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LFM News Archive
Profiles in Manufacturing
- Jim Miller, LFM '93 -- 08/06/07
- Jon Rennert, LFM '93 -- 06/29/07
- Rod Copes, LFM '93 -- 04/17/07
- Denise Johnson, LFM '97 --11/02/06
- Hans Laudon, LFM '96 and Prentis D. Wilson, LFM '00 --06/01/06
- Laura Kennedy, LFM '01 --04/03/06
- Michelle Bernson, LFM '04 --03/06/06
- Steve Cook, LFM '98 --01/11/06
Articles
2008
- LFM Kicks Off 20th Anniversary Celebration -- 08/21/08
- Alumnae form Women of LFM affinity group -- 08/14/08
- LFMs at The Boeing Company -- 07/23/08
- Brian Feller, LFM ’08, Wins LFM Best Thesis Award -- 07/11/08
- LFM ’92 Rick Dauch Named Acument CEO -- 06/24/08
- Rosenfield Family Members are Now All MIT Alums -- 06/20/08
- Global Operations Leaders Dinner Held in Shanghai -- 06/02/08
- Ryan Lester receives Harrison Smith Award -- 05/30/08
- Supply Chain Attracting - and Rewarding -- MBAs -- 05/28/08
- Prof. Warren Seering visits CLFM -- 05/22/08
- GM Shanghai plant tour -- 05/20/08
- LFM visits CLFM counterparts on international plant trek -- 05/20/08
- LFM and SDM Co-host Risk Management Conference -- 05/16/08
- Don Rosenfield on CnetNews.com -- A modest proposal to fix Dell's customer service -- 05/13/08
- LFM '04, Michael Brylawski featured in Forbes.com's Special Report:
The Green car, Part Two -- 03/26/08 - PCs to Planes -- 03/16/08
- First year LFM students visit partner companies on 2008 domestic plant trek -- 02/27/08
- Aimee Vessell, LFM ’06, takes leadership reins at Harley-Davidson -- 02/13/08
- Equi named LFM research, internship, alumni manager -- 01/23/08
2007
- Manufacturing in the Heart of Downtown Seattle -- 12/18/07
- CLFM Faculty Prepare for Program’s Future through Studies at MIT -- 12/12/07
- LFM/Sloan MBA Team Takes Top Award in CMU Case Competition -- 11/27/07
- LFM Alums Hold 14th Annual Conference -- 10/26/07
- LFM '91 Pat Shanahan named program chief of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner
program -- 10/18/07 - LFM ’08 Ilyssa Lu awarded "Miss Scholastic Achievement Award" in the 22nd Annual Miss Asian America Pageant in San Francisco -- 10/16/07
- MIT Professors Explore Manufacturing Issues with China’s Future
Manufacturing Leaders -- 10/16/07 - Meet the Next Generation of China’s Manufacturing Leadership -- 10/16/07
- McGraw-Hill publishes third edition of Simchi-Levi book -- 10/12/07
- MIT, LFM Help Kick-off China LFM -- 10/04/07
- LFM’s Newest Cohort is off to a Strong Start -- 10/02/07
- LFM '94 is GM of 2007 WSJ Top Small Biz Pick -- 10/02/07
- Sheffi named director of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division -- 09/24/07
- In Memoriam: Morgan Burke, LFM ‘92 -- 09/21/07
- China LFM Faculty Prepare for September Program Launch -- 09/18/07
- LFM Best Thesis Award Winners -- 06/29/07
- Tour a Boeing Factory; NBC Today Show's Matt Lauer visits our partner company -- 06/18/07
- Family of three aims for 2 LFM degrees -- 06/18/07
- ChanYuin Lee wins 2007 "Harrison" Smith Award -- 06/05/07
- Prof. Warren Seering honored with Frank E. Perkins Award -- 06/01/07
- Prof. Seering named new SDM and LFM co-director -- 05/31/07
- Don Rosenfield co-authors new book, Operations Strategy: Competing in the 21st Century -- 05/18/07
- LFM ‘08s Win Business in Technology Campus Championship -- 05/15/07
- LFMs in Southeast Asia -- 05/14/07
- She's Got Game --04/09/07
- Rebuilding the Tower --03/14/07
- The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers profiles Carlos Gonzalez, LFM '04 --01/31/07
- LFM students connect with Boeing alums --01/30/07
2006
- Interning in Style --12/19/06
- Honeywell Honors Albers, LFM '00 --11/20/06
- Former LFM Faculty Shoji Shiba, Dave Walden publish Breakthrough Management --11/06/06
- Padgalskas honored as Siebel Scholar --10/19/06
- LFM ’06 Scott Hiroshige co-authors paper --10/18/06
- Laura Kennedy promoted at ABB --10/03/06
- Jamie Flinchbaugh Selected for Crain’s Detroit Business 40 Under 40 --09/28/06
- MIT to support creation of international program at Shanghai Jiao Tong University --08/29/06
- China LFM faculty visit, study at MIT --08/09/06
- Former Ford LFM Operating Committee Member Hossein Nivi becomes Dean at University of Detroit Mercy --07/28/06
- MIT ESD tackles interplanetary transportation of supplies, equipment, and humans --07/13/06
- LFM '07 Students on 100K Runner-Up Team --05/25/06
- Marshall Einhorn wins Charles "Harrison" Smith III Award --05/05/06
- Jeff Wilke highlights LFM's influence at Amazon.com --05/01/06
- The LFM Emperors of Ice Cream --05/01/06
- Professor David Simchi-Levi featured in Forbes --05/01/06
- MIT Sloan/LFM team places third in Annual International Tech Strategy Business Case Competition --04/17/06
- LFM student learns global supply chain lessons from internship --03/31/06
- LFM students assist New Orleans blood center --03/15/06
- Randal Pinkett Advises Students --03/09/06
- The Ultimate Test Drive --03/09/06
- LFM alum to lead new Pratt & Whitney business --03/09/06
- Keeping Pace with Tom Allen --03/09/06
- Peter Torgil Haughton 1970 - 2006 --01/26/06
- LFM's Don Rosenfield discusses U.S. manufacturing on NPR --01/25/06
2005
- LFM '98 Jamie Flinchbaugh Co-Authors Hitchikers Guide to Lean --12/21/05
- LFM '98 Randal Pinkett is Donald Trump's New Apprentice --12/16/05
- Technology Transfer in Iraq --12/14/05
- Using LFM Learnings on The Apprentice --11/16/05
- Adopting a Lean Culture at Ford --11/11/05
- Baseball Fever Grips LFM --10/05/05
- MIT-Siemens Study finds global competitiveness, energy efficiency are top concerns of U.S. manufacturers --09/30/05
- LFM '98 Randal Pinkett to Star in "The Apprentice" --09/19/05
- LFM and SDM Alumni to Hold Annual Conferences in October --08/29/05
- Article co-authored by LFM '05 Aaron Raphel appears in INFORMS publication --06/05
- Ronak Shah, LFM '05, Wins Networld Thesis Prize --06/07/05
- MIT Sloan Students Help Junior Achievement --05/16/05
- SDM and LFM Take on GM --05/13/05
- LFM-SDM Co-director and ESD Professor Receive NASA Funding for Interplanetary Supply Chain --05/12/05
- LFM '06s on 50K runner-up team --05/11/05
- Prilutski and Vessell Receive Charles "Harrison" Smith III Award
- Ron Slahetka Appointed LFM Industry Co-Director
- MIT Sloan Students in Patagonia --03/22/05
- Creating to Help Others --03/16/05
- Gaining a New Perspective on Work – and the World! --03/10/05
- Smooth Landing for LFM --03/09/05
- SDM alum and LFM student represent ESD at SHPE Conference --01/28/05
- Mark Martin, LFM '94, Featured in Stanford Magazine --01/04/05
2004
- Annual LFM Alumni Conference Explores Global Manufacturing --12/04/04
- Sloan Lecturer Janice Klein Conducts Web Seminar on True Change: How Outsiders on the Inside Implement Change in Organizations --10/27/04
- Second Edition of "The Logic of Logistics" Published by LFM Co-Director Simchi-Levi --10/27/04
- LFM Alum Jamie Flinchbaugh on Helping Businesses be More Efficient --10/10/04
- LFM '05 Students Named Siebel Scholars --09/23/04
- LFM Class of '06 Visits Raytheon on Annual Plant Tour --08/20/04
- Honeywell Contributes $70K to LFM for Diversity, Plant Tours, and More --08/20/04
- LFM, SDM Students on Winning, Finalist 50K Teams --05/27/04
- LFMs Volunteer at Greater Boston Food Back for Second Year --5/25/04
- Aaron Raphel, LFM '05, Wins Charles "Harrison" Smith III Award --05/24/04
- New Book Published: Handbook of Quantitative Supply Chain Analysis: Modeling in the E-Business Era, David Simchi-Levi et al editors --05/21/04
- Thesis of LFM '94 Michael Raftery Aids Australian War Memorial --04/30/2004
- LFM, SDM Alumni Hear UTC VP Patrick Gnazzo Speak on Compliance, Ethics --04/09/2004
- LFM Students Volunteer During National Engineering Week --03/18/2004
- Don Rosenfield Honored for 15 Years' Service to LFM --03/04/2004
- LFM Alum Jim Lawton Named "Pro to Know" --03/01/2004
- Matt Bromberg, LFM '01, named Pratt & Whitney VP --02/27/04
- UTC Employees Receive System Engineering Certificates --02/27/04
- Complex Systems Research Lab Created --02/03/04
- ESD Student Society Formed --01/29/04
- Kenneth Oye Joins ESD Faculty --01/29/04
- New Associate to Head MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program --01/29/04
- New ESD Courses for Spring 2004 --01/29/04
- The Engineering Systems Symposium -- March 29-31, 2004 --01/29/04
- "Breakthrough Management": A New Book by Shoji Shiba --01/28/04
- Jim Champy Speaks to LFM '05 Students on X-Engineering --01/13/04
- Computer Research Association Names ESD Professor Nancy Leveson as Distinguished Professor --01/13/04
- Professor Joseph Sussman Receives CUTC Award --01/13/04
2003
- LFM Holds Alumni Conference at MIT --12/12/03
- Sloan Team Takes First at Carnegie Mellon's 8th Annual Operations Case Competition --12/11/03
- ESD Participates in NSBE's Regional Conference Held in Boston --11/24/03
- Lean Aerospace Initiative Wins IAA Award --10/31/03
- UTC Starts New Tradition with LFM and SDM Alumni Dinner --10/02/03
- Mark Graban, LFM '99, Gives Webcast Lecture on Lean Manufacturing Software --10/01/03
- Honeywell Donates $75K to LFM Program to Boost Diversity --08/27/03
- LFM and SDM Alumni to Hold Conferences on Oct. 23-24, 2003 --08/18/03
- David Simchi-Levi Named Editor-in-Chief of Naval Research Logistics --07/30/03
- Incoming LFM '05 Class Experiences Orientation Week and the Universe Within --06/16/03
- LFM, SDM, and RISD students collaborate for Eppinger's course --06/12/03
- Professor Lotte Bailyn Speaks to LFM-SDM Staff on Work-Family Integration --06/04/03
- Web seminar: Dell's Steve Cook, LFM '98, on Demand/Supply Balancing Act --06/02/03
- Web seminar: Jan Klein on Globally Dispersed Teams --06/02/03
- ESD Students Sweep Top Five Spots in GM Fuel Cell Case Competition --05/27/03
- LFM-SDM Co-Director Bill Hanson Receives Sizer Award --05/19/03
- Jim Chow and Michelle Bernson, LFM '04, Receive Charles "Harrison" Smith III Award --05/19/03
- LFM G-Lab Students Spend Spring Break Around the World --05/07/03
- Noam Chomsky speaks to LFM-SDM Students on Globalization --05/01/03
- LFM, SDM, and RISD Students Create Accessory Products for the Chevy SSR --04/27/03
- LFM Hockey Report: Captain's Booty, Jedi Knights, and Shiba's Revenge --04/01/03
- Jim Lawton, LFM '90 and Optiant VP, on leveraging design to tame inventory management --04/01/03
- LFMs Volunteer in the Community --03/19/03
- Clayton Christensen and George Mueller discuss The Innovator's Dilemma --03/11/03
- Dan Crocker, LFM '97, Discusses Trade and Globalization for LFM-SDM Webcast --02/11/03
- Whitney Elected as IEEE Fellow --02/05/03
- LFM '04s Travel Across the Country to Tour Various Plants --02/04/03
- LFM Alum and the Human Genome Project --01/03
2002
- Corporate Execs Speak to LFM and SDM Students --12/20/02
- Sloan Talent Show --12/20/02
- Eppinger provides hands-on demonstration for Lifelong Learning Seminar --12/17/02
- Jim Lawton, LFM '90, and Other LFMs Bring Supply Chain Optimization to the Real World --12/2002 (reprinted with permission of MIT Technology Insider)
- LFM-SDM Co-Director Bill Hanson Shares Life-Changing Experiences in Lifelong Learning Seminar --12/03/02
- Lord Swraj Paul Reflects on Life, Business, and Leadership --11/24/02
- Truths and Myths in making career transitions --11/12/02
- Kodak's LFM Internship Process Results in Bottom-Line Impact --11/01/02
- Professor Tom Kochan Speaks at Lifelong Learning Seminar Series --11/01/02
- Jeff Shao, LFM-SDM Finance Director, Receives Excellence Award --10/28/02
- Number of teams and company participation increases in Tiger Teams --10/28/02
- Michael Dell Visits MIT; Speaks to Sloan Community --10/18/02
- Shoji Shiba Honored with Deming Prize --10/15/02
- LFM Alumni Hold 2002 Conference in Detroit --10/04/02
- What's Cool about LFM-SDM and Outward Bound --10/04/02
- Professor David Simchi-Levi Shares His Thoughts on Push-Pull Strategy --09/06/02
- UTC Design Challenge Rings in New Cohort --08/29/02
- LFM-SDM Initiates Lifelong Learning Seminar Series --08/26/02
- LFM '04 No Bats! Softball Team Wins Championship --08/15/02
- LFM '01 Alumni Conference --07/24/02
- Tiger Teams: Marriage between Theory and Practice --07/19/02
- LFM '02s Celebrate Graduation at Annual Breakfast --06/12/02
- Tiger Teams Finish Second Semester --06/10/02
- LFM Alums Demonstrate DEKA's Segway Vehicle to LFM '03s --06/04/02
- David Stagney, LFM '03, Receives Charles "Harrison" Smith III Memorial Award --06/03/02
- Ford's Middle Eastern Community Group Raises Consciousness, Serves Community --06/03/02
- Jeff Wilke, VP of Operations at Amazon.com, Makes His Annual Visit to LFM --05/14/02
- LFM, SDM, RISD and UTC certificate students invent products --05/11/02
- LFM '02 Tom Greenwood Teaches Kids about Engineering --05/01/02
- LFM '98 Jamie Flinchbaugh Named to Manage the Lean Learning Center --04/29/02
- LFM '03s Organize IAP Session on Leadership --04/03/02
- Professor Lester Thurow Speaks to LFM '03s --04/01/02
- Arnie Barnett on Air Safety --02/27/02
- Leadership Lessons from Ground Zero --02/26/02
- Dr. Randall Pinkett, LFM '98, Receives MLK Leadership Award --02/26/02
- LFM '03s among the $1K Warm-up Winners -- 2/25/02
- Professor Shoji Shiba Honored by the International Academy of Quality --02/07/02
- Dr. Randall Pinkett, LFM '98, Turns Low-Income Neighborhood into High-Tech Network --02/04/02
- CMU Case Competition 2001 - LFM '03/Sloan Team Places Second --01/22/02
- Jamie Flinchbaugh, LFM '98, Featured in Fast Company article, "Think Lean" --01/22/02
2001
- LFM's First Tiger Team Works with Local Manufacturer --12/19/01
- Conference on airline safety took on added significance --12/05/01
- Jim Lawton, LFM '90, Named VP of Optiant --11/27/01
- LFM Alumni Apply System Dynamics to Volunteer Project in India --10/31/01
- Professor John Sterman Talks about Process Improvement in Online Seminar --09/28/01
- LFM-Inspired Program Opens at Sabanci University in Turkey --08/16/01
- Renowned Japanese Executive Speaks on "Creativity from Adversity" to LFM '03s --08/09/01
- LFM '01s Named Siebel Scholars --07/02/01
- Bonini of Tritec Revisits LFM --06/18/01
- LFM '02s Visit the Pratt & Whitney Plant in Connecticut --05/30/01
- Shoji Shiba Receives Sloan Teaching Excellence Award; Rebecca Henderson and George Plesko Also Honored --05/22/01
- LFM '02s Visit Wayland High School --05/21/01
- Micah Samuels, LFM '02, Receives Second Annual Harrison Smith Award --05/08/01
- Shoji Shiba and Dave Walden Publish Four Practical Practical Revolutions in Management --05/07/01
- Sara Beckman Receives UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award --05/01/01
- LFM Alum Gary Koerper Featured in Fast Company --05/01
- Bayegan Speaks to LFM '02s on Innovation at ABB -- 04/25/01
- New Balance Executive Provides Company Overview to LFM '02s --04/23/01
- Graves Elected Chair of the Faculty; Eppinger Becomes New LFM-SDM Co-Director --04/20/01
- LFM Alumni Rev! Up New Motorcycle Company --03/30/01
- Online Seminars Connect LFM-SDM Community, Near and Far --03/28/01
- Parsons Brinckerhoff's Henry Michel Speaks at LFM '02's Spring Proseminar --03/28/01
- eRelationships: Mainspring's Dan Greenberg Gives Online Seminar to LFM-SDM Alumni --03/16/01
- LFM and ROTC Give Leadership Training during IAP --03/01/01
- Sloan Students Visit India for "Confluence 2000" --01/22/01
2000
- Sloan Operations Club Wins CMU Operations Case Study Competition --11/17/00
- Michael Dell Speaks at LFM Alumni Conference --11/10/00
- Warren Bennis Speaks at Inaugural Leadership Roundtable --11/09/00
- LFM '02s Go on Axcelis Plant Tour --10/05/00
- Alexander d'Arbeloff: Criteria for Success --10/05/00
- LFM Plant Tour: An Overview of Genzyme's Manufacturing Line --10/05/00
- Pratt & Whitney President Delivers LFM Keynote --09/11/00
- Editorial: The "Aha" of Assets --05/16/00
- Leadership Film Series: October Sky --05/16/00
- Peter Senge: Managerial Effectiveness and Leadership --05/16/00
- Professor Paul Lagace Elected AIAA Fellow --04/18/00
1999
- LFM Hockey: Don Rosenfield Scores Goal! --12/01/99
- David Marsing, Intel VP, Gives Career Advisory to LFMs --11/04/99
- LFM and SDM Form New Partnership --10/19/99
- Alex d'Arbeloff Speaks to LFMs on Starting a New Venture --07/26/99
- Professor Leigh Hafrey Speaks on Narrative, Ethics, and Teaching in the Workplace --07/26/99
- Polaroid's Joe Kasabula Speaks at LFM Proseminar --07/24/99
What's Cool About Manufacturing
- Gavin DeNyse, LFM '01 --01/28/04
- Shawn Patterson, LFM '94 --07/20/03
- Rick Nardo and Jose Valdes, LFM '03 --06/02/03
- Mark Graban, LFM '99 --04/24/03
- Camilla Denison, LFM '92 --01/10/03
- Jamie Flinchbaugh, LFM '98 --11/27/02
- Meghan (McArdle) Scanlon, LFM '00 --10/25/02
- Dan Crocker, LFM '97 --10/04/02
- Alison McCaffree, LFM '99 --09/15/02
- Roland Sargeant, LFM '03 --07/10/02
- Jeffrey Goldberg, LFM '01 --07/01/02
- Linne Kimball, LFM '94, and Anibor Kragha, LFM '03 --05/23/02
- Professor Tom Eagar --03/28/02
- Aaron Fyke, LFM '02 --03/28/02
- Michael Hoag, LFM '02 --02/28/02
- Asoka Veeravagu, LFM '02 --02/27/02
- Rafael de Jesus, LFM '99 --02/06/02
- Mike Peterson, LFM '94 --01/22/02

