Jack R. Meredith Endowed Faculty Scholar

Jack Meredith graduated from Oregon State University with degrees in mathematics and mechanical engineering. After working in the aerospace industry for seven years – including on both the Apollo missions and Mars Viking missions – he went on to obtain an MBA and Ph.D. in Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and launched a career in academia. He served as a Professor of Management and the Broyhill Distinguished Scholar and Chair in Operations at the Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Among many other publications, he wrote twelve textbooks, of which three are still in use: “Operations Management for MBAs,” Seventh Edition; “Project Management in Practice,” Seventh Edition; and “Project Management: A Strategic Managerial Approach,” 11th Edition. He was a founding co-editor-in-chief of the Operations Management Research journal and was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Operations Management, the top academic journal in his field. He was named to the OSU Engineering Hall of Fame in 2004.