Robert is an Associate Professor in the School of Marketing and Innovation and an Associate with the Monica Wooden Center for Supply Chain Management & Sustainability. He teaches courses in supply chain management, market research and marketing strategy and was the recipient of an Outstanding Faculty Award in 2017 and the USF Gold Medal in 2018. His research focuses on supply chain management. Past and current research is on sustainable supply management, omni-channel, supply chain resilience and business continuity, open innovation and reverse logistics. He has been published in numerous academic journals, including the Journal of Supply Chain Management, the Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management and MIS Quarterly Executive, among others. His research is carried out in partnership with globally recognized companies and he regularly speaks to research and industry audiences. He was accepted to the Fulbright Scholar specialist program in 2016, becoming the first assistant professor from the Muma College of Business to earn this award.
Cat food, a consumer good we used to be able to take for granted, is suddenly scarce on grocery shelves courtesy of the pandemic. Cat owners are scrambling.
We’re just not used to this. We’ve grown accustomed to having everything at our fingertips as soon as we want it.