Ferdinand K. Levy

Who is Ferdinand K. Levy?

Ferdinand K. Levy was a famous management scientist with several important contributions to system analysis. He was a professor at Georgia Tech from 1972 until his retirement in 2005. In particular he was famous for research on and contributions to the Critical Path Method and Program Evaluation and Review Technique.

Ferdinand K. Levy has had a varied career beginning with quality control manager and later plant manager of a folding carton plant in New Orleans. After returning to college and receiving his doctorate in economics in 1964 under the tutelage of the late Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon at Carnegie Mellon University, he served on the faculties of Stanford University, Rice University, Georgia Institute of Technology, as a visitor at the University of Chicago, and City University of Hong Kong where he was the Foundation Dean of its College of Management from 1991-1995. In 1981, Levy was one of the founders and faculty members of the first management college in China. He retired from Georgia Tech in 2005.

Levy is the co-author of three books on economics and two on production scheduling and author or co-author of over 50 journal articles. In 2000 he became the first professor in management ever to be awarded the outstanding graduate professor award at Georgia Tech where he twice won the MBA teaching award. He holds honorary degrees from three Chinese universities and is a member of honorary scholastic fraternities in physics, the humanities, and business administration. He also was awarded the Alexander Henderson Award in Economic Theory while at Carnegie-Mellon, and his doctoral dissertation was honored by the American Economic Association.