Why do firms do the wrong things and what are the consequences?

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Supply Chain and Operations department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. My research integrates work in operations management with insights from organizational theory and sociology to understand why organizations and individuals engage in organizational misconduct, how we can mitigate it, and what the consequences of such wrongdoing are.

Interests
  • Organizational Misconduct
  • Operations Management
  • Operational Transparency
  • Operational Failure
Education

  • PhD in Supply Chain and Operations (Ongoing)

    University of Minnesota, USA

  • MSc in Quality and Operations Management, 2016

    Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

  • BSc in Industrial Engineering and Management, 2015

    Nordakademie, Germany

Featured Publications

Lifting Statewide Mask Mandates and COVID-19 Cases: A Synthetic Control Study

Importance: As states reopened their economies state and local officials made decisions on policies and restrictions that had an impact …
Finn Petersen, Anna Errore, Pinar Karaca-Mandic
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Lifting Statewide Mask Mandates and COVID-19 Cases: A Synthetic Control Study
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Present­ations

Are Chief Sustainability Officers Guardians of Environmental Justice?
Paper presentation at the 2024 EurOMA Sustainability Forum
Mar 4, 2024 — Mar 5, 2024 Hamburg, Germany
Are Chief Sustainability Officers Guardians of Environmental Justice?
Are Chief Sustainability Officers Guardians of Environmental Justice?
Paper presentation at the 2023 INFORMS Conference
Oct 14, 2023 — Oct 18, 2023 Phoenix, USA
Are Chief Sustainability Officers Guardians of Environmental Justice?
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Teaching

Instructor:

  • Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations (SCO 3001) in 2024

Graduate Teaching Assistant:

  • Big Data Analytics in Supply Chains (SCO 6191) in 2023 (Bhupinder S. Juneja)
  • Operations Excellence via Lean Thinking (SCO 6098) in 2020-2023 (Rachna Shah)
  • Responsible Supply Chain Management (SCO 6094) in 2021, 2023 (Karthik Natarajan)
  • Process Improvement Methods (SCO 6091) in 2021 (David Quimby)
  • Project Management (SCO 6041) in 2020-2022 (David Quimby)
  • Strategic Sourcing (SCO 6045) in 2022 (Anant Mishra)
  • Supply Chain Finance (SCO 6192) in 2022 (Jeff Muradian)
  • Supply Chain and Operations (CMBA 5818) in 2022, 2023 (Anant Mishra)

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant:

  • Project Management (SCO 3041) in 2020-2022 (David Quimby)

Honors & Awards

Best Reviewer Award at AOM Conference
OSCM Division, Academy of Management Aug 2023
An award from the Operations and Supply Chain Management division for excellent reviews for the Academy of Management Conference
Grant for Diversity Equity and Inclusion Research (G-DEIR)
Carlson School of Management Jan 2023
A grant to support business research on diversity, equity, and inclusion from the University of Minnesota
Roger & Marlene Schroeder Outstanding Student Paper Award
Carlson School of Management Sep 2021
Exceptional student achievement awarded by the Supply Chain and Operations faculty early in a Ph.D. student’s journey
1st Place at Interdisciplinary Health Data Competition
Medical Industry Leadership Institute Apr 2021
1st place out of 24 teams of graduate students that completed an exploratory analysis of at least one of the HHS COVID-19 related datasets to assess health disparities and the community impact of COVID-19.

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