Faculty
Jónas Oddur Jónasson is the Robert G. James Career Development Associate Professor in Operations Management and Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He serves as an associate editor for Management Science and IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering.
His research focuses on improving decentralized healthcare delivery systems—through (1) process design & optimization; (2) analytics & data-driven decision-making; and (3) understanding people-centric drivers of operational performance. He is interested in operational challenges related to healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings, particularly with applications to global health delivery, behavioral health interventions, health policy, and emergency medical services. He is passionate about his research having an impact on operational practice.
His research has been published in Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and BMJ Global Health. Jónas was awarded the Bonder Scholarship for applied Operations Research in Health Services (2014) and received first prizes in the MSOM student paper competition (2014), the M&SOM Practice-Based Research Competition (2021), and the William Pierskalla competition for best paper in Healthcare Management Science (2024). He was selected as finalist for the Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence award (2021) and the MSOM Society Award for Responsible Research (2019 and 2024).
At MIT, Jónas has taught Introduction to Operations Management as well as Healthcare Lab: Introduction to Healthcare Delivery.
Prior to joining MIT, Jónas received his PhD in management science and operations from London Business School, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and his BSc from the University of Iceland.
Featured Publication
"Improving HIV Early Infant Diagnosis Supply Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Models and Application to Mozambique."Jónasson, Jónas Oddur, Sarang Deo, and Jérémie Gallien. Operations Research Vol. 65, No. 6 (2017): 1479-1493.
Baek, Jackie, Justin J. Boutilier, Vivek F. Farias, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, and Erez Yoeli. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
Bavafa, Hessam and Jónas Oddur Jónasson. Management Science Vol. 70, No. 5 (2024): 3319-3337.
Jain, Sanjay, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Jean Pauphilet, and Kamalini Ramdas. Management Science Vol. 70, No. 4 (2024): 2023-2704. SSRN Preprint. Supplemental Material.
Brennan, Mark, Sophia Dyer, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, James Salvia, Laura Segal, Erin Serino, and Justin Steil. Health Care Management Science Vol. 27, (2024): 72-87.
Gibson, Emma, Sarang Deo, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Mphatso Kachule, and Kara Palamountain. .Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Vol. 25, No. 4 (2023): 1209-1226. SSRN Preprint. Supplemental Material.
It is well established that average productivity increases as a function of cumulative experience. But what is not known is whether that experience affects the consistency of performance.
Paper is the first to examine the effect of experience on performance variability.
