Nagesh Gavirneni

Biography

Nagesh Gavirneni is a professor of operations management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research interests are in the areas of supply chain management, inventory control, production scheduling, simulation, and optimization. He is now using these models and methodologies to solve problems in healthcare, agriculture, and humanitarian logistics in developing countries. His papers have appeared in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research Letters, IIE Transactions, Interfaces, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Before that he was the chief algorithm design engineer of SmartOps, a software architect at Maxager Technology, Inc., and a research scientist with Schlumberger. He has also held visiting faculty positions at Nanyang Business School (Associate Professor, 2011-12) and MIT Sloan School of Management (Professor, 2016-17). His undergraduate degree from IIT-Madras is in mechanical engineering, and he has received master''s degrees from Iowa State University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Selected Publications

• Gavirneni, Nagesh; Kapuscinski, Roman; Tayur, Sridhar. "Value of Information in Capacitated Supply Chains" Management Science. 45.1 (1999): 16-24
• Gavirneni, Nagesh. "Information Flows in Capacitated Supply Chains with Fixed Ordering Costs" Management Science. 48.5 (2002): 644-651
• Gavirneni, Nagesh. "Benefits of Co-operation in a Production Distribution Environment" European Journal of Operational Research. 130.3 (2001): 612-622
• Verma, Arvind; Gavirneni, Nagesh. "Measuring police efficiency in India: an application of data envelopment analysis" Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management. 29.1 (2006): 125-145
• Gavirneni, Nagesh; Isen, Alice. "Anatomy of a Newsvendor Decision: Observations from a Verbal Protocol Analysis" Production and Operations Management. 19.4 (2010): 453-462
• Chen, Lucy; Gavirneni, Nagesh. "Using Scheduled Ordering to Improve the Performance of Distribution Supply Chains" Management Science. 5.9 (2010): 1615-1632
• Mehrotra, Mili; Dawande, Milind; Gavirneni, Nagesh; Demirci, Mehmet; Tayur, Sridhar. "OR PRACTICE—Production Planning with Patterns: A Problem from Processed Food Manufacturing" Operations Research. 59.2 (2011): 267-282
• Dawande, Milind; Gavirneni, Nagesh; Mehrotra, Mili; Mookerjee, Vijay. "Efficient Distribution of Water Between Head-Reach and Tail-End Farms in Developing Countries" Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 15.2 (2013): 221-238
• Shunko, Masha; Debo, Laurens; Gavirneni, Nagesh. "Transfer Pricing and Sourcing Strategies for Multinational Firms" Production and Operations Management. 23.12 (2014): 2043-2057
• Gavirneni, Nagesh; Kulkarni, Vidyadhar. "Self-Selecting Priority Queues with Burr Distributed Waiting Costs" Production and Operations Management. 25.6 (2016): 979–992

Awards and Honors

• M&SOM student paper competition (1996) M&SOM
• William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award (1998) Carnegie Mellon University
• Finalist (2016) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Best Paper Award
• Best Theory-Driven Empirical Paper Award (2017) Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference
• Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Industry Relevance Award (2017)

Recent Courses

• NCC 5080 - Managing Operations
• NBA 6500 - Semester in Strategic Operations - Practicum

Academic Degrees

• Ph D Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
• MSc Carnegie Mellon University, 1994
• MSc Iowa State University, 1993
• Btech. Indian Institute of Technology, 1989