Kate McKone-Sweet
Associate Professor of Operations Management
Shawmut Design and Construction Term Chair

Babson College   

326 Tomasso Hall                                                                                               
Babson, Park, MA 02457

 

Phone: (781) 239-4245

Fax: (781) 239-5272

Send me an email: kmckonesweet@babson.edu  

 


Publications

Improving Performance through an Integrated Manufacturing Program, co-authored with Kristy Cua and Roger G. Schroeder, Quality Management Journal, 13:3, p45-60, 2006.

 The Ailing Healthcare Supply Chain:  A Prescription for Change, co-authored with Paul Hamilton and Susan Willis, Journal of Supply Chain Management, winter 2005.

An Integrated Systems Approach to Process Control and Maintenance, co-authored with Kevin Linderman and John Anderson, European Journal of Operations Research, 164:2, p. 324, 2005.

 Lessons from a Coffee Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management Review, 8:7, 2004

Offshoring/Outsourcing: Fragile - Handle With Care, co-authored with William Costello and Ashok Rao, Babson Insight, Summer 2004The ISM Simulation: Teaching Integrated Management Concepts, co-authored with Jane Bozewicz, Journal of Management Education, 27:4, p.497-516, 2003.  

 Predictive Maintenance: Can we abandon traditional Maintenance Programs?  POMS Chronicle, 10:2, 2003.

Guidelines for Implementing Predictive Maintenance, co-authored with Elliott N. Weiss, Production Operations Management, 11:2, pg. 109-124, 2002.

 Redefining Contract Manufacturing, co-authored with Paul Tumolo, Supply Chain Management Review, Jan./Feb. p. 64-71, 2002,

 A Plant’s Technology Approach and Emphasis: A Contextual View, co-authored with Roger G. Schroeder, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 22:7, pg. 772-792, 2002.

 Relationships between implementation of TQM, JIT and TPM and Manufacturing Performance, Co-authored with Kristy O. Cua and Roger G. Schroeder, Journal of Operations Management, 19, p. 675-694, 2001

 The Impact of Total Productive Maintenance Practices on Manufacturing Performance, co-authored with Roger G. Schroeder and Kristy O. Cua, Journal of Operations Management, 19: 1, pg. 39-58, 2001.

Total Productive Maintenance co-authored with Elliott N. Weiss, in Innovations in Competitive Manufacturing, in Swamidass, P., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2001.

 Total Productive Maintenance co-authored with Elliott N. Weiss, in Swamidass, P. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management, Kluwer Academic Publishing, MA, 2000.

Teaching Supply Chain Management Principles: The Otogel Simulation Exercise, in M. Eric Johnson and David F. Pyke (eds.), Supply Chain Management: Innovations for Education, Volume 2 in POMS Series in Technology and Operations Management, Production Operations Management Society, 2000.

 Analysis of Investments in Autonomous Maintenance Activities, co-authored with Elliott N. Weiss, IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering, 32:9, pg. 849-859, 2000.

 An Autonomous Maintenance Approach to Cycle Time Reduction: Guidelines for Improvement, co-authored with Elliott N. Weiss, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, 6:3, pg. 187-201, 2000. 

Total Productive Maintenance: A Contextual View, co-authored with Roger G. Schroeder and Kristy O. Cua, Journal of Operations Management, 17: 2, p. 123-144, 1999.

Analysis of Student Feedback Improves Graduate Faculty Effectiveness, Journal of Management Education, 23:4, 1999.

Total Productive Maintenance: Bridging the Gap Between Practice and Research, co-authored with Elliott N. Weiss, Production Operations Management, 7:4, p. 335-351, Winter 1998.

 
Working Papers

Shah, R., K. McKone-Sweet, and A. Mishra, Assessing the Performance Impact of Supply Chain Orientation in Net Enhanced Organizations, under revision for Journal of Operations Management. 

McKone-Sweet, K. and Y. Lee, A taxonomy of Supply Chain Strategies, submitted to Journal of Operations Management, July 2007.


 

 

 


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