Arnoldo Hax

Arnoldo Hax is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management, Emeritus and a Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

An internationally known expert in the fields of strategic management and operations management, Hax’s primary research focuses on the development and implementation of formal strategic planning systems for business firms. He recently co-authored The Delta Project: Discovering New Sources of Profitability in a Networked Economy, which provides a new comprehensive strategic framework. Other books co-authored by Hax are The Strategy Concept and Process: A Pragmatic Approach; Strategic Management: An Integrative Perspective, first and second editions; Production and Inventory Control; and Applied Mathematical Programming. He also edited Studies in Operations Management, Planning Strategies That Work, and Readings in Strategic Management.

Hax holds an SB in industrial engineering from Catholic University of Chile, an MS in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in operations research from the University of California, Berkeley.