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Margaret Noble
Associate Professor of Management


Office: Faculty Suite B
Phone: (401) 232-6313
E-mail: mnoble@bryant.edu

education:
Ph.D. in Operations Management, Indiana University
M.B.A., Western Illinois University
B.A. in Mathematics, University of Wyoming
 
academic interests:

Manufacturing strategy, manufacturing competitive priorities, manufacturing competitiveness in the defense industry, international operations management, maquiladoras in Mexico

 
teaching:
Operations Management
Operations Strategy
Quality Management
 
professional activities:
Elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Principal investigator of a research grant from the Center for International Business and Economic Development (CIBED) and the U.S. Department of Defense; recipient of a grant from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant Program for International Studies and Foreign Language in Mexico.

Member of Decision Sciences Institute, Institute of Management Sciences, Production and Operations Management Society, and American Production and Inventory Control Society.

Reviewer for Decision Sciences Journal, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Management Science Journal, and Production and Operations Management Journal.

Noble, M.A. (1998) Manufacturing competitiveness: defense firms vs. non-defense firms. Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute, pp. 1265-1267.

Noble, M.A. (1997) Manufacturing competitive priorities and productivity: an empirical study. International Journal of Operations and Production Management 17:85-99.

Noble, M.A. (1995) Manufacturing strategy: testing the cumulative model in a multiple country context. Decision Sciences 26:693-721.



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