Joern Meissner is an academic, business consultant, and entrepreneur. He the founder of Manhattan Review, a multi-national test prep, MBA admissions consulting, and career training company. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science from the Columbia Business School under the supervision of Professors Awi Federgruen and Costis Maglaras. [1] He is a current lecturer in the Management Science Department at the Lancaster University Management School and also lectures at the University of Hamburg and the University of Manheim, and has taught at Handelshochschule Leipzig (the Leipzig Graduate School of Management).[2]
Dr. Meissner is an authority in the area of Supply Chain Management, Dynamic Pricing, and Revenue Management.[3] His paper “Dynamic pricing strategies for multiproduct revenue management problem," jointly written with Costis Maglaras, was a finalist in the MSOM Best Paper award 2009.[4][5] He frequently advises companies ranging from Fortune 500 companies to emerging start-ups on various issues related to his research.[6]
He has been published in various journals including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM); Operations Research; Naval Research Logistics; European Journal of Operations Research, and written several book chapters.
Dr. Meissner has also been featured in BusinessWeek for Manhattan Review’s Communications Bootcamp with Columbia Business School. Newsweek, The Independent, The Times, Handelsblatt and Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung have also quoted Dr. Meissner regarding the GMAT and MBA admissions.[7][8]