John Gray is a Dean’s Distinguished Professor of operations and business analytics. He joined Fisher after receiving his PhD from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he worked for eight years in operations management at Procter & Gamble, receiving an MBA from Wake Forest University’s evening program during that time. He holds two undergraduate degrees from Dartmouth College and its Thayer School of Engineering. 

From August 2022-February 2024, he served as a part-timeconsultant for the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President (EOP) of the United States. He advised the EOP on issues related to pharmaceutical supply chain resilience.

His work has been funded by outside entities on numerous occasions. He is currently the PI on a subaward grant from the Department of Defense, charged with examining global pharmaceutical supply chains. He was co-PI of a $1.7 million two-year contract with the FDA from October 2019-September 2021, and part of a major FDA subaward two years before that. In early 2010s, he was co-PI on an NSF grant.

Dr. Gray teaches/has taught an elective he created called Strategic Global Sourcing (at the Ph.D., Executive, MBA, , MSCM, and undergraduate levels) and Data Analysis (at the Ph.D., Executive, and MBA levels); he has won a college teaching award for each class. A student project from his elective led to a co-authored case (Scotts Miracle-Gro: The Spreader Sourcing Decision) that has been widely adopted, earning the title of an “Ivey Classic”.

He serves as academic co-director of the Master of Supply Chain Management program at Fisher. He also serves as academic director for Fisher’s Ph.D. programs.

Dr. Gray’s research has been published in top multi-disciplinary management journals, including Decision Sciences, Management Science and Organization Science; and top operations and supply chain journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, the Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Production and Operations Management. His research has received several awards, the Jack Meredith Best Paper award from the Journal of Operations Management and the Emerald Citations of Excellence award which recognizes the most impactful articles across a wide range of journals. IN 2023, he was given the distinguished scholar award from the OSCM Division of the Academy of Management.

He has also served as a Department Editor at the Journal of Operations Management and a Senior Editor at the Production and Operations Management journal. He is currently editing a special issue at the Journal of Operations Management on the operations and supply chains of pharmaceutical products.

 Finally, he recently became President of the Industry Studies Association; for which we served as conference chair for its 2023 conference in Columbus.