Sara L. Beckman has taught at the Haas School for over fifteen years in the areas of operations management, manufacturing strategy and product design and development. During that time she has won the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award three times and the campus Distinguished Teaching Award once. She has also worked at Hewlett-Packard where she was Director of the Product Generation Change Management Team, which modeled manufacturing strategy decisions and implemented team management structures in new product development, and in the Operations Management practice at Booz, Allen and Hamilton. She presently serves on the boards of the Corporate Design Foundation and the Building Materials Holding Corporation.

Professor Beckman served as the Management of Technology Program's Co-Chairperson from 1991-1997.

MOT Course(s):

• MANAGING THE NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: DESIGN THEORY & METHODS