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Dr. Edward Anderson is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.  He received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his bachelor’s degree with majors in history and electrical engineering from Stanford University.  His research interests include outsourced product development (distributed innovation) and project management, the videogame industry, national security policy, knowledge management, supply chain management, and computer simulation.  He has published articles in Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and The System Dynamics Review.  Dr. Anderson won the prestigious Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Award from the Production and Operations Management Society. He is a senior editor of Production and Operations Management and has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, SAP, and Hewlett-Packard.  Professor Anderson has consulted with Ford, Shell, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Frito-Lay, and Atlantic-Richfield and holds three U.S. patents from his work at the Ford Motor Company.