Steve Walton

Professor Walton joined Goizueta Business School in the Fall of 1996. After receiving his PhD in 1993 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Steve served on the faculties of North Carolina A&T State University and Baylor University. Steve's efforts in the classroom have been highlighted by 11 teaching awards, including The Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, a university-wide honor, and the Adler Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Before coming to Emory, Steve also worked for IBM.

Steve's current interests include strategic execution, operational decision making and the impact of leadership on operations outcomes. Steve has published in Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management and the Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute. Professor Walton also serves as a reviewer for Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, the Journal of Supply Chain Management and Organization Science.

Steve's consulting clients include Sony, First Data, UPS, The Home Depot, Delta Air Lines, Usher’s New Look Foundation, SunTrust, Panasonic, McKesson Information Solutions, The Arthur M. Blank Family Office, Siemens Medical Systems, Synovus and others.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic Execution
• Strategic Decision Making
• Operational Excellence
• Environmental Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Applications of Qualitative Research Methods

Education

• PhD in Operations Management
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• MA in Industrial Management
  Clemson University
• BS in Industrial Management
  Clemson University

PUBLICATIONS

• Handfield, R.B., S.V. Walton and R. Sroufe, Applying Environmental Criteria to Supplier Assessment: A Study in the Application of the Analytical Hierarchy Process, European Journal of Operations Research, 2002
• Galea, C. and S.V. Walton, Is E-commerce Sustainable? An Analysis of Webvan, Sustainability in the Digital Economy, Greenleaf Publishing, 1997
• Walton, S.V. and J.N.D. Gupta, Electronic Data Interchange and Operations Management: A Research Agenda, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 372-388, 1998
• Walton, S.V., R.B. Handfield and S.A. Melnyk, The Green Supply Chain: Integrating Suppliers into Environmental Management Processes, International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 2-11, 1998
• Handfield, R.B., S.V. Walton, S.A. Melnyk and L. Seegars, The "Green" Supply Chain: Best Practices from the Furniture Industry, Journal of Operations Management, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 293-315, 1997
• Walton, S.V. and A.S. Marucheck, The Relationship between EDI and Supplier Reliability, International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 30-35, 1997
• Handfield, R.B., S.V. Walton, A.S. Marucheck and A. McKinney-Wilkens, International Purchasing Transactions through Electronic Data Interchange Systems, Global Information Technology Applications: Focus on the Organization and Its Functional Areas, C. Deans and K. Karwan (eds.), pp. 312-328