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Jayashankar M. Swaminathan                                                 New Book

 

Jayashankar (Jay) M. Swaminathan is the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Kay and Van Weatherspoon Distinguished Professor  of   Operations, Technology and Innovation Management,  Kenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina  at Chapel Hill.

 

Professor Swaminathan’s  research interests include mass customization, retail operations,  managing operations  in emerging economies in particular China and India and the role of technology in business innovation. He has  published extensively on the above topics in scholarly journals such as  Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations  Management, Production and Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics,  Decision Sciences, Operations Research Letters, European Journal of  Operational  Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review and Interfaces. His book on business opportunities in India  titled Indian Economic Superpower: Fiction or Future?  released in January 2009.

 

Professor Swaminathan has been invited to present his work at leading institutions in the U.S. including Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Northwestern, MIT, Duke, NYU, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, USC, Purdue and in other parts of the world  including London Business School, Tsinghua University, ITESM Monterrey, Indian Institute of Management and  Indian School of Business. 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 the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).

 

Professor Swaminathan has consulted with a number of firms including IBM, Agilent, Converge, Cemex, Nokia, Nova Chemicals, Kaiser Permanente, Public Health Institute, Railinc, Sara Lee, Smartops, Samsung and UNICEF. His  expert opinions have appeared  in Business Week, Dow Jones Newswire, Financial Times, Reuters Online, Forbes, CIO Magazine, Newsweek, Chief Executive and Information Week.

 

He has taught courses in Global Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Doing Business in India, Strategic Information Technology, Mass Customization and Business Innovation and Transformations in MBA, executive MBA and executive programs.

 

Professor Swaminathan obtained his doctoral and masters degrees in Industrial Administration with a specialization in Management of Manufacturing and Automation at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering from  IIT Delhi. Prior to joining  Kenan-Flagler Business School he was an assistant professor at  Walter A. Haas School of Business,  University of California, Berkeley