Nobel laureates’ contributions to and impacts on operations management
梳理了诺贝尔经济学奖得主在运营管理领域的贡献，包括直接研究和间接影响，帮助读者了解这些顶尖学者如何塑造了运营管理学科。
Operations management (OM) has evolved to its current status due to the contributions of researchers in many fields including economics, finance, behavioral sciences, operations research/management science, mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Many of these contributors are Nobel laureates—winners of the highest academic award. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to those with monumental works in economics. Yet, some winners have also made contributions to operations management, the field of this journal. Others have developed important concepts and techniques that have made an enormous impact on OM research. Here, we describe the OM contributions as well as the impactful concepts of these Laureates.