PhD in administration - Logistics and Operations Management
PhD in Administration – Logistics and Operations Management
Are you planning on a career in academia or business in the field of logistics and operations management? Do you want to conduct research using empirical methods or operational research models? Do your PhD at a world-class school, in an internationally renowned community of professors and researchers.
Your PhD in short
- Offered by HEC Montréal jointly with Concordia and McGill universities and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). This partnership gives you access to resources (faculty and courses) rarely available elsewhere in the world.
- Full-time program allowing you to complete your studies in four or five years.
- Tuition fees waived and competitive funding for the first four years of your studies.
- Many links with businesses and research centres.
For a career in academia
of the graduates in this specialization hold positions as professors at universities in Canada, the United States and the Middle East.
Among the best
Our PhD students publish their research in top-tier journals, including:
- Computers & Operations Research
- INFORMS Journal on Computing
- International Journal of Production Economics
- Operations Research
- Transportation Science
The awards won by doctoral graduates are also proof of their excellence.
- The Mercure award for the best doctoral dissertation went to Yossiri Adulyasak in 2014.
- Yossiri Adulyasak also received the Esdras Minville Award in 2013 for his research article titled Optimization-Based Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search for the Production Routing Problem.
- Julie Paquette won the 2010-2011 Jim Davey award from the Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) for the best paper in the doctoral category.
Be part of innovations in research
“I embarked on my PhD studies motivated to develop scientific management insights in the area of service operations management. The faculty immensely helped and encouraged me to conduct research which involved various methodologies including qualitative analysis, empirical methods and quantitative artificial neural network approaches. At no point in my research did I feel left alone.”
Varied research interests
Empirical research
- Healthcare operations management
- Humanitarian logistics
- Operations strategy
- Purchasing management
- Service operations management
- Supply chain management
- Transportation management
Applied operational research
- Hospital logistics and operations
- Humanitarian logistics
- Network design
- Production and distribution planning
- Supply chain analytics
- Transportation and route planning
“The focus on high-quality research enabled me to become a post-doctoral research fellow at MIT (SMART), and next apply my knowledge in practice at a major supply chain solution provider (JDA). Now I can take this experience back into my classroom and my research.”
For more information on the research interests of professors in this Department, see the page on logistics and operations management research at HEC Montréal (in French).
Our PhD students and candidates
See the list of students in this specialization on Google Scholar
An exceptional research milieu
HEC Montréal is a centre of excellence in logistics and operations management, with world-renowned professors in this field. Most of them receive research grants from well-known research organizations, and some hold a research chair or professorship.
- Canada Research Chair in Logistics and Transportation, directed by Jean-François Cordeau
Research professorships
- Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA): Professor Jean Nollet
- Operations planning: Professor Raf Jans
Department faculty and students work closely with several research centres:
- Full time
- Part time
- Day
- Evening
- Week-end
- Downtown
- Côte-des-Neiges
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