Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management,
Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Professor Fine teaches MBA and Executive Education courses in Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Product Management, Innovation. and Entrepreneurship. His current research focuses on Operations for Entrepreneurs. From 2015 to 2022, Prof. Fine served as the founding President, Dean, and CEO of Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a collaboration between the MIT Sloan School of Management and Bank Negara Malaysia, the country’s central bank. Prior to that, he led the collaboration between MIT Sloan and the Indian School of Business on manufacturing curriculum development (2011-14), and was a founding co-director of MIT’s Tata Center for Technology and Design (2012-14). He also served as a founding co-director of MIT’s Communications Futures Program (2002-2014). He previously served as co-director of MIT’s International Motor Vehicle Program (1993-1998). Professor Fine has an AB in Mathematics and Management Science from Duke University, and an MS in Operations Research and a PhD in Business Administration (Decision Sciences) from Stanford University.
Primary Contact: charley@mit.edu
mit sloan
Office: E62-466 Phone: +1 (617) 253-3632 Cambridge, MA, USA 02142
Areas of Expertise: Operations, Entrepreneurship, Supply Chains
Research
Professor Fine’s recent research focuses on the development of principles and practices for entrepreneurs to build operations strategies and capabilities consistent with their business objectives.
His previous work has addressed quality management, flexible manufacturing, humanitarian logistics, urban mobility, and strategic supply chain design principles for fast-clockspeed manufacturing and service industries.
Executive education
Professor Fine has consulted and taught widely in industry, across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Current open enrollment programs at MIT Sloan:
Driving Strategic Innovation: Achieving High Performance Throughout the Value Chain
PUBLICATIONS
Professor Fine has written broadly in scholarly publications and is the author of Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage, Perseus Books, 1998 and the co-author of “Faster, Smarter, Greener: The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility” MIT Press, 2017.
“All advantage is temporary.”