Biography—

Cheryl Druehl is the senior associate dean for faculty affairs and research and a professor within the information systems and operations management area at the Costello College of Business at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. 

As senior associate dean for faculty affairs and research, Druehl sees to the success of faculty, including leading college strategic planning, promoting excellence in research and teaching, and overseeing school-level faculty awards and professional development programs. She also collaborates on recruitment, retention, evaluation, and promotion and tenure initiatives while advocating for faculty and research needs.

In addition, Druehl teaches operations management, supply chain management, and management of technology and innovation processes.

Druehl’s research centers on product development, innovation contests and supply chain management. She has published research in journals including Productions and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, and Decision Sciences Journal. 

Druehl serves as department editor for the Innovation and Project Management department at the Journal of Operations Management. She is an associate editor for Decision Sciences Journal and is on the editorial review board of Productions and Operations Management Journal and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. She previously served on the boards of the Production and Operations Management Society’s College of Product Innovation and Technology Management and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences’ Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section.