Henrietta von Eben-Worlee, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate

Hamburg GERMANY

Dr. von Eben-Worlee's research takes an empirical approach to operations and supply chain management.

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Biography

Dr. Henrietta von Eben-Worlée is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, where she works in the Digital Supply Chain Transformation Lab. Her research takes an empirical approach to operations and supply chain management, using behavioral experiments to study human-AI interaction and the drivers of AI and Generative AI adoption for operational decision-making. She earned her PhD at Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg, Germany, titled "Enabling Human-AI Collaboration for the Future of Operations and Supply Chain Work: Experimental Evidence on AI Design and Decision-Making." During her PhD, she worked in close collaboration with Bayer Consumer Care AG, supporting their AI transformation in supply chain planning and spent research stays at The Ohio State University and IE University in Madrid. Henrietta received a M.Sc. in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Kühne Logistics University after she completed her Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration.

Research Focus

Intelligent & Autonomous Supply Chains

AI-driven, data-centric, and increasingly autonomous decision systems for supply chain planning and execution.

Supply Chain Strategy & Network Architecture

Designing the structural configuration and competitive positioning of supply networks.

Critical Systems & Supply Network Resilience

Ensuring continuity, preparedness, and mission assurance under disruption and geopolitical volatility.

Areas of Expertise

AI and Supply Chain

Human-AI Interaction

Supply Chain Management

Operations Management

Generative AI Adoption

Operational Decision-Making

Education

KLU Kühne Logistics University

MSc

Global Logistics & Supply Chain Management

2020

DTU - Technical University of Denmark

2019

Hochschule Fresenius

Business Administration

2017

Languages

German
English

Research Papers

Designing Supply Chain Work with Artificial Intelligence

Academy of Management Proceedings

Henrietta v. Eben-Worlée, Prisca Brosi, Kai Hoberg

2025-07-01

[no abstract available]

Careers of Supply Chain Executives: Insights, Unknowns, and Future Directions

Journal of Business Logistics

Henrietta v. Eben-Worlée, Kai Hoberg, Robert Glenn Richey, Beth Davis‐Sramek

2025-06-01

Little is known about the careers of supply chain executives. This study revisits and extends the logistics and supply chain executive career pattern research by Flöthmann and Hoberg to take a fresh look at supply chain talents and to guide future research on this important topic. We collect new data to understand how supply chain executive careers evolve and how the next generation of logistics and supply chain executives differs from its predecessors. In this editorial study, we find support for the notion that logistics and supply chain management is a genuinely cross‐functional profession, as more than half of the 293 executives identified in the original study are now working in other functions. This proliferation of talent can help firms increase supply chain awareness and spread expertise. Further, we find that 44.0% of the logistics and supply chain executives have advanced their hierarchical level, with 10.6% making it to the board level. We show with a panel of new supply chain executives that the six career patterns previously identified still hold. However, the average career spent inside the supply chain area has increased significantly from 12.0% to 20.2%. Similarly, the cluster composition has evolved toward “Homegrowns,” making it the most frequent cluster.