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Jason Amaral
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Jason Amaral is managing director of Emeraldwise, a consultancy that advises companies on operations and marketing strategy. Prior to founding Emeraldwise, Amaral worked in operations and strategy roles at Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, Alcan, SeeCommerce, and Adexa. While at Hewlett-Packard, he led the Design for Supply Chain practice area for Strategic Planning and Modeling. Amaral is also an adjunct professor at the Olin Business School (Washington University in St. Louis) and serves on the alumni advisory council for MIT's Engineering Systems Division.

Publications

Jason Amaral, Andy A. Tsay (2009), How to Win “Spend” and Influence Partners: Lessons in Behavioral Operations from the Outsourcing Game, Production & Operations Management

Jason Amaral, Geoffrey Parker (2008), Prevent Disasters in Design Outsourcing, Harvard Business Review

Jason Amaral, Dorothea Kuettner (2008), Analyzing Supply Chains at HP Using Spreadsheet Models, Interfaces

Linda Nordgren, Jason Amaral (2008), Continuous Improvement from Supply Lines Through Checkout Lines: Safeway's Experience, The Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum

Jason Amaral, Corey A. Billington, Andy A. Tsay (2006), Safeguarding the Promise of Production Outsourcing, Interfaces

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Personal Interests:
Married with one son, Jason lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He enjoys hiking, biking, and backpacking.

Jason Amaral
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone:
jamaral@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Marketing/engineering/manufacturing interfaces, design for supply chain, international operations, outsourcing and offshoring, supply chain management, applications of decision science and operations research, behavioral operations.

Last Modified November 11, 2009