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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*** Apologies for cross-postings ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear faculty members and doctoral students,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are pleased to announce that we have started accepting applications from doctoral students in Operations and Supply Chain Management programs to attend the PhD Winter Academy 2017 at the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI), one of the six centers in the MIT Global SCALE Network. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Winter Academy will be held from Jan 9-23, 2017 at the MISI campus in Shah Alam, Malaysia, a 25-minute drive from Kuala Lumpur. The Academy is designed to provide an intense period of learning and debating the fundamental concepts and recent advances in Operations and Supply Chain Management. The sessions will be taught by three distinguished scholars in our field: Prof. Nitin Joglekar (Boston University), Prof. Mozart Menezes (Kedge Business School), and Prof. Chelsea White (Georgia Tech). The classroom sessions will be complemented by an industry visit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The interested applicants should email their CV, statement of interest, and one recommendation letter from the doctoral supervisor to the director of the Winter Academy, Dr. Javad Feizabadi (</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="mailto:jfeizabadi@misi.edu.my"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>jfeizabadi@misi.edu.my</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>). More details of the program can be found on our website: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="https://www.misi.edu.my/educations/phd-winter-academy/"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>MISI PhD Winter Academy 2017</span></a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. <b>The application deadline is 11 pm on December 1, 2016 (Malaysia time).</b> We recommend that the interested applicants <b>apply early</b> due to space limitations and priority given to early applicants, ceteris paribus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are looking forward to meeting and working with you, and to helping you during your stay in Kuala Lumpur.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Director of PhD Winter Academy CEO and Rector <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr. Javad Feizabadi, PhD Prof. Dr. David Gonsalvez<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Shardul Phadnis, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"'>Assistant Professor, Director of Research<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"'>Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#595959'>2A, Persiaran Tebar Layar, Bukit Jelutong<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#595959'>Shah Alam 40150 Selangor, MALAYSIA<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#595959'>Contact: +60.3.7841.4845; </span></i><a href="mailto:sphadnis@misi.edu.my"><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:blue'>sphadnis@misi.edu.my</span></i></a><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:#595959'>Webpage: </span></i><a href="http://www.misi.edu.my/about/faculty-teaching-staff/dr-shardul-phadnis/"><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:blue'>MISI</span></i></a><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"'>, </span></i><a href="http://web.mit.edu/shardul/www/"><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif";color:blue'>MIT</span></i></a><i><span style='font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>
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