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Rob Glew

Title: 
Assistant Professor (Teaching), Operations Management; Program Director, MMA (Online); Associate Director, Managing Disruption (Analytics, AI and Advanced Digital Technologies)
Rob Glew
Contact Information
Email address: 
rob.glew [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Bronfman Building [Map]
1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3A 1G5

Degree(s): 

PhD, Industrial Engineering & Operations Management, University of Cambridge (2023)

MEng, Industrial Engineering & Operations Management, University of Cambridge (2019)

BA, Industrial Engineering & Operations Management, Queens' College, University of Cambridge (2018)

Area(s): 
Operations Management
Teaching areas: 

Statistics, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Project Management

Link(s): 
Personal Website
LinkedIn Profile
Office: 
527
Office hours: 

By Appointment

Biography: 

Rob Glew PhD MEng MA (Cantab) is an Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) at Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University and a visiting researcher at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD after 3 years in 2023. His research focuses on the relationship between operations management and culture, through work that has looked at accountability, diversity, and tolerance for failure. His methodological specialties are machine learning (for empirical work), game theory, and mechanism design.

Rob teaches data analytics (MGSC662), operations management (MGCR372), operations research (MGSC373), project risk management (MGSC434 - case method), and statistics (MGCR271) at McGill University. At Cambridge, he taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at Cambridge University Engineering Department and the Cambridge Judge Business School, including lectures and small group supervisions. He guest lectures on data analytics, artificial intelligence, and management science for executive programs in Cambridge and Montreal.

Courses: 

MGCR372 - Operations Management

MGCR271 - Business Statistics

MGSC434 - Project Operations and Risk Analytics

MGSC373 - Operations Research 1

MGSC662 - Decision Analytics

Areas of expertise: 
  1. Operations Management and Organizational Culture
  2. Sustainability and Food Waste
  3. Artificial Intelligence and its Impact on Society
Group: 
Faculty
CAS Professoriate
Stream: 
Operations
Graduate supervision: 

Not currently accepting students.

Taught previously at: 

University of Cambridge

Selected publications: 

Hold Me Accountable: Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in Services, Rob Glew and Claire Senot, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2025 27:4, 1068-1086

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Desautels Faculty Teaching Award (2024)
  • Cambridge Chancellors Commendation (2021)
  • Cambridge Vice Chancellors Award (2021)
  • Cambridge Professional Service Award (2021)
  • Munro Teaching Fellow, Queens' College (2021)
  • EPSRC-Siemens Doctoral Scholar (2019)
  • Queens' College Foundation Scholarship (2019)
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