{"id":84037,"date":"2023-08-24T12:05:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?post_type=profile&p=84037"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:51:29","slug":"peter-mayer","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/profile\/peter-mayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Mayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lecturer Peter Mayer began teaching at Boston University in 2022, leading courses in supply chain management in BU Metropolitan College\u2019s Department of Administrative Sciences. Prior to this, he served as a faculty member at the City University of New York and has lectured at Albertus Magnus College, Marist College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Roger Williams University, where he taught various courses in business strategy, supply chain management, business organization, and international business. Mayer\u2019s career spans many of the practice areas within global supply chain and business strategy management, including leading supply chain organizations within highly regulated industries such as aerospace, biotechnology, chemicals, and consumer packaged goods, where regulatory issues include product safety and security. He has held various positions in product distribution, business logistics, and global sourcing at Unilever and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., as well as C-level positions in global supply chain and business strategy with PAS Technologies, Inc., Chemtura Corporation, Key MRO America, Inc. (IBM), LONZA Biologics, and The Hartford. Mayer brings to his courses relevant, real-world examples from business strategy and planning; contracts and negotiations; operational improvement; supply chain management; acquisitions and mergers; purchasing and payables; analytics; costing and pricing; grants and proposals; logistics management; coaching and mentoring; and international trade. Mayer is also a lifetime Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) and a founding director of the Institute of Supply Chain Management (ISM) services industry group, where he led the initial development of the group. He has been a Lean Six Sigma coach for large, publicly traded organizations, conducting training for Blackbelt practitioners within the pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and other industries. As an executive advisor and coach, Mayer conducts supply chain strategy evaluations and provides expert testimony in highly visible and publicized contractual disputes. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration degree, focusing on executive leadership.<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h2>
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  • Supply Chain Contingency Planning<\/li>\n
  • Redundant Supply Systems<\/li>\n
  • Import and Export Compliance<\/li>\n
  • Executive Coaching Results and HCROI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Courses<\/h2>
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    • MET AD 680 \u2013 Global Supply Chains<\/li>\n

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    • MET AD 690 \u2013 Supply Chain Logistics<\/li>\n

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    • MET AD 715 \u2013 Quantitative and Qualitative Decision-Making<\/li>\n

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    • MET AD 760 \u2013 International Trade and Logistics<\/li>\n

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      Scholarly Works<\/h2>
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      Conferences and Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Chair, Paper Presentations (Compendium and Presentations), L&D Elysium, Indian Institute of Public Administration and Forum for Intelligence Learning (FEIL), February 2021.<\/p>\n

      Co-Presenter, \u201cPandemic Higher Education in Mumbai and New York City. A Comparative Study.\u201d L&D Elysium, Indian Institute of Public Administration, February 2021.<\/p>\n

      Panelist, \u201cCoaching for Academic Leadership.\u201d L&D Elysium, Indian Institute of Public Administration, January 2021.<\/p>\n

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