Faculty Profile

Cheryl Druehl
Assistant Professor
Decision and Information Technologies Department
Phone: 301-405-9677
Fax: 301-405-8655
cdruehl@rhsmith.umd.edu
Personal Webpage

EDUCATION
B.A., Electrical Engineering, UCLA
M.B.A., Operations Management, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
M.A., Business Research, Stanford University
Ph.D., Business Administration, Stanford University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Professor Druehl works in the area of supply chain management and electronic commerce. Her dissertation is titled “Competition in Supply Chains” and examines pricing decisions between an online channel and a bricks and mortar channel in a game theoretic framework. Other work examines incentives in the supply chain with multiple suppliers, and diffusion of technology from an operations perspective.

Professor Druehl teaches operations management, optimization, and supply chain management at the MBA and undergraduate levels.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professor Druehl worked extensively before obtaining her doctorate. Most recently, she was a consultant at Price Waterhouse LLP , where she focused on the design and implementation of warehouse management systems. Prior to that, she worked at MediaServ, a startup computer consulting firm. There, she worked extensively with computer technologies and programmed end user applications. Ms. Druehl began her career as a manufacturing engineer at the Watkins Johnson Company.