Ranked a top 10 operations management researcher in terms of research productivity, quality and citations, Kouvelis is one of the most highly cited operations and supply chain management scholars, with over 6,500 citations.
Since 2012, Kouvelis was appointed as one of two academic leaders on the U.S. Commerce Department’s advisory committee on supply chain competitiveness.
He currently teaches Washington University EMBA programs in St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver, and has taught all 14 cohorts of the joint Olin-Fudan EMBA program in Shanghai, China, and started teaching in the recently established Joint Olin-IIT Mumbai EMBA.
Kouvelis has consulted with or taught executive programs for many companies, including Emerson, Monsanto, Belden, Bunge, BJC, Duke Hospital, Eaton, BAE, Express Scripts, Edward Jones, Sigma Aldrich, ABInBev and Boeing, on topics that include supply chain management, operations strategy, lean operations and inventory management.