Awards
- Titled Professor - 2024
- OneAmerica Foundation Chair
About Amrou Awaysheh
Dr. Amrou Awaysheh is the OneAmerica Foundation Endowed chair. He is a faculty member in Operations and Supply Chain Management, and Sustainability at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Awaysheh is the Executive and Academic Director of the IU Business Sustainability and Innovation Lab and raised over $64 million to study and enhance sustainability practices in manufacturing facilities. Along with corporate partners, this money is used to enhance regenerative manufacturing and build more sustainable supply chains. Dr. Awaysheh’s research has been awarded over $9 million from public sources and over $12 from private institutions. He led Indiana University’s effort secure funding from the Department of Energy and was instrumental to IU to become a managing member of the Cyber Security and Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII), the 16th US Manufacturing Innovation Center.
Awaysheh’s work has appeared in top academic journals such as: Strategic Management Journal, Production and Operations Management, and the Journal of Operations Management and talk about it in the popular press, including: Forbes, the Economist, the Financial Times, and the World Economic Forum. He’s also appeared on TV on CNBC, ABC, NBC, NPR, Fox, BBC, and CBS to talk about his research and related business issues. Awaysheh has won over 25 awards for teaching and research, including the IU Trustees teaching Award, the Lilly Alumni MBA Teaching Excellent Award, and the Evening MBA Teaching Excellence Award. He was a finalist for professor of the year for The Economist and was selected as Professor of the week by the Financial Times and named as one of the “40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs under 40.”
Awaysheh works with Fortune 500 companies as they integrate sustainability in their operations and supply chains. The combined impact that these projects have is that they prevented over 34 million tons of CO2 emissions, diverted over 6 million tons pounds of waste and plastics from landfills, prevented the extraction of 134 billion gallons of water, and reduced over 152 trillion BTU’s off energy.