Tim Kraft
Business Management
- Phone: 919.515.7346
- Email: tckraft@ncsu.edu
- Office: Nelson Hall 2344
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
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy in Management Science and Engineering | Stanford University | 2011 |
| MBM | Master of Business Management | The University of Texas at Austin | 2005 |
| MSME | Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering | The University of Texas at Austin | 2005 |
| BSIE | Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1999 |
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
- 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
- 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
- Motivating Supplier Social Responsibility under Incomplete Visibility
- Kraft, T., Valdés, L., & Zheng, Y. (2020), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 22(6), 1107–1286. https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2019.0809
- Sustainable Triple-A Supply Chains
- Erhun, F., Kraft, T., & Wijnsma, S. (2021), Production and Operations Management, 30(3), 644–655. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13306
- Supplier Development in a Multi-Tier Supply Chain
- Karaer, Ö., Kraft, T., & Yalçın, P. (2019), IISE Transactions, 8, 1–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2019.1659523
- Supply Chain Visibility and Social Responsibility: Investigating Consumers’ Behaviors and Motives
- Kraft, T., Valdés, L., & Zheng, Y. (2018), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 20(4), 617–636. https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2017.0685
- Buyer and Nonprofit Levers to Improve Suppliers’ Environmental Performance
- Karaer, Ö., Kraft, T., & Khawam, J. (2017), Production and Operations Management Special Issue on Not-for-Profit Operations Management, 26(6), 1163–1190.
