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Dr. Mark Brennan

Assistant Professor

Management – Operations Management

Office: BSB 316

Phone: (856) 225-6217

Email: mark.brennan@rutgers.edu

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dr. Mark Brennan is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Rutgers School of Business–Camden. Mark works on the operational dimensions of inequality: showing how supply chains reproduce inequality and strengthening them through applied projects, field research, and nationwide econometric studies. Focusing on the essential operations that keep people fed, housed, and healthy, he is working to broaden operation management’s empirical evidence base, link ideas in supply chain and urban planning, and share this thinking in popular media including New Jersey newspapers.

Prior to Rutgers, Dr. Brennan led the UN’s food stamps program in Somalia; did analytics for Boston’s public ambulance service on opioids, homelessness, and traffic crashes; and ran studies for USAID and for FEMA on post-disaster aid. Dr. Brennan was born and raised in Central Jersey. He received his Ph.D. from MIT, and before that studied applied math on a Mitchell Scholarship and for a BA at Johns Hopkins University.

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: Operations Management

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