Nonprofit Operations and Supply Chain Management

Gemma Berenguer is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow and an Associate Professor of Management at Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), Spain. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a faculty member at Purdue University before joining UC3M. Gemma’s major research topics are related to nonprofit supply chain management, sustainable operations, and supply chain design and has published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, M&SOM, Production and Operations Management, and Journal of Operations Management. She serves as senior editor for POM journal and an associate editor for Operations Research journal. Among different accomplishments, she has won the Skinner Best paper award at POM journal (2018) and was awarded the SOLA Informs Bi-annual Dissertation Award. Gemma serves as the VP Europe at POMS and was the 2023 President of the Public Sector Operations Research Section at INFORMS. Milind G. Sohoni is a Full Professor and Chair of the OMS department at the School of Management, University at Buffalo (UB), the State University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. Before joining UB, he was a full professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB), India. He also served as the Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research and the Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs at ISB.  Professor Sohoni’s major research areas include transportation and logistics (aviation, rail, and urban mobility), supply chain analytics, nonprofit operations, and healthcare operations. He teaches at the Masters, Ph.D., and Executive levels. He has published in leading journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, M&SOM, Production and Operations Management, and Transportation Science. He serves as a Senior/Associate Editor at Operations Research, M&SOM, and POM journals. Among different accomplishments, he has won the Aviation Application’s Best Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the G. B. Dantzig Best Dissertation Award. His work with Delta Air Lines was a finalist at the Wagner prize competition.  Professor Sohoni currently serves as the VP of Research for POMS India Society.

Introduction to nonprofit operations and supply chain management research.- Funding and Resource Allocation in Nonprofit Operations.- Linking Nonprofit Operations and Donor Preferences to Improve Societal Benefits.- Reshaping Charity Channels: How Assets Flow into and out of Donor-Advised Funds.- Rethinking Frontline Nonprofit Operations: The Role of Aggregator Organizations.- Sharing the schedule: nonprofit staffing for volunteers and employees.- Full-time Volunteering in the Nonprofit Sector: An Empirical Study from the Education Sector in India.- Exploring the Landscape of Online Volunteering.- Cryptocurrency Philantropy.- A Research Framework on Digital Platforms and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management.- Transportation Problems in Humanitarian Supply Chains.- Food Bank Supply Chain and Operations in a Data-Driven World: Objectives, Challenges, and Opportunities.- Overview on Nonprofit Healthcare Organizations: Theories, Ownership Conversions and Policy Impacts.- Child Welfare Services in the United States: An Operations Research Perspective.- A service Quality Lens in Examining the Dual-Customer Strategy of State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies in the United States.