Biography
Harwin de Vries is Associate Professor at the Technology and Operations Management department at RSM. His research focuses on health & humanitarian logistics, with a particular focus on disaster relief logistics and the logistics behind enhancing access to essential medicines and health services in LMICs. Harwin has collaborated closely with more than twenty humanitarian/ health organizations, studying how key decisions in health/ humanitarian supply chains (e.g., location, inventory, routing, planning, allocation, or assignment decisions) affect patients or beneficiaries and how they could be improved. He particularly explores the potential role of data and prescriptive analytics and new business and operating models in the sectors (e.g., service delivery through mobile health units). Harwin's current teaching portfolio includes courses on Health & Humanitarian Logistics (MSc & MBA), Business Analytics (EMBA), and Spreadsheet Modelling (BSc & Pre-MSc).
Harwin won several prizes with his research, including the 2021 ERIM Award for Outstanding Performance by a Young Researcher and attracted several research grants, including the 2022 NWO VENI grant. Harwin published academic papers in leading scientific journals, including Production and Operations Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Omega, PLoS Computational Biology, and European Journal of Operational Research. Several of his research projects have been transformed in teaching cases. Harwin also serves on the board of the POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM).
Before joining RSM, Harwin worked at INSEAD (France) as postdoctoral researcher and manager of the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group. Harwin holds a PhD degree in Operations Research from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- harwin.devries@rsm.nl
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Work
- Félicia Saïah, Diego Vega, Harwin de Vries & Joakim Kembro (2023) - Process modularity, supply chain responsiveness, and moderators: The Médecins Sans Frontières response to the Covid-19 pandemic - Production and Operations Management, 32 (5), 1490-1511 - doi: 10.1111/poms.13696 - [link]
- Harwin de Vries & Maria Besiou (2022) - The Logistics Cluster: Organizing Chaos in Humanitarian Logistics - [link]
- Kim E. van Oorschot, Luk N. Van Wassenhove, Marianne Jahre, Kostas Selviaridis & Harwin de Vries (2022) - Drug shortages: A systems view of the current state - Decision Sciences, 53 (6), 969-984 - doi: 10.1111/deci.12583 - [link]
- Lina Frennesson, Joakim Kembro, Harwin de Vries, Marianne Jahre & Luk Van Wassenhove (2022) - “International humanitarian organizations’ perspectives on localization efforts” - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 83 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103410 - [link]
- V Karamshetty, Harwin de Vries, LN Van Wassenhove, S DeWilde, W Minnaard, D Ongarora, K Abuga & P Yadav (2022) - Inventory Management Practices in Private Healthcare Facilities in Nairobi County - Production and Operations Management, 31 (2), 828-846 - doi: 10.1111/poms.13445 - [link]
- Kostas Selviaridis, Nonhlanhla Dube, Christine Aardal & Harwin de Vries (2022) - Promoting resilience in medicine supply chains: An exploration of the role of contracting - [link]
- Andres Alban, Philippe Blaettchen, Harwin de Vries & Luk N. Van Wassenhove (2021) - Resource Allocation with Sigmoidal Demands: Mobile Healthcare Units and Service Adoption - Manufacturing and Service Operations Management - doi: 10.1287/msom.2021.1020
- Harwin de Vries, Marianne Jahre, Kostas Selviaridis, Kim E. van Oorschot & Luk N. Van Wassenhove (2021) - Short of drugs? Call upon operations and supply chain management - International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 41 (10), 1569-1578 - doi: 10.1108/IJOPM-03-2021-0175 - [link]
- Harwin Vries, Joris Klundert & Albert Wagelmans (2021) - Toward Elimination of Infectious Diseases with Mobile Screening Teams: HAT in the DRC - Production and Operations Management, 30 (10), 3408-3428 - doi: 10.1111/poms.13440 - [link]
- H (Harwin) de Vries, Marianne Jahre, K (Kostas) Selviaridis, Kim E. van Oorschot & LNJL van Wassenhove (2021) - A review of scientific and grey literature on medicine shortages and the need for a research agenda in Operations and Supply Chain Management - Unknown - [link]
- Rob van Tulder, Maarten Boksem, Ale Smidts, Harwin de Vries, Pursey Heugens, Gerrit van Bruggen, Wolf Wagner, Aurelie Lemmens, Julija Mell, Rommert Dekker & Hang Chan (1 December 2021) - ERIM recognises outstanding researchers with annual awards
- Rob van Tulder, Harwin de Vries & L.C.P.M. Meijs (8 June 2021) - Using the best knowledge from business for the humanitarian sector
Health & Humanitarian Logistics
- Year Level
- master, master, master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BMME142