Faculty Spotlight: Operations Expert, Jeremy Shapiro

A Celebration of His Life and Work

Professor emeritus and long-time Professional Education faculty member Jeremy Shapiro passed away on April 14. Shapiro, who served as co-director of MIT’s Operations Research Center for nine years, analyzed real-world decisions in supply chain management, finance, and marketing and was the author of Modeling the Supply Chain.

Since 1988, Shapiro taught short programs including Supply Chain Network Design, Demand Driven Supply Chain Management, New Approaches to Optimizing Inventories, and, since 2010, Analytics for S&OP and Network Design. He taught that course globally as well, leading a session in Mexico last September.

“Professor Shapiro was a knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher,” says Anna Mahr, MIT Professional Education associate director. “He was always seeking to understand and deliver what working professionals needed. He will be missed.”

He also taught in custom programs. “He had a wealth of knowledge and wanted to share it with students,” says Dawna Levenson ’83, SM ’84, MIT Professional Education associate director. “During his extensive preparation for the custom course for Accenture’s Supply Chain practice in Amsterdam, he would constantly seek feedback from his Accenture counterparts to ensure he was delivering a course that would meet their needs.”

We will all miss you, Professor Shapiro.