John F. Kottas joined the William and Mary's faculty in 1979 as the Zollinger Professor of Business Administration. He earned a BS in industrial engineering from Purdue University and an MS and PhD in management sciences from Northwestern University. Previously he taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Missouri at St. Louis. He has been listed in Who’s Who in America since 1982.
Professor Kottas teaches quantitative analysis, statistics, production/operations management, and business computer applications in the BBA and MBA programs at William and Mary. He has co-authored four textbooks: three computer-spreadsheet-related texts for Richard D. Irwin and a production/operations management text with McGraw Hill. In addition, he has conducted short courses though out the United States and Canada as well as serving as a business consultant.
The research interests of Dr. Kottas span risk analysis, supply-chain management, production scheduling and line design, competitive bidding, and spectator facility design. His most recent article, which appeared in Journal of the Operational Research Society in 2001, examines a non-integrated supply chain where the manufacturer first decides on the wholesale price, then the retailer decides how much to order, and the manufacturer produces the product after receiving the retailers order. Other recent articles, which appeared in IIE Transactions in 1999 and in European Journal of Operational Research in 2000, consider the problem of converting subjective percentile estimates into a fitted probability distribution function. His research has also appeared in the Journal of Operational Research, Management Science, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Operations Management, Computers and Operations Research, OMEGA: the International Journal of Management Sciences, International Journal of Systems Science, Decision Sciences, The Accounting Review, Design Methods and Theories, and Sloan Management Review.
Areas of Interest / Expertise
- Risk Assessment
- Production Scheduling
- Production Line Design
- Competitive Bidding
- Supply Chain Management
- Spreadsheet Applications