Gemma Berenguer

Gemma Berenguer is a professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a Ramón y Cajal researcher. She received her doctorate in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a Master's degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (ZLC), a Master's degree in Economics (Barcelona GSE), and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics (UPC BarcelonaTech). Before joining Carlos III, she was an assistant professor at Purdue University.

Her main research topics are supply chain management in non-profit organizations, sustainable operations, and supply chain design. She teaches at the undergraduate, master's, and executive levels in the areas of Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Sustainable and Socially Responsible Operations. She has experience collaborating with private, public, and non-profit organizations in the global health, consumer goods, transportation, electronics, and solar energy sectors. She has published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, M&SOM, Production and Operations Management (POM), and Journal of Operations Management. She is a Senior Editor of the Operations Research Journal and POM Journal, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Decision Sciences Journal. Among her various achievements, she has won the Skinner Award for best article in POM Journal (2018) and the SOLA Informs Biannual Award for best Doctoral Thesis (2014).

Gemma is the Vice Dean of the Bachelor's Degree in Business and Technology at UC3M. She was also the president of the Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) Section at INFORMS in 2023 and has been Vice President for Europe at POMS (2022-2024).

• Corbett, C. J., Narayanan, S., Aloysius, J., Berenguer, G., Bish, E. K., Bjarnadóttir, M. V., Gao, G., Glover, W. J., Johnson, M. P., Kalkanci, B., Li, J., Martonosi, S. E., Mejia, J., Mishra, A., Natarajan, K. V., Parker, C., Sodhi, M. S., Tang, W., Wowak, L. K. D., & Zobel, C. W. (2024). Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Operations Management: Critical Linkages and Research Opportunities. Production and Operations Management. Forthcoming.
• Berenguer, G., Costas, N., and Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, A. (2024) The state of supplier diversity initiatives for large corporations: the new sustainable supply chain?, Production and Operations Management. Forthcoming.
• Zhang, Y., Berenguer G., and Zhang, Z. (2024) The case of a subsidized reverse supply chain in
  the Chinese electronics industry, Omega, vol. 122 102937 | Related Website |
• Berenguer, G., Haskell, L. and Li, L. (2024) Managing volunteers and paid workers in a nonprofit operation, Management Science, vol.7 (8), 5298–5316. | Related Website |
• Park, C.H. and Berenguer, G. (2020). Supply constrained location-distribution in not-for-profit settings, forthcoming. Production and Operations Management | Related Website |
• Berenguer, G., and Shen, Z.J.M. (2020). Challenges and Strategies in Managing Nonprofit Operations: an Operations Management Perspective, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, |vol. 22 (5), 888-905 | Related Website |
• Atal, N. Berenguer, G. & Borwankar, S. (2019). Gender diversity issues in the IT industry: How can your sourcing group help?. Business Horizons, vol. 62 (5), 595-602. | Related Website |
• Zhang, Z., Berenguer, G., and Pan, X (2019). Location, inventory and testing decisions in closed-loop supply chains: a multimedia company. IISE Transactions, vol. 51 (1), 41-56. | Related Website |
• Berenguer, G., Feng, Q., Shanthikumar, J.G., Xu, L. (2017). The Effects of Subsidies on Increasing Consumption through For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Newsvendors. Production and Operations Management, [Skinner Best Paper Award POM Journal 2017]. vol. 26 (6), 1191-1206. | Related Website |
• Berenguer, G., Keskinocak, P., Shanthikumar, J.G., Swaminathan, J., and Van Wassenhove, L.N. (2017). A Prologue to the Special Issue on Not-for-Profit Operations Management. Production and Operations Management, 26 (6) 973-975. | Related Website |
• Berenguer, G., Iyer, A., and Yadav, P. (2016). Disentangling the efficiency drivers in country-level global health programs: an empirical study. Journal of Operations Management, vol. 45 30-43. | Related Website |
• Zhang, Z., Berenguer, G. and Shen Z.J.M. (2015). A Capacitated Facility Location Model with Bidirectional Flows. Transportation Science, vol. 49 (1), 114-129. | Related Website |
• Atamturk, A., Berenguer, G. and Shen Z.J.M. (2012). A Conic Integer Programming Approach to Location-Inventory Problems. Operations Research, vol. 60 (2), 366-381. | Related Website |