT, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s National Award for Excellence in Aviation Education, a Honorary Ph.D. from the Athens University of Economics and Business, and four MIT awards for excellence in teaching, mentoring, and advising. His students have also received many prizes for their research and dissertations.

Contributors

Greg J. Bamber is Professor in the Department of Management at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His (joint) publications include Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees (Cornell) and International and Comparative Employment Relations (Sage). He has published many articles and is on the editorial board of international refereed journals. His research includes outsourcing/shared services, dispute settlement, and workplace change, in industries as diverse as airlines, education, hospitals, manufacturing, public sector, and telecommunications. He researches and consults with international agencies, governments, companies, and other organizations. He has served as an arbitrator for the British Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, President of the Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management, and President of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. He was educated at Manchester University, London School of Economics, and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He is Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, England and has also been a visitor at Harvard, MIT, and other universities.

Arnold I. Barnett is George Eastman Professor of Management Science at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He holds a BA in physics from Columbia College and a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. His research specialty is applied mathematical modeling on issues of policy importance; aviation safety is one of his primary areas of emphasis. Professor Barnett has authored or co-authored nearly 100 published papers. His research articles about aviation safety have been extensively summarized in, among others, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, The Economist, and Newsweek. He has served many times as consultant to the FAA, TSA, and their contractors, and to 6 airports and 14 airlines. Barnett has studied passenger mortality risk in commercial aviation, public perceptions of and reactions to the risks of flying, and such specific safety issues as weather hazards, runway collision risk, adoption of free flight routings, and the dangers of terrorism. He was chair over 1996–1998 of the FAA's Technical Team about Positive Passenger Bag Match, and in 2008–2010 of the North Airfield Safety Study at Los Angeles International Airport. In 2002, he received the President's Citation from the Flight Safety Foundation for “truly outstanding contributions on behalf of safety.”

Jody Hoffer Gittell is Professor of Management at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Executive Director of the Relational Coordination Research Collaborative, and Chief Scientific Officer for Relational Coordination Analytics, Inc. Her research explores how workers contribute to quality and efficiency outcomes through their coordination with each other, and with their customers and leaders. Her research has been published in a wide range of scientific journals, as well as several books. Her newest book, Transforming Relationships for High Performance (Stanford University Press), offers a multi-interventional model of organizational change. In The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance (McGraw-Hill) and in High Performance Healthcare: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve Quality, Efficiency and Resilience (McGraw-Hill), she describes how relational coordination works in both airlines and the healthcare sector. She was co-author of Up in the Air: How the Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees (Cornell), which analyzes the transformation of the global airline industry. Gittell received her Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and serves on the boards of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, the Endowment for Health, and the Academy of Management Review.

R. John Hansman, Jr. is the T. Wilson Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and Director of the MIT International Center for Air Transportation. He conducts research on information technologies applied to air transportation in several areas related to flight vehicle operations, air traffic control, and safety. Dr. Hansman holds 6 patents and has authored over 250 technical publications. He has over 5900 hours of pilot-in-command time in airplanes, helicopters, and sailplanes, including meteorological, production, and engineering flight test experience. Professor Hansman chairs the FAA Research and Development Advisory Committee. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received the 1996 FAA Excellence in Aviation Award, the 2004 Dryden Award for Aeronautics Research and the 1994 Losey Atmospheric Sciences Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the 2006 Kriske Award for Career Contributions from the Air Traffic Control Association.

Thomas A. Kochan is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He has done research on a variety of topics related to industrial relations and human resource management in the public and private sectors. His recent books include Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda (2005), Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Workforce (2009), and Healing Together: The Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership (2009). His 1986 book The Transformation of American Industrial Relations received the annual award from the Academy of Management for the best scholarly book on management. Professor...