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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">*** Apologies for cross-postings ***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:4.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">Dear faculty members and doctoral students,</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">We are pleased to announce that we have started accepting applications from doctoral students and junior faculty in Operations and Supply Chain Management programs to attend the
PhD Winter Academy 2020 at the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI), one of the six centers in the MIT Global SCALE Network.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">The Winter Academy will be held from</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0"> </span></span><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">Jan
13-24, 2020</span></u></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0"> </span></u></b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">at
the MISI campus in Shah Alam, Malaysia, a 25-minute drive from Kuala Lumpur. The<span class="textexposedshow"> 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:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">Prof.
Elena Katok (University of Texas at Dallas), Prof. Constantine Blome (Sussex University), and Prof.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">Yaozhong Wu (National University of Singapore)<span class="textexposedshow">.</span></span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">In addition to engaging in the scholarly discussions, you will also get the opportunity to know your future colleagues from various institutions across the world in relaxed social
settings while enjoying the numerous culinary, cultural, and natural attractions of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">The interested applicants should email their CV to the director of the Winter Academy, Dr. Javad Feizabadi (<a href="applewebdata://51F8ED5F-83F7-4A58-ACFC-53F06D89E08C/jfeizabadi@misi.edu.my"><span style="color:#0070C0">jfeizabadi@misi.edu.my</span></a>)
no later than 31 December 2019. More detail of the program can be found on our website: <a href="https://www.misi.edu.my/misi2016-v2/phd-winter-academy-2020/"><span style="color:#0070C0">MISI PhD Winter Academy 2020</span></a>. There is a required tuition
fee of RM 250 for international students. Participants are responsible for all travel, lodging and incidental expenses.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">Javad Feizabadi, PhD </span></span><span style="color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0">Director of PhD Winter Academy </span></span><span style="color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Associate Professor, Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation, MIT Global SCALE Network</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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