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Chester Chambers Faculty Bio

Chester Chambers

Chester Chambers, PhD
Assistant Professor

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
100 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 234-9410
cchamber@jhu.edu

Chester Chambers, PhD (Operations Management, Duke University) joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2009. He is an Assistant Professor in the research track with expertise in the areas of operations management strategy, dynamic programming and modeling. 

Honors and Distinctions

  • Senior Editor – Production and Operations Management, 2007-Present.
  • Editorial Board, Manufacturing and Services Operations Management, 2004-2005
  • Recipient of Cox Research Fellowship – 2005 and 2006
  • Recipient of Dunleavy Research Fellowship – 2007, 2008

Selected Publications

  • Chambers, C., E. Snir, A. Asad. 2009. The Use of Flexible Manufacturing Capacity in Pharmaceutical Product Introductions. Decision Sciences.
  • Chambers, C., P. Kouvelis, J. Sample. 2006. Quality-Based Competition, Profitability, and Variable Costs. Management Science, Vol. 52 (12), 1884 – 1895.
  • Chambers, C., P. Kouvelis, H. Wang. 2006. Supply Chain Management Research in Production and Operations Management. Production and Operations Management, Vol 15 (3), 449-469.
  • Chambers, C., P. Kouvelis. 2006. Modeling and Managing the Percentage of Satisfied Customers in Hidden and Revealed Waiting Line Systems. Production and Operations Management, Vol 15 (1), 103-116.
  • Kouvelis, P., C. Chambers, D. Yu. 2005. Manufacturing Operations Manuscripts Published in the First 52 Issues of POM: Review, Trends and Opportunities. Production and Operations Management, Vol 14, 450-467.

Works in Progress

  • Chambers, C., P. Kouvelis, E. Snir. 2008. Lead-Time Based Supply Contracts and Coordination
  • Chambers, C., E. Snir. 2008. Coordinating Buy-Back Contracts under Asymmetric Information
  • Chambers, C., E. Snir, A. Asad. 2008. An LP Approach to Stochastic Dynamic Programming and the Evaluation of Manufacturing Flexibility

Teaching Interests

  • Management of Service Operations
  • Operations Management Core
  • Operations Strategy
  • Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Advanced Manufacturing Strategy