Kathleen McKone-Sweet

Academic Division: TOIMKathleen McKone teaches operations management and supply chain management courses to both undergraduate and graduate students at Babson. She has also taught at the University of Minnesota M.B.A. and executive education programs. Prior to completing her graduate work in business, she worked for Pitney Bowes and Procter and Gamble. Professor McKone-Sweet''s current research focuses on supply-chain management anf global healthcare. The results from her research have been published in numerous academic books and journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Production Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, and Supply Chain Management Review. She has also published numerous operations management cases and management education papers. She has a strong interest in teaching materials that consider social, environmental and economic value creation as well as hands-on simulations and exercises that engage students in the learning process. Her book The New Entrepreneurial Leader: Developing Leaders Who Shape Social and Economic Opportunity (2011), co-authored with Danna Greenberg, Jim Wilson and other Babson Faculty, details a new model for leadership development.

Academic Degrees

• Ph D, University of Virginia
• MBA, University of Virginia
• M. Eng., Cornell University
• BS, Cornell University

Academic Interests

Operations; Manufacturing Quality Management; Supply Chain Distribution Logistics Management

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Awards & Honors

2014 - BFRF Summer Stipend, Babson College

2009 - BFRF Summer STipend, Babson College

2006 - BFRF summer funding and course release

2004 - Glavin center course release

2002 - Babson College Board of Research course release grant

2002 - Shawmut Design & Construction Term Chair

2001 - Babson College Board of Research summer stipend , Babson College

2001 - Finalist for DSI 2001 Innovation Education Award

2001 - Reviewer Excellence Award , Journal of Operations Management

2000 - Babson College SEE Fellow program

1998 - Bush Faculty Development Program for Excellence and Diversity in Teaching

1994 - Darden Faculty Award for Academic Excellence, The University of Virginia

1990 - Cornell Dean’s List , Cornell University

1990 - Dean''s Certificate for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Cornell University

1990 - Silent Hoist & Crane Award (Best MEng. Project), Cornell University