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FACULTY
Professor
Dean, Academic
EADS-SMI Chair Professor of Sourcing & Supply Management
Chairperson, Centre for Supply Chain Management
Ph. D., Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA, 1986
PGDM, IIM Calcutta, India, 1976
B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, 1971
Research Areas:
Capacity Planning; Innovation and Technology Management; Supply Chain Management; Healthcare Management; Production Planning and Inventory Control; Scheduling; Queing Network Models of Manufacturing; Off-line and On-line quality Control
Recent Consulting:
BOTIL Industries Ltd.
Orchid Chemicals Ltd.
Sree Cements Ltd.
Madhusudan Industries Ltd.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
IBM
Palladian Software Inc.
Institute of Public Enterprise
Current Projects:
Healthcare Sector- Application of Operations Management principles in Hospitals
Supply Chain Management
Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: April 2009-present
IIM Ahmedabad, India, Professor, 1998-2009,
University of Texas at Austin, USA, Professor, 1986-1998,
Melbourne Business School, Australia, Visiting Faculty, 2003 onwards
Other Assignments:
IDL Chemicals Ltd. Hyderabad, India (1979 - 1982)
Engineers India Ltd.., New Delhi, India (1977 - 1979)
Planning Commission, Government of India (1971 - 1974)
Other Professional Appointments:
Editor, Technology, Operations and Management, current
Associate Editor, Management Science, current
Associate Editor, Operations Research
Area Editor, Production and Operations Management
Awards:
IBM Pre- Doctoral Fellow, 1985
Presidential Young Investigator, 1989
Award for Research Excellence, University of Texas at Austin, 1990
Significant Publications:
Journal Articles and Other Refereed Publications
‘Permutation Flowshop Scheduling with Earliness and Tardiness Penalties,' (with P. Chandra and P. Mehta), International Journals of Production Research, forthcoming
"Role of Technological Innovations for Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship," Journal of Entrepreneurship, forthcoming
"Melbourne Pathology," (with K. Sethuraman), Asian Case Research Journal, 11-1-2007, 141 - 159
"Multi-product, multi-constraint single period inventory problem: A hierarchical solution procedure," (with Satyendra Kumar and V. Venkata Rao), IJOQM, 12-1-2006
"Strategies to cope with Bullwhip Effect in Hospitals," (with K. Sethuraman), Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems, Idea Group, forthcoming
"Evidence of bullwhip effect in healthcare sector: Causes, consequences and cures," (with K. Sethuram), International Journal Of Services and Operations Management, 1-4-2005, 372-394