Kate Blackmon
Associate Professor in Operations Management at Said Business School
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- Said Business School
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Said Business School
Dr Kate Blackmon is Associate Professor in Operations Management and a Tutorial Fellow in Management Studies at Merton College. She was the Senior Proctor in 2014-15 and has contributed to university administration, especially in research ethics and the Bodleian Library.
Her chief areas of interest include operations strategy and how to help businesses achieve optimal performance, how gender and diversity can be managed in organisations, the innovation and evolution of new business models in professional service firms, and the design of research methods for business and management research. She is co-author with Dr Harvey Maylor of Researching Business and Management (Palgrave), and is completing a book on the gender gap in leadership, Leading Women, for OUP.
Kate joined Saïd Business School from the University of Bath’s School of Management in September 2003, having previously worked at the London Business School and the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne. Her first career was in the electric utility industry, designing and starting up nuclear power stations. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University in South Carolina and a BA in Business from the Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, plus an MBA and PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Areas of expertise include:
- Operations strategy
- Service operations and management
- Research methods
- Gender and diversity in organisations
- Technological innovation and management
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