Bill Berry is Professor of Operations Management and former Director of the Executive MBA program at the McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte.  He received his B.S. degree in Geophysics from Virginia Tech, served in the U.S. Army and worked as a development engineer for the Kendall Corporation.   In pursuit of an academic career, he earned his doctorate from the Harvard Business School.  While there he participated in the International Teachers Program in Leysin, Switzerland.

He has held tenured appointments in the management schools of The Ohio State University and Wake Forest and has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School, Duke's Fuqua and Medical Schools, Southern Methodist's Cox School and the American International Graduate School of Business (Thunderbird).  He was a principal in the group that founded the Executive MBA program at The McColl Graduate School.

Bill has won five awards for teaching excellence.  His primary research and writing interests focus on the strategic relationships between operations, marketing, and organization structure.  He is the author of two books, including Management Decision Sciences: Cases and Readings.  He has also written several articles for scholarly journals and over 100 cases and teaching notes.

Bill operates a consulting practice which focuses on corporate and operating strategies, technology and materials management, mathematical modeling, management of services and management development.  His clients have included AT&T, Anheuser-Busch, Becton-Dickson, British Telecom, Campbell-Taggart, Champion International, Chrysler, Ciba-Geigy, Digital Equipment, First National Bank of Chicago, GTE, Gould, IBM, ITT, the U.S. Justice Department, National Gypsum, National Steel, Pitney-Bowes, Polaroid, Rockwell, Sara Lee,  U.S. Borax, Westinghouse Electric, and the World Bank.