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

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
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
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
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.
Collaborate or Compete: Examining Manufacturers' Replacement Strategies for a Substance of Concern
Kraft, T., & Raz, G. (2017), Production and Operations Management, 26(9), 1646–1662. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.12710
Assessing Consumers’ Valuations of Socially Responsible Products with Controlled Experiments
Zheng, Y., Kraft, T., & Valdés, L. (2016), In Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains (pp. 29–50). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30094-8_3

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Tim Kraft