Bernardo (Bernie) F. Quiroga, Ph.D.

Expertise

Bernardo (Bernie) F. Quiroga, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management (with tenure) in the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. 

Bernie is a native of Arica, Chile. After scoring the nationwide highest score on his PAA (Chilean SAT) college entrance exams, he enrolled at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC Chile), where he majored in Economics and Management Sciences, completing concurrently a Master’s degree in Economics with a concentration in Public Policy, plus a Specialist Diploma from the Inter-American Program in Applied Macro (PIMA) organized jointly by UC Chile and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Bernie then attended Penn State for graduate studies, obtaining two more Master's degrees (one in Economics, another in Supply Chain and Information Systems) and a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Supply Chain and Information Systems.

After graduating for the third time from Penn State in 2015, Bernie joined Clemson University's College of Business and Behavioral Sciences as Assistant Professor of Operations Management. Three years later, he became a founding faculty member of the Business Analytics and Quantitative Methods area within the School of Management at UC Chile, his first alma mater. He joined the Supply Chain Management group at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics in 2022.

Bernie is an expert in Behavioral Operations, Public Sector and Healthcare Decision Making, and Procurement, as well as an expert in research methodology. His research has been published in leading journals in the profession, such as the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Business Logistics, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (formerly Interfaces), Operations Research Letters, and International Transactions in Operational Research. Given the multi-disciplinary span of his work, his research has also been published in high-impact journals in other disciplines, including entrepreneurship (Family Business Review), higher educational accreditation (Higher Education Policy, Studies in Higher Education), and healthcare policy (Frontiers in Public Health). According to Google Scholar, his research has been cited over 1,200 times.

Bernie’s pioneering research on Stroke Care team learning through best practices adoption (developed with his former student Brandon Lee and three other coauthors) won the 2025 Jack Meredith Award, given to the best research article published in the Journal of Operations Management in the prior year. [https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2024/06/24/standardized-protocols-help-hospitals-treat-strokes-faster-wvu-research-finds] [https://businessmagazine.wvu.edu/the-ticker/2024/04/19/supply-change] [https://youtu.be/THUXHZbmBlw] [https://enews.wvu.edu/articles/2025/02/27/quiroga-honored-for-his-work-on-hospitals-treatment-of-strokes]

Bernie is also an internationally recognized editor and peer reviewer for the top scholarly journals in his area. He is Department Editor for Operations Interfaces of the Journal of Operations Management since July 2025, and served as Associate Editor for the journal between May 2016 and June 2025. He has been elected to receive awards twice for his service to the journal as Associate Editor, in 2017 and 2022. He is also Associate Editor of the Decision Sciences Journal since December 2022, and serves regularly as a peer reviewer for most of the other journals in the SCM List.

As an instructor, Bernie has experience teaching courses in Statistics, Econometrics, Optimization, Data Analytics, Decision Analysis, Microeconomics, Supply Chain Analytics, Mathematical Applications for Economics and Management, Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Distribution Management, Sourcing and Supply Management, Behavioral Operations, and Operations Management, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

An avid research collaborator, Bernie has an Erdos number of (at most) 4.

Personal Website (http://www.quiroga.org) 

Education

• Ph.D., Business Administration (Supply Chain and Information Systems), The Pennsylvania State University at University Park
• M.S., Business Administration (Supply Chain and Information Systems), The Pennsylvania State University at University Park
• M.A., Economics, The Pennsylvania State University at University Park
• Magister (M.S.), Economics with a concentration in Public Policy, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
• Specialist Diploma, Inter-American Program in Applied Macroeconomics (PIMA), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Inter-American Development Bank.
• Licenciado (B.Sc.), Economics and Management Sciences, and Commercial Engineer with a concentration in Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Recent Publications

For a full list of publications, please visit http://www.quiroga.org.