Edward G. Anderson Jr., Ph.D.

Edward G. Anderson is the Mr. and Mrs. William F. Wright, Jr. Centennial Professor for the Management of Innovative Technology at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business. His research focuses on supply chain innovation, the economics of platform system design, and distributed product development. His current projects center on the structure of business-to-business platforms as well as the role of government policy in supply chain resilience. He has researched industries such as smartphones, automotives, electronics, and healthcare as well as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0.

Anderson has appeared in media including Fox News, the Associated Press, Yahoo, Fortune, and KXAN-TV NBC News. He is a Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society and is the recipient of the Jay W. Forrester Research Award. He has been an editor for supply chain management, information systems, and public policy areas at top academic journals. He is coauthor of Operations Management for Dummies, which has received 4.5 stars from Amazon on over 400 reviews.

Prior to academia, he was a practicing product design engineer in the automotive industry. He received his bachelor’s degree, with a double major in engineering and history, from Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds six patents.