Ricardo Ernst is the Baratta Chair in Global Business and Professor of Operations and Global Supply Chains, Director of the Baratta Center for Global Business, Managing Director of the Latin American Leadership Program and former Deputy Dean, all at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello and an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, both in Venezuela. He received an MA degree and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He joined Georgetown in 1987. His research interests include strategic analysis of global supply chain systems at both macro and micro level. He has published five books and more than 40 publications in academic journals and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the virtual Journal “Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability” https://gcgjournal.georgetown.edu (new window) published by Georgetown University.
His research interests include strategic analysis of logistics systems (supplier –manufacturing – distribution linkages) at both macro (strategic positioning of logistics, marketing/manufacturing interfaces) and micro level (models and methods of inventory control, inventory classification procedures). He has been involved in developing metrics and performance evaluations for the logistics requirements and challenges for coordinating complex supply chain projects including non-for profit organizations like the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and EX-IM Bank. He has consulted with several national and international firms, including General Motors, Michelin, Rockwool, Casa Cuervo, FEMSA (Coca-Cola), Wal-Mart, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and The World Bank.
He has published five books and the most recent are “From Me to We: How Shared Value Can Turn Companies into Engines of Change,” (Palgrave McMillan 2021) and “Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability: The Three Disruptive Forces of Business in the 21st Century” (Palgrave McMillan 2019). He has more than 40 publications in academic journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, MSOM, Interfaces, Journal of Operations Management, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the virtual Journal “Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability” https://gcgjournal.georgetown.edu (new window) published by Georgetown University.
Pushing for innovation in higher education. Dr. Ernst created the first Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) of the McDonough School of Business entitled “Global Business in Practice.” The on-line course has over 6,500 subscribers in over 150 countries.
He has been awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award for the International Executive MBA program, the Joseph F. Le Moine Award for Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Georgetown University, and the MBA Core Curriculum Award, at The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania. He has also been listed as one of the Best Professors by Business Week magazine.