Priyank Arora
Assistant Professor Operations & Information Management at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Assistant Professor, at Darla Moore School of Business
Schools
- Darla Moore School of Business
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Biography
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Education
PhD in Operations Management, Scheller College of Business , Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018 Post-Graduate Program in Management (equivalent to MBA), Indian School of Business, 2012 Bachelor of Engineering, University of Delhi, 2007
Research Interests
- Socially Responsible Operations
- Sustainable Operations
- Nonprofit Operations
- Healthcare Operations
Teaching Interests
- Operations Management
- Service Operations
Recent Honors & Awards
- Ashford Watson Stalnaker Memorial Prize, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017
- Best Paper Award, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR), 2016
- Public Service Endowment Grant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
- Research Excellence Award, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020
Selected Publications
- Arora, P., M. Hora, V. R. Singhal, and R. Subramanian (2020). When do Appointments of Corporate Sustainability Executives Affect Shareholder Value? Journal of Operations Management 66 (4), 464-487
- Arora, P. and R. Subramanian (2019). Improving Societal Outcomes in the Organ Donation Value Chain. Production and Operations Management 28 (8), 2110-2131
- Devalkar, S. K., M. G. Sohoni, and P. Arora (2017). Ex-post Funding: How Should a Resource-Constrained Non-profit Organization Allocate its Initial Funds? Production and Operations Management 26 (6), 1035-1055
Darla Moore School of Business
Background
Priyank Arora is an assistant professor of management science at the Moore School. Priyank is interested in advancing the understanding of operational decision-making within and across organizations that are motivated by social and environmental considerations (such as, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals). Currently, Priyank’s research on socially responsible operations is defined around two streams: nonprofit operations and sustainability. His research has strong underpinnings in interactions with nonprofits (e.g., those empowering domestic violence survivors and homeless individuals), government organizations (e.g., those administering organ transplantation and child care subsidy programs), and social enterprises (e.g., farm equipment sharing platforms in emerging economies). His research has been published in journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Journal of Operations Management.
Previously, Priyank was an assistant professor of operations management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Priyank holds a PhD in business administration from Georgia Institute of Technology, a post-graduate certificate in management (equivalent to an MBA) from the Indian School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Delhi. Prior to an academic career, he worked as a senior software engineer at Samsung Electronics.
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