Harvey Maurice Wagner (November 20, 1931 – July 23, 2017[1]) was an American management scientist, consultant, and Professor of Operations Research and Innovation Management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, known for his books on Operations Research and his seminal work on the dynamic lot-size model with Thomson M.
[2][3] Wagner was born and raised in San Francisco and moved to Los Angeles in 1941.
He received his BS in 1953 and his MS in 1954 from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960.
In 1954 Wagner started his academic career at Stanford University, where from 1957 to 1967 he was Professor at the Graduate School of Business.
In 1969 Wagner was awarded the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for his 1969 book Principles of Operations Research.