HKUST Lecturer Selected for William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award

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[evdate 1993-05-31] Office of Public Affairs THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF sCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Clear Water Kowloon Hong Kong BOY Tel No : (852) 358 6316 Fax No:(852)3580537 For immediate release 31-5-93 HKUST LECTURER SELECTED FOR WILLIAM W. COOPER DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD Dr Hanesh Gurnani of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has been named the 1993 recipient of the William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award conferred by Carnegie Mellon . . University. The Award honours the best doctoral dissertation in

the area of Business and Ecbnomics to have been submitted to the university during the academic year. Dr Gurnani, who was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Management at HKUST in September 1992, wrote his winning dissertation on the topic of Multi-Plant Coordination: Supply Management in Assembly Systems. The dissertation focusses on procurement techniques in uncertain production environments, an area of research that was motivated by interaction with the electronics and semiconductor industry. In his current research in the area of supply chain management Dr Gurnani is working on the issues of logistics development and analysis and the management of logistics projects. i Dr Gurnani has received several awards for his work, including the William Larimer Fellowship and the President Richard Cyert Fellowship nomination. For enquiries, please contact Mr Louis Ting at 358-6307