Bio

Sebastian (Seb) Heese is the first faculty member to hold the Owens Distinguished Professorship of Supply Chain Management.

His research aims at increasing the efficiency of production and service operations systems, and often focuses on the interest conflict in decentralized supply chains. His work has been widely published in the leading international academic journals.

Before joining NC State University, Seb Heese was Dean of EBS Business School in Wiesbaden, Germany, where he also served as Executive Director of the Institute for Supply Chain Management and held the SGL Carbon Endowed Chair of Supply Chain Management. Prior to EBS, he served on the faculty at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

Sebastian Heese holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Area(s) of Expertise

Supply Chain, Retail

Publications

• Data from: Social vulnerability, capacity, and economic outcomes in North Carolina populations , DRYAD (2026)
• Does location matter? A study of automotive clusters in India , International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (2025)
• Evaluating the implementation of operational readiness and maintenance policies in US Army aviation , The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation Applications Methodology Technology (2025)
• Military maritime load planning instances for prioritized two-dimensional orthogonal packing , Open MIND (2025)
• Minimum order quantity requirements in the presence of supply disruption risk and retail competition , International Journal of Production Research (2025)
• Environmental Regulation Design: Motivating Firms’ Clean Technology Investments With Penalties and Subsidies , Production and Operations Management (2024)
• Antecedents of public reactions to supply chain glitches , International Journal of Production Economics (2023)
• Capacity shortages, regulation, and firm incentives in the generic drugs industry , Naval Research Logistics (NRL) (2023)
• Hiding in plain sight: Surge pricing and strategic providers , Production and Operations Management (2023)
• Pricing for services with cross-segment externalities, capacity constraints, and competition , European Journal of Operational Research (2023)

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