Prashant Chintapalli

Dr. Prashant Chintapalli is an Assistant Professor in the Management Science area. He holds a PhD from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and prior to joining the Ivey Business School Prashant held a full-time appointment in the Production and Operations Management area at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.

Prashant’s research interests lie in analyzing operational issues faced by businesses and policymakers in emerging economies, with a special focus on food supply chains. The operational issues faced in such economies are often complicated with more stringent resource constraints and larger scale. Hence, it becomes imperative and relevant to design new policies and strategies that tackle these new challenges that occur in the context of emerging economies.

His current research is primarily on social responsibility issues in supply chains, with an objective to design policies and make decisions that can result in Pareto improvement of stakeholders involved. He develops stylized models to analyze the strategic interactions of various players in supply chains to draw managerial insights. Apart from social responsibility, Prashant’s research interests also span across broader topics like capacity & inventory management, sourcing, and pricing. He actively publishes in peer-reviewed journals like Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Annals of OR, and Naval Research Logistics. He is also a recipient of prestigious awards like the “Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award” (awarded by POMS).

Prashant’s teaching interests involve courses on supply chain and operational analytics, business analytics, financial analytics, operations and supply chain management, probability and stochastic processes, optimization and operations research, dynamic programming, and game theory.

Education PhD - UCLA Anderson School of Management MSc (Hons) Mathematics - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (Raj.), India BE (Hons) Computer Science - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (Raj.), India Recent Refereed Articles Chintapalli, P., 2023, "Optimal multi-period crop procurement and distribution policy with minimum support prices", Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, October 89: 101671 - 101671. Chintapalli, P.; Vakharia, A. J., 2023, "The waste management supply chain: A decision framework", Decision Sciences Chintapalli, P.; Tang, C. S., 2022, "The Implications of Crop Minimum Support Price in the Presence of Myopic and Strategic Farmers", European Journal of Operational Research Chintapalli, P.; Tang, C. S., 2022, "Crop Minimum Support Price versus Cost Subsidy: Farmer and Consumer Welfare", Production and Operations Management Chintapalli, P.; Tang, C., 2021, "The Value and Cost of Crop Minimum Support Price: Farmer and Consumer Welfare and Implementation Cost", Management Science, October 67(11): 6839 - 6861. Chintapalli, P., 2021, "Multi-Sourcing under Supply Uncertainty and Buyer’s Risk Aversion", EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, September 9: 100009 - 100009. Caro, F.; Chintapalli, P.; Rajaram, K.; Tang, C. S., 2018, "Improving supplier compliance through joint and shared audits with collective penalty", M&SOM-Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, March 20(2): 363 - 380. Chintapalli, P.; Disney, S. M.; Tang, C. S., 2017, "Coordinating Supply Chains via Advance-Order Discounts, Minimum Order Quantities, and Delegations", Production And Operations Management, December 26(12): 2175 - 2186. Chintapalli, P.; Hazra, J., 2016, "Stocking and quality decisions for deteriorating perishable products under competition", Journal Of The Operational Research Society, April 67(4): 593 - 603. Chintapalli, P., 2015, "Simultaneous pricing and inventory management of deteriorating perishable products", Annals Of Operations Research, June 229(1): 287 - 301. Chintapalli, P.; Hazra, J., 2015, "Pricing and inventory management during new product introduction when shortage creates hype", Naval Research Logistics, June 62(4): 304 - 320.