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Recent Scholarly Publications
“Effect
of Traffic on Sales and Conversion Rates of Retail Stores”, with Olga
Perdikaki and Saravanan Kesavan, to appear Manufacturing and Service
Operations Management.
“Segmentation
Opportunities for a Social Planner: Impact of Limited Resources”, with Muge
Yayla-Kullu and Ali Parlakturk, Decision Sciences, 2011.
“Misplaced Inventory and RFID: Information
and Coordination”, with Almula Camdereli, Production and Operations
Management, 2010.
”A
Matter of Balance: Specialization, Task Variety, and Individual Learning in
a Software Maintenance Environment”, with Sriram Narayanan and Sridhar
Balasubramanian, Management Science,
2009.
“Managing
the Inventory of an Item with a Replacement Warranty”, with Wei Huang and
Vidyadhar Kulkarni, Management Science, 2008.
Current Research
UNICEF
Plumpy’Nut Project for Africa
Sustainable
Operations and the Impact of Legislation
Conversion
Rate at Retailers and its Impact on Profits
Integration in
Global Supply Chains
Doctoral Students
Current
Karthik Natarajan
Former
Hans
Sebastian Heese, Indiana
Wei Huang, SAS
Almula
Camdereli, Georgetown
Sriram
Narayanan, Michigan State
Muge
Yayla-Kullu, RPI
Olga
Perdikaki, Texas A&M
Gokce
Esenduran, Ohio State
Yen-Ting
Lin, University of San Diego
Vidya
Mani, Penn State
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Jayashankar
(Jay) M. Swaminathan is GlaxoSmithKline
Distinguished Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation
Management and Director of the UNC Center for International
Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the Kenan-Flagler Business School,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to joining
Kenan-Flagler he
was an assistant professor at Walter A. Haas School of Business, University
of California, Berkeley.
Professor Swaminathan is an expert in
global supply chain management, sustainable operations, mass customization,
retail operations, and
innovation in business operations. He has published over 50
articles on these topics. His research has been recognized
with awards including the CAREER Award
given by the National Science
Foundation, the George E.
Nicholson Prize, George B. Dantzig Award
and Daniel H.Wagner Prize given by INFORMS.
He is also an
award winning teacher who has been recognized with the Weatherspoon Distinguished Teaching Award as
well as the Schwabacher Fellowship.
Professional
Leadership
Current
Department Editor: POM
Member: Deloitte Academic Advisory Council
Fellow: UNC Academic Leadership Program
Director: UNC CIBER
Past
Senior Associate Dean: UNC
Kenan-Flagler
Area Chair, UNC Kenan-Flagler
Co-Director, UNC-Tsinghua Center
President, College of Supply Chain Management, POMS
Vice President: INFORMS, MSOM Society
Associate
Editor: Management
Science, Operations Research, IIE, NRL, OR Letters
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Education
Ph.D., GSIA, Carnegie
Mellon University
MS, GSIA, Carnegie
Mellon University
B.Tech,
Computer Science, IIT Delhi
Book
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Practice Oriented
Publications
“Case
Study: Getting Food to Disaster Victims”, Financial Times,
2010.
“Looking Long Term on the Passage to Chindia”, Financial Times, 2009.
“Is
India Labeled as Slumdog Superpower” Triangle
Business Journal, 2009.
”India on Brakes”, Smart
Manager,2009. “How to Avoid the
Six Risk Management Pitfalls”, with Brian Tomlin, Supply
Chain Management Review, 2007.
“Risk Management:
A Key Ingredient in Successful M&A Integrations”, with Brian Tomlin, Financial
Times, 2006.
Media Mentions
Manufacturing
ready to battle slowdown, Financial
Times, 2011
Supply
chains: it pays to keep the ear to the ground, Financial Times, 2009
Retail Development in
this Economy, NPR Charlotte,
2009
Consumers
Spend Less During Economic Crisis, NBC-17, 2008
Why
Wilbur likes India, Business
Week, 2008
Biggest
Scare Factor in Business, WRAL,
2008
Green
supply chains: moving beyond logistics, Financial Times, 2007
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