INFORMS is saddened to share the passing of Donald Rosenfield, a longtime INFORMS member and leader of MIT Leaders for Global Operations, which was awarded the INFORMS UPS George Smith Prize in 2014.
A 1971 graduate of MIT, Rosenfield spent the first 15 years of his career as a consultant and teacher. After working at MIT as a lecturer and a visiting associate professor for much of the 1980s, in 1987, he returned to the Institute to help lead a new degree program then known as MIT Leaders for Manufacturing.
The Leaders for Manufacturing was a two-year, dual-degree program that placed students with corporate partners - including Polaroid, Boeing, and Johnson & Johnson - for six months of hands-on coursework. Ultimately, students earned an MBA from MIT Sloan and a master's degree from the MIT School of Engineering.
Under Rosenfield's direction, the program grew and saw its graduates take leadership positions in some of the largest corporations in the United States. In 2009, the program was renamed "MIT Leaders for Global Operations" to reflect a broadened approach that looked beyond manufacturing to a company's entire supply chain. In 2014 the program was recognized by INFORMS with the UPS George D. Smith Prize for excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of operations research and analytics.
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Ashley Kilgore
Manager, Public Relations
INFORMS
Catonsville MD
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