Recent
Publications Buyback Pricing of
Durable Goods in Dual Distribution Channels, to appear MSOM. Excess Procurement
Strategies by a Dominant Buyer when Supply is Constrained, NRL,
2019. Customer Learning in Call Centers from Previous Waiting
Experiences OR, 2018. Big Data Analytics for
Rapid, Impact, Sustained and Efficient (RISE) Humanitarian Supply Chains, POM,
2018. Are Strategic Customers Bad for a Supply Chain?, MSOM, 2018. Multi-Treatment
Inventory Allocation in Humanitarian Health Settings under Funding
Constraints, POM, 2017. Impact of Take Back
Regulation on the Remanufacturing Industry, POM, 2017. Current Research
Healthcare Operations Technology and Value Chain Innovation Current Teaching Value Chain Innovation (MBA) Operations Management (PhD) Doctoral Students Current Herbie Huang Anand Bhatia Former (Initial
Placements) Wei Huang (STOR), SAS (2005) Almula Camdereli, Georgetown (2006) Sriram Narayanan, Michigan State (2007) Muge Yayla-Kullu, RPI (2008) Olga Perdikaki, Texas A&M (2009) Gokce Esenduran, Ohio State (2010) Yen-Ting Lin, U. San Diego (2011) Vidya Mani, Penn State (2011) Karthik Natarajan, Minnesota (2014) Maggie Zhang, Clemson (2018) Naga Sethuraman, U. Kansas |
Jayashankar (Jay) M. Swaminathan, GlaxoSmithKline
Distinguished Professor of Global Operations at the Kenan-Flagler
Business School and Professor of Statistics
and Operations Research (by courtesy) at the 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 productivity and innovation in business operations. He has
published over 100 articles on these topics. He is an elected Fellow of INFORMS and
POMS. 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 has served as
principal investigator on grants from NSF and CIBER as well as for the Obama-Singh 21st
century knowledge initiative award. He has been recognized
with the Weatherspoon Distinguished
Teaching Award as well as the Schwabacher
Fellowship. He has also been recognized for his outstanding leadership
and dedicated service to Kenan-Flagler with the Roy Holsten Award. He is one of the youngest Distinguished
Professors in the history of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A sought after
speaker, he has interacted
with many organizations around productivity and innovation in
their operations including AGCO,
Agilent, CEMEX, IBM, McKinsey, Nokia, Railinc, Samsung, UNICEF and US Navy. |
Education Ph.D., GSIA, Carnegie Mellon
University MS, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon
University B.Tech, Computer Science, IIT Delhi Book Practice Oriented
Publications “Case Study: 1800 Flower.com’s response to a downturn”, Financial
Times, 2014 When Supply Chains
Save Lives”, Supply Chain
Management Review, 2013. “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. Professional
Leadership Current Department Editor: Management Science and POM Journal Co-Editor (Special Issue): MSOM Journal Past Senior Associate Dean,
Associate Dean of Global EMBA, Area Chair of Operations, Director of UNC
Global Business: UNC Kenan-Flagler Chairman: OneMBA Consortium Fellow: UNC Academic Leadership Program President: College of Supply Chain Management, POMS Vice President: INFORMS, MSOM Society Associate Editor: Management Science, Operations
Research, IIE, NRL, OR Letters |