Al Ansari, PhD

Professor

PhD, Production and Operation Management and Industrial Engineering, University of Nebraska, 1984
MS, Operational Research and Quality Control, University of Nebraska
MBA, Production and Operations, University of Detroit
BS, Industrial Operations, Tehran College of Insurance

Phone: 206.296.5718

Office: Pigott 519

Email: aansari@seattleu.edu

Department: Marketing

Web Address: http://fac-staff.seattleu.edu/aansari

Teaching areas: Operations, MBA-Master of Business Administration

In the News:

Al Ansari's article, co-authored with Diane Lockwood and Batoul Modarress, “Target Costing for Lean Manufacturing: A Case Study,” has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Production Research.

Al Ansari's article, co-authored with Diane Lockwood and Batoul Modaress, “Toward a More Comprehensive Model of Inventory Management?,” has been accepted for publication in the Review of Business Research.

Al Ansari's article, co-authored with Mohsen Modarres, “The Effects of Complexity on Business Processes Reengineering: Values and Limitations of Modeling and Simulation Technologies,” has been published in the Review of Business Research. 

Al Ansari taught in the Beijing International MBA (BiMBA) Program in December 2003 and January 2004. Al is the first Albers faculty member to teach in the BiMBA program, which is jointly sponsored by the Jesuit business schools in the US. The program is one of the highest-ranking MBA programs in China.

Al Ansari and Dr. Diane Lockwood and  had a pair of articles accepted for publication. The first titled "Recruiting and Retaining Scarce Information Technology Talent: A Focus Group Study" was published in the journal of Industrial Management & Data Systems. (Volume 99 No. 6; 1999) The second paper entitled, "Supplier Product Integration: A new Competitive Approach" has been accepted for publication in the Production and Inventory Management Journal.