Janaina (Jane) Siegler

Dr. Janaina Siegler, or simply Jane, is a tenured Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Analytics at the Lacy School of Business, Butler University. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations and Supply Chain Management from FGV in Brazil and Indiana University, Indiana. As a college professor for over fifteen years, Jane has taught thousands of undergraduate and graduate students in Brazil, the U.S., India, and Europe. As a consultant and an entrepreneur herself, Jane has had the opportunity to live and breathe the challenges of the concepts she teaches. Because of her background, Jane is a firm believer that “to teach business to future business leaders, one must engage with the business, both in our backyard and around the world”. She has actively engaged the business community in her academic and professional research aiming to leverage and share the knowledge created together between academia and the businesses, for the business community, and for business students. Her research interests include supply chain resilience, buyer and supplier relationships, business clusters, and technologies related to the supply chain. Dr. Siegler has a special collaboration with the automotive and logistics industry. She has presented her research at over 80 conferences in different parts of the world and her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the IJPE, RAC, and IJLSM, among others. Over the last five years, she has been honored with eight best paper awards, one runner-up, one best conference discussant award, two industry awards for the impact of her research on the broader community, and the Best MBA Teacher of the Year award in 2023. Not included on that count are also seven media appearances.

Jane is a proud mother of two Butler graduates – Go Dawgs – and has two little ones at home. She loves to travel and in her free time, she enjoys hanging out with her dogs, her loved ones, going out for runs, and being in contact with nature. She has completed dozens of half marathons, one full marathon, and is currently in training for her first ultra marathon.