Michael Trick is the associate dean of research and a professor of operations research at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business (formerly the Graduate School of Industrial Administration), a school he joined in 1989. From 1998 through 2005 he was also president of the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management, a research institute specializing in research support, conferences, and executive education on international management issues. He was the recipient of the Bosch Professorship from 2003-2005. The students of Tepper awarded him the George Leland Bach Award as the top teacher in the program in 1991 and 2010. In 1995, he was appointed the founding editor of INFORMS Online and in 2002 he was president of that society. From 2004-2009, he was vice-president, North America for the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, an umbrella organization of 46 national operations research societies. He has consulted extensively with the United States Postal Service on supply chain design, with Major League Baseball and a number of college basketball conferences on scheduling issues, and with companies such as Motorola and Sony on machine scheduling. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).