Tim Kraft

Business Management

Tim Kraft’s research examines environmental and social responsibility issues in supply chains. Research topics he has studied include investigating how supply chain transparency can influence consumers’ and companies’ decisions in social responsibility contexts, examining collaborative methods to motivate suppliers to improve their sustainability practices, and studying companies’ and non-governmental organizations’ decisions regarding environmental investment decisions.

Tim’s research has appeared in leading operations management journals such as Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. In 2020, he was named co-winner of the POMS Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability. For his teaching and case writing, Tim was named the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Member at the University of Virginia (Darden) and is a two-time winner of the INFORMS Case Competition.

Tim previously taught at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and was a visiting faculty at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He received his doctorate degree from Stanford University.

 

Research Interests

  • Supply Chain
  • Sustainability
  • Social Responsibility

 

Education

DegreeProgramSchoolYear
Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy in Management Science and Engineering Stanford University2011
MBMMaster of Business Management The University of Texas at Austin2005
MSMEMaster of Science in Mechanical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin2005
BSIEBachelor of Science in Industrial EngineeringGeorgia Institute of Technology1999

Honors and Awards

  • 2021 | MSOM Meritorious Service Award

 

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Publications

Environmental Regulation Design: Motivating Firms' Clean Technology Investments With Penalties and Subsidies
Mohammadi, M., Heese, H. S., & Kraft, T. (2024, February 11), PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, Vol. 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/10591478231224911
Setting the deadline and the penalty policy for a new environmental standard
Golmohammadi, A., Kraft, T., & Monemian, S. (2024), EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, 315(1), 88–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2023.11.014
Supply Chain Disruption Game
Kraft, T., & Zheng, Y. (2023). , [Simulation]. Fathomd, Inc.
Supply Chain Transparency and Sustainability
Kraft, T., Yu, J. V., & Zheng, Y. (2023), Foundations and Trends® in Technology, Information and Operations Management, 17(2), 82–154. https://doi.org/10.1561/0200000107
The Effects of CSR Performance and Price on Consumer Purchase Decisions - A Moderated Mediation Analysis
Kraft, T. (2023), MSOM Annual Meeting. Presented at the MSOM Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.
Consumer Pressure Is Key to Fixing Dire Labor Conditions in the Clothing Supply Chain
Handfield, R., Kraft, T., & Moore, M. (2022), In Supply Chain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Review Press.
Consumer trust in social responsibility communications: The role of supply chain visibility
Kraft, T., Valdes, L., & Zheng, Y. (2022, August 2), PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13808
Examining the Impact of Monitor Leniency on Supplier Audits
Kraft, T. (2022), MSOM Annual Meeting. Presented at the MSOM Annual Meeting, Munich, Germany.
How Supply Chain Transparency Boosts Business Value
Kraft, T., & Zheng, Y. (2021), Sloan Management Review, 63(1).
Supply Chain Transparency at Goodio Chocolate
Hämäläinen, M., Kraft, T., Thomas, D., & Zheng, Y. (2021), In J. M. Swaminathan & V. Deshpande (Eds.), Responsible Business Operations (pp. 225–241). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51957-5_11

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Tim Kraft