Late Dr. Kleindorfer was Founding Academic Advisor for Near-Miss Management. He was Distinguished Professor in Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD. He was also a faculty member at the Wharton School from 1973 to 2006 and later became the Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science. He held appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, The Wharton School, and several universities and research institutes. He published over 25 books and many papers in the areas of operations management, managerial economics and regulation. He graduated with distinction (BS) from the U.S. Naval Academy, studied on a Fulbright Fellowship in Mathematics at the University of Tübingen, followed by his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University in Systems and Communication Sciences.