LARRY LAPIDE, Ph.D.
Director, Demand Management
MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)
Dr. Lapide managed the launch of MIT’s Supply Chain 2020 Project that is researching the future of Supply Chain Management (SCM). He is currently an advisor to the project and is the project director of CTL’s Demand Management research programs. He is also responsible for its Strategy Alignment Workshop training program.
Dr. Lapide has more than 12 years of experience in supply chain and marketing consulting, 10 years of management experience in the high tech sector, and seven years as a supply chain technology market analyst, as well as 10 years experience in college teaching on a part-time basis.
He was most recently on the staff of AMR Research, a technology market analyst firm specializing in software business applications, serving variously as VP and Service Director for Supply Chain Strategies, as VP of Research Operations for Business Applications, and as the GM for Benchmarking Services.
Previous to AMR, he was an associate partner with Accenture where he managed projects involving supply chain effectiveness, distribution network analysis, demand planning, service parts logistics, operational strategy and systems development.
Dr. Lapide has also worked with Data General, Arthur D. Little, and Benchmarking Partners, as well as a lecturer in the Management Sciences department of the University of Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. in operations research from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union.
Dr. Lapide was profiled in 2001 by Supply Chain Technology News magazine as one of four top thought leaders in supply chain and in 2006 in Supply Chain Management Review magazine’s Profiles in Leadership column. DC Velocity magazine named him as a 2007 Logistics Rainmaker. He has written numerous articles, including writing an ongoing column in the Journal of Business Forecasting since 1997. He co-managed and co-authored a book for the Council of Logistics Management, E-Business: The Strategic Impact on Supply Chain and Logistics.
He has held several professional society officer positions including four years serving as a board member and treasurer of the Supply Chain Council and as a president of the Boston Chapter of The Institute of Management Sciences (now INFORMS). He sits on the Institute of Business Forecasting’s Advisory Board, the ValueCentric Board and Manhattan Associates’ Science Advisory Board.