ROGER E. BOHN
Curriculum Vitae
School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Mobile (preferred): (619) 995-5630
Rbohn@UCSD.edu
Academic Employment
2007-2008

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting professor ofTechnology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, at the Sloan School ofManagement, MIT. Researching the evolution of technology from craft toscience.

2006-2007

Boston University School of Management Visiting Scholar. Conducting
research.

1991 –2006, 2008 - present
University of California at San Diego, School of International Relations
and Pacific Studies, San Diego, California. Professor of Management.
Director, Global Information Industry Center. Total grant funding over $5
million, from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, NSF, others.
1990-1991

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Technology, Policy,and Industrial Development, and Sloan School of Management, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Visiting Scholar.

1982-1990

Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts. Assistant Professor ofTechnology and Operations Management.

VariousTeaching in graduate and executive programs at Oxford University,
Melbourne Business School, Rady School of Management (UCSD), andothers.
Education

Ph.D.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1982.
Ph.D. in Management. Major field in applied economics; minor in finance.
Dissertation on spot pricing of electricity, combining electrical engineering,economics and public policy.

B.A.

Harvard College, 1976.
B.A. in Applied Mathematics, summa cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa.
Senior thesis on peasant agriculture in Bangladesh. Varsity lightweight crew.

Publications (partial list)"From Art to Science in Manufacturing: The Evolution of Technological
Knowledge," Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations
Management, Vol. 1 Issue 2, pp. 1-82. Also at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/808/“Setup Time Reduction for Electronics Assembly: Combining Simple (SMED) andSophisticated Methods,” (with S. Trovinger), Production and Operations Management,
Vol 14 Issue 2, 2005, pp 205-207.
“International Product Transfer And Production Ramp-Up: A Case Study From The Data
Storage Industry.” (with Christian Terwiesch and K. Chea) R & D Management, Volume
31, Issue 4, (Oct 2001), pp. 435-452.
“Learning and Process Improvement during Production Ramp-up.” (with ChristianTerwiesch) International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 70, Issue 1; (March 3,2001), pp. 1- 19.
“Globalization of Production: Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry.” (with Peter
Gourevitch and David McKendrick) World Development, Volume 28, Issue 2, (2000), pp.
301-317.
“Stop Fighting Fires.” Harvard Business Review , Volume 78, Issue 4, (2000), pp. 82-91.
“The Low-Profit Trap in Hard Disk Drives, and How to Get out of It.” Insight, (March/April 2000), pp. 6-10.
“The Lucrative Marketing of Meaningless Improvements.” Data Storage, (January 2000),
Volume 7, Number 4.
“The Economics of Yield-Driven Processes.” (with Christian Terwiesch) Journal ofOperations Management, Volume 18, Issue 1, (December 1999) pp. 41-59.
Working paper at HYPERLINK "http://isic.ucsd.edu/papers/yield.shtml"“Report on Market Issues in the California Power Exchange Energy Markets,”(August1998) Report to FERC,“Globalization of Disk Drive Manufacturing: What and Where,”(1997) Bohn, R.E., P.
Gourevitch and D. McKendrick. Insight, Vol. 10, No. 4, July/August 1997.

“From San Jose to Singapore: Global Portrait of an Industry”, Bohn, R.E. and P.
Gourevitch, Data Storage; Vol. 33 No. 2; July/August 1997.
“The Impact of Process Noise on VLSI Process Improvement,” Bohn, R.E.IEEE
Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol. 8 No. 3, August 1995, pp 228-238.
Working paper partial version at: HYPERLINK "http://isic.ucsd.edu/papers/processnoise.shtml"“Noise and Learning in Semiconductor Manufacturing,” Bohn, R.E. Management Science,Vol. 41 No. 1, January 1995, pp. 31-42. Working paper partial version at: HYPERLINK"http://isic.ucsd.edu/noiselearning.html"“Measuring and Managing Technological Knowledge,” Bohn, R.E. Sloan Management
Review, Vol. 36 No. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 61-73. Various reprints.
“Mitigating the Coming Internet Crunch: Multiple Service Levels via Precedence,” Bohn,
R. E., H. W. Braun, K. Claffy, and S. Wolff, Journal of High Speed Networks, Vol. 3 No.
4, 1994, pp. 335-49. Working paper at HYPERLINK "http://www.nlanr.net/Papers/
precedence/"“Sizing of Electric Thermal Storage Under Real Time Pricing” Bohn, R.E. and B.
Daryanian, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 8 No. 1, February 1993, pp.
35-43.
“A Dynamic Approach to Operations Management: An Alternative to Static Optimization”
Bohn, R.E. and R. Jaikumar, International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 27 No.
3, October 1992, pp. 265-282. Working paper at HYPERLINK "http://isic.ucsd.edu/dynamicapproach.shtml"“Optimal Spot Pricing: Practice and Theory” Bohn, R.E. and M. Caramanis and F.
Schweppe, IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. PAS-101 No. 9,Sept. 1992,
pp. 3234-3245.
“An Experiment in Real Time Pricing for Control of Electric Thermal Storage Systems”
Bohn, R.E. B. Daryanian and R. Tabors, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems; Vol. 6
No. 4, November 1991; pp. 1356-1365.
“Beating Murphy's Law” (with W. B. Chew and D. Leonard-Barton), Sloan Management
Review, Vol. 32 No. 3, Spring 1991.
“Optimal Demand-Side Response to Electricity Spot Prices for Storage-Type Customers”
Bohn, R.E. B. Daryanian and R. Tabors, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems; Vol. 4
No. 3; August 1989; pp. 897-903.

“System Security Control and Optimal Pricing of Electricity” Bohn, R.E. and M.
Caramanis and F. Schweppe, Electrical Power & Energy Systems; Vol. 9 No. 4, October
1987; pp. 217-224.
“The Costs of Wheeling and Optimal Wheeling Rates” Bohn, R.E. and M. Caramanis andF. Schweppe, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems; Vol. PWRS-1 No. 1, February 1986;
pp. 63-73.
“Implications of Cost-Service Trade-offs in Industry Logistics Structures” Bohn, R.E., D.
Rosenfield and R. Shapiro, Interfaces; Vol. 15 No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1985; pp. 47-59.
“Wheeling Rates: An Economic-Engineering Foundation”. Bohn, R.E., F. Schweppe andM. Caramanis . MIT Technical Report TR 85-005; September 1985
“Optimal Pricing in Electrical Networks Over Space and Time”, Bohn, R.E., M. Caramanis
and F. Schweppe. The Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 15 No. 3, Autumn 1984; pp.
360-376.
“Deregulating the Generation of Electricity Through the Creation of Spot Markets for BulkPower” Bohn, R.E., B. Golub, F. Schweppe, and R. Tabors, The Energy Journal, Vol. 5
No. 2, 1984, pp. 71-91.
Books
Bohn, Roger and Ramchandran Jaikumar, From Filing and Fitting to Flexible
Manufacturing. Hanover, Mass.: now Publishers, 2005.
Spot Pricing of Electricity F. Schweppe, M. Caramanis, R. Tabors, R. Bohn, Kluwer
Academic Press, 1988.
Book Chapters“Real Time Pricing: Bringing Added Value to Utility Programs”, Bahman Daryanian,Richard D. Tabors, and Roger E. Bohn, in Service Opportunities for Electric Utilities:
Creating Differentiated Products, ed. Shmuel S. Oren and Stephen A. Smith. Norwell,
MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993
“Socially Responsive Buildings: Real-Time Control of Storage HVAC Systems,” chapter
in Energy and the Environment in the 21st Century, Jefferson Tester editor, The MITPress, 1991.
“The Development of Intelligent Systems for Industrial Use: An EmpiricalInvestigation” (with R. Jaikumar) in Research on Technological Innovation, Management,and Policy, Vol. 3, pp. 213-262, edited by Richard Rosenbloom (Greenwich, CT: JAIPress Inc., 1986).

“The Development of Intelligent Systems for Industrial Use: A Conceptual
Framework” (with R. Jaikumar) in Research on Technological Innovation, Management,and Policy, Vol. 3, pp. 169-211, edited by Richard Rosenbloom (Greenwich, CT: JAI
Press Inc., 1986).
“An Approach for Deregulating the Generation of Electricity” (with B. Golub, R. Tabors,and F. Schweppe), Chapter 5 in Electric Power Strategic Issues, J. Plummer et al., editors,
Public Utility Reports, Inc., 1983.
“Using Spot Pricing to Coordinate Deregulated Utilities, Customers, and Generators” (withF. Schweppe and R. Tabors), Chapter 13 in Electric Power Strategic Issues, J. Plummer etal., editors, Public Utility Reports, Inc., 1983.
Professional Activities
Refereefor various journals, including Management Science; Harvard Business
Review; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; IEEE
Transactions on Engineering Management; National Science Foundation;
Operations Research; Oxford University Press, Robotics and Computer
Integrated Manufacturing; The Energy Journal.

Editorial
Board

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations
Management

Board ofDirectors

NP Strategies Inc., San Diego (Nonprofit consulting)MemberInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

Consulting Summary
Client typeIntel-AMD litigation
Semiconductor DRAM litigation

International Electronics Manufac.
Initiative (iNEMI)
Large semiconductor/ electronics

Main areas of consulting
Expert testimony on semiconductor
manufacturing
DRAM technology; personal computer
technology and industry characteristics(expert witness)
Participate in roadmap development fordata storage. (Unpaid contributor to thisinternational activity.)
Organization of product development
activities

Small electronics company
High-tech startup
Energy consulting
Electronic components
Large manufacturing
Medium-sized Semiconductor

Steel products
Wood products
Large semiconductor

Roger Bohn

Manufacturing improvementBusiness plan
Principal, Tabors Caramanis andAssociates (1990s)
Manufacturing trouble-shooting
Manufacturing improvement
Various, including manufacturing troubleshooting, product development, processcontrol, in-house teaching
Manufacturing, process development.
(Several companies in Europe and Mexico)
Strategy and manufacturing
Manufacturing improvement, processcontrol (unpaid)

October 2009