Sridhar Tayur

Sridhar Tayur is the Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Madras (where he is a Distinguished Alumnus Award winner). He is an INFORMS Fellow, a Distinguished Fellow of MSOM Society and has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has been a visiting professor at Cornell, MIT and Stanford.

Academic:

He has published in Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Stochastic Models, Queuing Systems, Transportation Science, POMS, IIE Transactions, NRLQ, Journal of Algorithms and MSOM Journal. He has served on the editorial boards of Operations Research, MSOM Journal, Management Science, IIE Transactions and POMS. He served as President of MSOM Society. He has co-edited Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management (1998) and Handbook of Healthcare Analytics (2018). He has been a finalist for the Lanchester Prize and is an Edelman Laureate. He has won the Healthcare Best paper Award by POMS and the INFORMS Pierskalla Award for best paper in Healthcare. He has won the Gerald L. Thompson Teaching Award in the B.S. Business Administration Program, the George Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award given by MBA students, the INFORMS Teaching Case award, and has been named as a ‘Top Professor’ by Business Week.

Consulting and Executive Education:

He has consulted for startups (such as Massive Incorporated, acquired by Microsoft), several Fortune 500 companies – Intel, Deere, Caterpillar, ConAgra Foods for example – and has been a consultant to the firm of McKinsey & Company. He has conducted executive education for Cisco, McKinsey, Schibsted and others.

Software Entrepreneurship:

He is the founder (and served as CEO) of the software company SmartOps [acquired by SAP] which created the market for Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO) software. He has won the Carnegie Science Center award for Innovation in Information Technology. SmartOps is the subject of a Darden Case Study (distributed by HBS).

Healthcare:

He is the founder of a social enterprise, OrganJet, to help provide access to affordable multiple listing for kidney (and liver) transplants (and includes uardianWings program to assist those that are not insured). OrganJet and GuardianWings are subjects of a HBS Case Study. His work on Organ ransplantation has been covered by several medical publications and media outlets, including The New England Journal of Medicine, AJT, Forbes, The Guardian, CBS News, VICE, Huffington Post, ARS Technica as well as in an article profiling him in The Atlantic, has attracted the attention of several luminaries including Nobel winner Alvin Roth and garnered an invitation to the President Obama’s White House Summit on Organ Donation (in 2016).

Board Positions, Advisory Boards, Investor and Limited Partner (in PE and VC):

He served on the board of Orchestro (acquired by E2Open) and on the advisory boards of CCG Inc. (PE firm, where he was also a LP) and a not-for-profit, rueSpark, and on the Board of Overseers at WGBH. He currently serves on the advisory boards of MITRA Biotech, Zenrez (also an investor), Onera (also an nvestor), Neotribe Ventures (also a LP) and Vocal ID, on the Board of Directors of Transplant Interface and Heritage Valley Health System.

Philanthropy:

In 2014, he made a $1 Million donation to Carnegie Mellon University towards the “Tepper Quad” and in 2016 endowed an Institute Chair at IIT-Madras. He has been a donor to RIP Medical Debt, Smile Train, Children International, Plan International and Childreach, among others. He has funded early stage neuroscience research on rare genetic diseases. He has funded independent film festivals and documentaries, as well programs that combat human trafficking.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Healthcare Operations, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Analytics and Software, Private Equity and Lean Operations, Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises

PUBLICATIONS

• Integer and Constraint Programming for Batch Annealing Process Planning
  Proceedings of CP

(author(s): Willem-Jan Van Hoeve, Sridhar Tayur) Springer LNCS 10416, 2017; 431-439

• Imaging Room and Beyond: The Underlying Economics Behind Physicians’ Test-Ordering Behavior in Outpatient Services

(author(s): T. Dai, M. Akan, Sridhar Tayur) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

• Managing Rentals with Usage-Based Loss

(author(s): Vince Slaugh, Bahar Biller, Sridhar Tayur) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

• OrganJet: Overcoming Geographical Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidneys in the United States

(author(s): Baris Ata, Anton Skaro, Sridhar Tayur) Management Science

• Combating strategic counterfeiters in licit and illicit supply chains

(author(s): Soo-Haeng Cho, Xin Fang, Sridhar Tayur) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 17(3), 2015; 273-289

• Genotype Guided Therapeutic Dosing Of Warfarin In Geriatric Patients

(author(s): A Radhakrishnan, D Vido, Sridhar Tayur, Mustafa Akan, S Murali) Journal of the American College of Cardiology 59, 2012

• Improved Inventory Targets In The Presence Of Limited Historical Demand Data

(author(s): Alp Akcay, Bahar Biller, Sridhar Tayur) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2011

• Production Planning with Patterns

(author(s): Mili Meherotra, Milind Dawande, Srinagesh Gavirneni, Mehmet Demerci, Sridhar Tayur) Operations Research, 2011

• Scheduling of Dynamic in-game Advertisements

(author(s): John Turner, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur) Operations Research, 2011

• Building Efficient Product Portfolios at John Deere and Company

(author(s): Tally Yunes, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur) Operations Research, 2007

• Improving Asset Management and Order Fulfillment at Deere''s C&CE Division
  Interfaces

(author(s): Loren Troyer, James Smith, Sean Marshall, Elan Yaniv, Sridhar Tayur, Martin Barkman, Alev Kaya, Yong Liu) Interfaces, 2005

• Enterprise-Wide Optimization of Total Landed Cost at a Grocery Retailer

(author(s): Sridhar Tayur, Feryal Erhun) Operations Research, 2003

• Scheduling And Reliable Lead-Time Quotation For Orders With Availability Intervals And Lead-Time Sensitive Revenues

(author(s): P Keskinocak, R. Ravi, Sridhar Tayur) Management Science 47(2), 2001; 264-279

• A New Algebraic Geometry Algorithm for Integer Programming

(author(s): D. Bertsimas, G. Perakis, Sridhar Tayur) Management Science, 2000

• Improving Operations and Quoting Accurate Lead Times in a Laminate Plant

Interfaces, 2000

• Development of a Rapid-Response Supply Chain at Caterpillar

(author(s): U. Rao, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur) Operations Research, 2000

• Value of Information in Capacitated Supply Chains

(author(s): S. Gavirneni, R. Kapuscinski, Sridhar Tayur) Management Science, 1999

• Managing Broader Product Lines through Delayed Differentiation Using Vanilla Boxes

(author(s): J. Swaminathan, Sridhar Tayur) Management Science, 1998

• Sensitivity Analysis for Base-Stock Levels in Multi-Echelon Production-Inventory Systems

(author(s): P. Glasserman, Sridhar Tayur) Management Science, 1995

WORKING PAPERS

• A New Business Model for Online-to-Offline Commerce: From Competition to Cooperation

(author(s): Hui Li, Joseph Xu, Sridhar Tayur)

• Combating child labor: incentives and information disclosure in global supply chains

(author(s): Soo-Haeng Cho, Xin Fang, Sridhar Tayur, Ying Xu)

• Consistent Staffing for Long-Term Care through On-Call Pools

(author(s): Vince Slaugh, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)

• Towards an Equitable Allocation of Livers Among HCC and Non-HCC Patients

(author(s): Mustafa Akan, Zachary Leung, Sridhar Tayur, James Markmann, Heidi Yeh)

AWARDS AND HONORS

• MSOM Society - Distinguished Fellow (2017)
• Member, National Academy of Engineering (2017)
• Pierskalla Award (2015)
• POMS - Plenary (2015)
• Cornell University - Bangs Lecture (2014)
• UCLA - Marschak Lecture (2012)
• INFORMS - INFORMS Fellow (2012)
• POMS - First Prize, Best Paper Award Competition in Healthcare Operations (2012)
• MSOM - Plenary (2008)
• Carnegie Science Center - Award for Innovation in Information Technology (2007)
• INFORMS - Plenary (2007)
• INFORMS - Finalist, Franz Edelman Prize (2005)
• Ernst & Young - Finalist, Ernst & Young Entrepreneurship Award (2004)
• INFORMS - First Prize, Teaching Case Competition (2000)
• Tepper School of Business - George Leland Bach Award for MBA Teaching (2000)
• INFORMS - Finalist, Lanchester Prize (1997)
• Tepper School of Business - Undergraduate Teaching Award (1994)
• INFORMS - Honorable Mention, Nicholson Prize (1990)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Lave-Weil Prize, Chairperson (2012 - 2015)
• University Promotion Committee, Committee Member (2008 - 2010)

PUBLIC SERVICE

• NeoTribe Ventures, Advisory Board (2017 - )
• Mitra Biotech, Advisory Board (2016 - )
• Transplant Interface, Board of Directors (2016 - )
• VocalID, Advisory Board (2016 - )
• WGBH, Board of Overseers (2016 - )
• True Spark, Advisory Board (2015 - )
• Orchestro, Board of Directors (2015 - 2016)
• CCG, Inc., Advisory Board (2000 - 2009)

CONSULTING

• Charter Steel (2015 -)
• LMI (March 2012 - May 2012)
• ConAgra Foods (2008 - 2010)
• Microsoft (2007 - 2009)
• Caterpillar (2006 - 2009)
• Deere (2004 - 2008)
• Flight Options (1994 - 2004)
• McKinsey and Co. (1999 - 2001)
• General Electric (1992 - 1995)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Department Editor, POMS Journal (2015 -)
• Member, MSOM Journal, Editorial Board (January 2011 - December 2013)
• Committee Member, INFORMS, INFORMS Prize (October 2011 - March 2012)
• Associate Editor, Operations Research (January 1997 - 2010)
• Associate Editor, Management Science (January 1997 - 2002)
• President, MSOM (2000 - 2001)