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Dr. Mark Brennan
Assistant Professor
Management – Operations Management
Office: BSB 316
Phone: (856) 225-6217
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Mark Brennan is an assistant professor, logistician, and data scientist at Rutgers University–Camden. His work focuses on retail and frontline services, with the aim of making basic necessities—food, housing, and healthcare—more available to people in need. Mark is committed to broadening operations management’s empirical evidence base in these areas, building bridges between supply chain ideas and urban planning problems, and sharing this thinking in public forums, including The Hill and New Jersey media outlets, like the Star-Ledger. Mark’s academic work on health and urban operations has appeared in top journals across the operations and policy domains from Production and Operations Management to the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He has advanced this agenda in Health Care Management Science, Urban Affairs Review, Cities & Health, and Housing Policy Debate, among others. At Rutgers, with Karti Puranam, he runs the Jersey Logistics Report, an occasional roundup of Jersey logistics news, which reaches c-suites across the state’s cities and companies.
Before joining Rutgers, Mark held operational and analyst roles: running the UN’s food stamps retail operation in Somalia in 2023, working in analytics with a major public ambulance service and at New York City’s largest nonprofit hospital, and researching on studies commissioned by USAID and FEMA.
Mark was born and raised in Central Jersey. He earned his PhD from MIT, studied applied mathematics on a Mitchell Scholarship, and completed his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University. In his free time he can be found browsing eBay for 1800s industrial invoices and paperwork from Central New Jersey, and jogging on the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which he has run every mile of.
Research Interests: Frontline Services, Retail, Inequality, Urban Planning, Health
Representative Publications:
- Mark Brennan, Tanaya Sirini, and Justin Steil. ”High and dry: Rental markets after flooding disasters.” Urban Affairs Review, 2024.
- Mark Brennan. ”Revisiting equity in urban operations management 50 years later: What do city planners have to say?” Production and Operations Management, 2024.
- Mark Brennan, Jonas Jonasson, Sophia Dyer, James Salvia, Laura Segal, Erin Serino, and Justin Steil. ”The policy case for designating EMS teams for vulnerable patient populations: evidence from an intervention in Boston.” Health Care Management Science, 2024. 27(1):72-87.
- Mark Brennan, Stephen Graves, Jonars Spielberg, and Bish Sanyal. ”Operations, risk, and small firms: Field results from irrigation equipment vendors in Senegal.” Production and Operations Management, 2022. 31, 3594–3610.
- Mark Brennan, Aditi Mheta, and Justin Steil. ”In harm’s way? The effect of disasters on the magnitude and location of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit allocations.”Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41(2),486-514.
- Jaime Andres Castaneda, Mark Brennan, and Jarrod Goentzel. ”A behavioral investigation of supply chain contracts for a newsvendor problem in a developing economy.” International Journal of Production Economics, 2019. 210, 72-83.
Courses Taught: Supply Chain and Operations Mangaement; Operations Management
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TYAKOoUAAAAJ&hl=en
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark-Brennan-5