Johnny Rungtusanatham

M. Johnny Rungtusanatham is Fisher Colleger of Business Distinguished Professor of Management Sciences.  Before joining Fisher in 2011, he worked for the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota (20062011), the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (19982006), and the School of Business of the University of WisconsinMadison (19951998), where he held faculty and various administrative positions. Those included academic codirector of the Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality, PhD coordinator for the Operations and Management Sciences Department, academic director for the Chevron Advanced Certificate Program in Supply Chain Management, and founding faculty director for the W. P. Carey MBA – Online Program.

At Fisher, Rungtusanatham led and taught the undergraduate core operations management course and in 2014 recently received the Daniel Westerbeck Undergraduate Teaching Award. He currently teaches in  the working professional MBA program. He also has taught in the fulltime, parttime and Executive MBA Programs at Carlson and the W.P. Carey School.  While at W. P. Carey, Rungtusanatham was the first winner of the John Teets Outstanding Graduate Professor Award (2000).  In 2000, he also received the distinction of Foreign Professor of High Qualification from the Università di Padova, Italy.

Rungtusanatham has expertise in mass customization, quality management, and supply chain design.  He research, published in prestigious academic and practitioner journals, has been recognized with the 2011 Citation of Excellence_from Emerald Management Reviews, the _2004  __Best Paper Award_from the _Production Planning & Control journal, the 2004 Best Paper Award_from the _Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, and the_2005 E. Grosvenor Plowman Best Paper Award_from the CSCMP Annual Conference. His publications were finalists for the 2005 _ Journal of Operations Management _Best Paper Award and the 2008 Chan K. Hahn Best Paper Award_from the operations management division of the Academy of Management.  At Carlson, Rungtusanatham won the _2007 Faculty Research Award.

Awards

July 2019-Present Canada Research Chair in Supply Chain Management (Tier 1)

November 2020 2019 Best Paper Finalist, Decision Sciences

April 2018-April 2019 President, Decision Sciences Institute

July 2018 Keynote Speaker, The “Sharing” Economy: What Do I Have to Fear as an Operations and Supply Chain Management Professor? 2018 APDSI Annual Conference, Bangkok, THAILAND

2017-2018 Recipient, Fisher College of Business Recognition Awards

November 2017 Fellow, Decision Sciences Institute

June 2017 Keynote Speaker, Theory-Driven Empirical Research in Supply Chain Management: How to Write for Top Journals and Survive the Review Process? Soochow Forum for Empirical Operations & Supply Chain Management, CHINA

June-July 2017 Visiting Chair Professor, Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HONG KONG

April 2017 Keynote Speaker, Why Are (Your) Supply Chain Disruptions Severe? Firm and Managerial Considerations, 2017 Midwest DSI Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

April 2017-March 2018 President-Elect, Decision Sciences Institute

October 2016 Distinguished Speaker, Why Are (Your) Supply Chain Disruptions Severe? Firm and Managerial Considerations, 2016 Midwest Academy of Management, Fargo, ND, USA

2015 Dennis E. Grawoig Distinguished Service Award, Decision Sciences Institute

2015 Award for Teaching Excellence, IE Business School, Madrid, SPAIN

2015 Top 100 individual researchers with greatest overall contribution to the field of Operations Management by Shang et al. (2015), “Twenty-Six Years of Operations Management Research (1985-2010): Authorship Patterns and Research Constituents in Eleven Top Rated Journals,” International Journal of Production Research, 53(20): 6161-6197

June 2015 Keynote Speaker, Theory-Driven Survey Research in Supply Chain and Operations Management: Reflections and Calls-to-Action, EDSI 2015 Conference, Taormina, ITALY

September 2014 Keynote Speaker, Research in Supply Chain and Operations Management: Looking Back & Looking Forward, OM Division, XXXVIII EnANPAD, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL

2014 Fisher Research Fellow, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University

2014 Daniel Westerbeck Undergraduate Teaching Award, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University

2011 Citation of Excellence, Emerald Management Reviews

2011 Outstanding Decision Sciences Journal Associate Editor

Areas of Expertise

• Process analysis
• Quality improvement
• Mass customization
• Buyersupplier relationship
• Operations strategy

Education

• PhD in Business Administration, University of Minnesota
• BS in Business Administration, BirminghamSouthern College