Keenan D. Yoho

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Adjunct Researcher
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in business - operations & supply chain management, University of Wisconsin; M.B.A. in operations & information management, University of Wisconsin; M.S. in industrial relations, University of Wisconsin; B.A. in religion, Temple University

Overview

Biography

Keenan Yoho's primary research activities are in the area of strategy, operations, and resource management in highly uncertain environments. Yoho has several years of experience advising and developing executives in the U.S. and Europe in the principles of operations, supply chain and logistics management and manufacturing operations. He has served as an Intelligence Analyst for the U.S. Customs Service in the area of international money laundering and has worked large litigation cases representing Lloyd's of London in insurance defense. He was the National Research Coordinator for Manufacturing Skills Standards as part of an initiative funded by the United States Congress to develop national skill standards for the U.S. industrial manufacturing economic sector. Before joining RAND, Yoho served as a supply chain advisor and consultant to U.S. and European firms for several years in the petrochemical, semiconductor, paper and pulp products, and steel industries focusing on enabling corporate strategy by using the supply chain as a competitive weapon.

Concurrent Non-RAND Positions

Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Naval Postgraduate School

Selected Publications

Yoho, K. D. and Rappold, J. A., "Beyond Lean: Production and Inventory Policy for the Old Economy," Production and Inventory Management Journal, 47(2):56-68, 2011

Rappold, J.A. and Yoho, K.D., "A Model for Level-Loading Production in the Process Industries When Demand is Stochastic," Production Planning and Control, 19(7):686-701, 2008