Mark Gershon

Profile Picture of Mark Gershon

Mark Gershon

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Statistical Science

      • Professor

Biography

Professor Gershon teaches Operations Management and electives in Project Management and Lean Six Sigma. He has published widely in these areas, having written approximately 50 research journal articles and three books. His teaching has been cited as among the best in the school, where he has won the Lindback Award for outstanding teaching.

Outside of Temple, he is on the editorial boards of four journals and consults to industry. Companies on every continent invite him regularly, and from this he brings many realistic situations and a broad experience into the classroom. People really use the research that he has developed. He holds the Ph.D. degree in Engineering from the University of Arizona and is certified as a registered Professional Engineer (PE), a Project Management Professional (PMP), and a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Research Interests

  • Project Management
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

MSOM 3101

Operations Management

Undergraduate

EMGT 5636

Lean Six Sigma and the Science of Improvement

Graduate

MSOM 5806

Managing Operations in the Enterprise

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Townsend, R. & Gershon, M. (2020). Attaining Successful Construction Project Execution through Personnel and Communication. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(9). doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001892.

  • Bagherian, A. & Gershon, M. (2020). Relationship between Employee Education and Success of Six Sigma Implementation within the Automobile Industry in Europe. SDMIMD Journal of Management, 11(1), 45-53. doi: 10.18311/sdmimd/2020/25170.

  • Stone, T.W., Gershon, M., & Meyers, H. (2019). The ROI of Investments in Lean Agile Software Development Training.

  • Gershon, M.E., Stone, T., & Meyers, H. The ROI of Investments in Lean Agile Software Development. NBES Conference, San Juan, PR.

  • Gershon, M.E., Stone, T., & Meyers, H. (2021). Productivity Experiments in Lean Agile Software Development. Journal of Industrial Marketing and Business.