John O. McClain, professor of production and quantitative analysis at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named the president of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society. With over 900 members, the society is the largest and most rapidly growing division of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

McClain, who has been a member of the Cornell faculty since 1970, has taught courses in production and operations management, statistics, quality management, quantitative methods and health systems management.

He is the author of six books, including the textbook Operations Management: Production of Goods and Services, and has worked with the developers of the XCELL+ Factory Modeling System as author of the user's manual and a casebook of applications.

McClain has won fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson and the Ford foundations and was chosen as a Mobil Scholar and a Whitcomb Fellow.

He has conducted research on production control, forecasting systems, supply systems, quality improvement and facility capacity and has consulted for businesses worldwide, including IBM and P.T. Sango Ceramics in Indonesia.

McClain, who earned his bachelor's degree at Washington State University, and master's and doctoral degrees from Yale University, has been a member of the Cornell faculty since 1970.