The Hearin Center for Enterprise Science brings together the nation's top scholars in the field of operations research and management science to focus on theories of optimization and their application to real world business problems. 

Funding for the Center is provided by the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation, of Jackson, a continuing supporter of the School.

Unique in its marriage of theory and practice, the Center plans to match faculty-student research teams with corporate clients.  The center's teams will apply special expertise and software to companies' problems, typically producing innovative and low-cost prototype studies.

DIRECTOR:

Dr. Bahram Alidaee (Interim Director)
Associate Professor of Business Administration
e-mail: balidaee@bus.olemiss.edu

PAST DIRECTORS:

Dr. Fred Glover
Founding Research Director
e-mail: fglover@bus.olemiss.edu

Dr. Gary Kochenberger
Founding Administrative Director
e-mail: gkochenberger@bus.olemiss.edu

Dr. Keith Womer
Professor of Business Administration
e-mail: kwomer@bus.olemiss.edu