J. Michael Harrison

Who is J. Michael Harrison?

John Michael Harrison is an American academic, known for his contributions to the theory of operations research, in particular stochastic networks and financial engineering. He has authored near 90 journal articles and written two books in his area.

He obtained a B.Sc. in industrial engineering from Lehigh University, an M.Sc. from Stanford University, where he also got his Ph.D. in operations research. He then worked at the same place, in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as assistant professor, promoted to associate professor and full professor. He is currently the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford University.

His research focused on stochastic modelling for business and led to influential results in option theory. Later he studied Brownian network models for logistics and models for optimizing telephone call centers. More recently he has studied dynamic pricing and revenue management.