Janice Hammond

Janice H. Hammond is an American economist, the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing and the Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community at the Harvard Business School.^[1]

Hammond earned a Ph.D. in 1985 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the dissertation Solving Asymmetric Variational Inequality Problems and Systems of Equations with Generalized Nonlinear Programming Algorithms supervised by Thomas Magnanti.^[2] She is the author of books including:

• Logistics and Strategy (ISEDI, 1993, with C. J. Ferrozi and R. D. Shapiro)
• A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing, Lessons from the Textile and Apparel Industries (Oxford University Press, 1999, with J. T. Dunlop, F. A. Abernathy, and D. Weil)^[3]