Mark Ferguson
Professor of Management Science
Bio
Dr. Mark Ferguson is a Distinguished Business Foundation Fellow and Professor of Management Science in the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, where he serves as the Director of the Sustainable Enterprise and Development Initiative. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration, with a concentration in Operations Management from Duke University in 2001. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech.
Dr. Ferguson has worked in the reverse logistics area for over ten years; teaching classes on reverse logistics topics, consulting with companies and providing thought leadership of the area through his research. Two of his research papers have won best paper awards from the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and three of his research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation. He has published over forty research papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the co-editor of the book: Closed Loop Supply Chains: New Developments to Improve the Sustainability of Business Practices. He currently serves as the president of the INFORMS Manufacturing and Services Operations Management Society and was formerly the president of the POMS College of Supply Chain Management. Prior to joining the Moore School in 2011, he was the Steven Denning Professor of Technology and Management at the College of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology and spent five years as a manufacturing engineer and inventory manager with IBM.