Dimitrios Brachos Supervising Committee
Gregory P. Prastacos
Gregory P. Prastacos is Professor of Management Science at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business, and Director of the Graduate Program in Decision Sciences. He has been educated at Columbia University, where he received a BSc in Computer Science, an MSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Operations Research. He has previously taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University, and has held visiting appointments at the University of Bern in Switzerland, the University of Paris-Dauphine in France, the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France.
Professor Prastacos' research, professional and teaching interests are in the areas of Management Science and Information Technology, and their use for Business Transformation in the Information Society. He has published 7 books (some of them in their 4th edition), and more than 60 papers in academic journals and edited volumes. His work has appeared in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Omega, Journal of Operational Research Society, European Management Journal, Information & Management, Interfaces, Computers & Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Decision Systems, RAIRO and others. For his work on perishable inventory management he has been awarded the 1979 Management Science Achievement Award by the Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS). For his work on financial management modelling, he has been awarded the 1st prize of the Hellenic Operational Research Society.
Klas Eric Soderquist
Klas Eric Soderquist is Associate Professor of Operations and Quality Management at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business (Groupe ESC Grenoble), France and Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in Decision Sciences at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from Henley Management College and Brunel University, and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
His research concentrates on R&D management in supplier firms, innovation management, knowledge management and technology management. He has published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the Journal of Small Business Management, Business Horizons, Total Quality Management and European Management Journal, among others.