Matthew Drake

Dr. Matt Drake is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and the PwC Alumni Faculty Fellow in Supply Chain Management. He primarily teaches quantitatively-focused courses in the Supply Chain Management program, including graduate and undergraduate-level courses in Forecasting, Production Planning, and Inventory Management as well as Global Transportation and Logistics. Dr. Drake also teaches the Foundations of Business Analytics course for the undergraduate co-major in Business Analytics as well as Prescriptive Analytics and Decision Making in the M.S. in Analytics and Information Management program.

Dr. Drake has developed six teaching cases that have either won or have been finalists for teaching case awards through the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). He had also edited two case books for Pearson / FT Press: The Applied Business Analytics Casebook (published in 2014) and Advances in Business, Operations and Product Analytics (2016). These cases have been integrated into the Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics curricula at Duquesne.

He authored Global Supply Chain Management, published by Business Expert Press in 2012. Several of his teaching materials have been published in INFORMS Transactions on Education, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, and Spreadsheets in Education.

Dr. Drake is currently an Area Editor for case studies for INFORMS Transactions on Education and was formerly Editor-in-Chief of Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.

His research interests consider the incentives faced by decentralized decision makers in supply chains and ethical issues in supply chain collaboration. His work has been published in leading journals including Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, International Journal of Production Economics, OR Spectrum, International Transactions in Operational Research, Business Horizons, Journal of Business Ethics, and Science and Engineering Ethics.

Dr. Drake is an alum of the School and graduated in 2002 with a concentration in supply chain management and logistics. As a student, he had internships with Pitt Ohio Express and Penske Logistics. He joined Duquesne University as a faculty member in 2006 after earning his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering.

• Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Economic Decision Analysis, Georgia Institute of Technology
• M.S., Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
• B.S.B.A., Supply Chain Management and Finance, Duquesne University

Dr. Drake’s research interests focus on many aspects of managing the supply chain. He considers the incentives that each party (such as a manufacturer and a retailer) has in making decisions and how these incentives can be realigned to achieve the best performance possible for the entire supply chain. 

He builds economic models of supply chain decision environments using methods such as constrained optimization and game theory. These models allow him to analyze the incentives that each supply chain party faces in the scenario and devise mechanisms that realign the incentives to improve the performance of the overall system.

Dr. Drake is also interested in specific aspects of supply chain management that focus on ethical decision making and international issues. These topics have become critical in recent years as global supply chains have become more interconnected and interdependent, posing a great risk if they break down.