Sara L. Beckman Sara Beckman teaches new product development and operations management at the University of California’s Haas School of Business. Since joining the faculty in 1987, she developed, institutionalized, and directed the school’s Management of Technology Program and initiated new courses on design, entrepreneurship in biotechnology, new product development, and work and workspace design. She has also taught for Stanford University’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, and been a visiting faculty member at MIT where she taught in the Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) program.

Dr. Beckman also worked for the Hewlett-Packard Company, most recently as director of the Product Generation Change Management Team. This group was responsible for supporting strategic decision-making, workforce planning and design, manufacturing education and training, and environmental, health, and safety management throughout the company. Before joining HP and the Haas School, Dr. Beckman worked in the Operations Management Services practice at Booz, Allen and Hamilton where she had an opportunity to develop manufacturing strategy with a number of diverse companies in industries from pharmaceuticals to aerospace.

Dr. Beckman has BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Stanford University and an MS in statistics from the same institution. She serves on the boards of the Building Materials Holding Corporation and the Corporate Design Foundation. She lives in Marin County, California, with her husband, Chip, and sons, Charley and Alexander. Her stepdaughters Caroline and Elizabeth live in New York and Texas.

Donald B. Rosenfield Donald Rosenfield is a senior lecturer in operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is director of the Leaders for Manufacturing Fellows program (a dual degree master’s program run by the School of Management and the School of Engineering in partnership with leading global corporations). He has served at MIT since 1980 as lecturer, senior lecturer, and visiting associate professor. He has taught at Harvard Business School, the State University of New York, and Boston University. Dr. Rosenfield has helped make the Leaders for Manufacturing Program a groundbreaking program in manufacturing education. Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Rosenfield served on the staff of Arthur D. Little, Inc., from 1976 to 1988, focusing in the areas of logistics and manufacturing strategy.

Dr. Rosenfield focuses on the areas of operations strategy and supply chain management. He has written articles for Harvard Business Review, Operations Research, Management Science, and Sloan Management Review as well as a number of other journals. He is the coauthor of one previous book, Modern Logistics Management.

Dr. Rosenfield has a BS in mathematics, MS in operations research and an EE degree from MIT and a PhD in operations research from Stanford University. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Nancy, and son Adam and has two other children, Jennifer of Newport Beach, California, and Todd of New York.