Evan Barlow

Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management

Contact

Phone: 801-626-6418
Email: evanbarlow@weber.edu
Office: Wattis Business Building, Room 281

About

Evan Barlow joined the faculty in the Supply Chain Management program in Weber State University’s Goddard School of Business & Economics in 2016. He completed his PhD in Operations Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He also has a BS degree from Brigham Young University and a MS degree from the University of Texas at Austin in chemical engineering. 

Prior to studying at Northwestern, he spent four years as a process development engineer in Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Process R&D department, where, among other accomplishments, he helped develop a process to mass produce a new cancer drug.

Evan has two primary research streams. Most of his recent research focuses on business data analytics and artificial intelligence. Research topics in this stream include: (i) bridging the gaps between traditional econometric methods and modern AI, and (ii) developing novel methodologies to give an AI the ability to prescribe intelligent decisions rather than simply predicting an outcome. His second research stream focuses on the intersection of operations and supply chain management with organizational and labor economics. Current research topics explore worker poaching between supply chain members; the interaction between worker training, flexibility, and autonomy; and organizational and supply chain design in the presence of labor market competition. He is currently a member of INFORMS.