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Ram D. Gopal is GE Capital Endowed Professor of Business and Head of the Department of Operations and Information Management. His current research interests are in the areas of business analytics, information security, privacy and valuation, intellectual property rights, online market design and business impacts of technology. His research has appeared in Decision Science, Management Science, Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems Research, Journal of Business, Journal of Law and Economics, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and other journals and conference proceedings. He serves on the editorial board of Information Systems Research, Journal of Database Management, Information Systems Frontiers, and Journal of Management Sciences.

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Location: Management Science Department, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina

Research Areas: Operations Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Decision making at the Functional Interface

Topics:

• CROSS-FUNCTIONAL INTERFACES
  • Marketing-Manufacturing Interface
  • Operations Management-Information Systems Interface
• INTERORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES
  • Collaborative Partnerships
• OPERATIONS/SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
  • Global Operations
  • Operations Strategy
  • Supplier Relationship Management

Methods:

• EMPIRICAL METHODS
  • Field studies
  • Structured interviewing
  • Survey research
• STATISTICAL METHODS
  • Cluster analysis
  • Factor analysis
  • Regression methods
  • Structural Equation Modeling

Manoj K. Malhotra is the Jeff B. Bates Professor in the Moore School of Business, and has served as the Chairman of the Management Science Department at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia since 2000. He is also the founding Director of the Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management (GSCPM), which was established at the Moore School of Business in 2005. He earned an engineering undergraduate degree from The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India in 1983, and a Ph.D. in operations management from The Ohio State University in 1990. Manoj has won several teaching awards, including the Michael J. Mungo Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in 2006 from the University of South Carolina and Alfred G. Smith Jr. Excellence in Teaching Award in 1995 from the Moore School of Business. His research has thematically focused on the deployment of flexible resources in manufacturing and service firms, and on the interface between operations and supply chain management and other functional areas of business. His work on these and related issues has been published in refereed journals such as Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Operations Management, OMEGA, and Production and Operations Management Journal. His research has been recognized through several discipline wide awards, including the University of South Carolina Educational Foundation Award for the Professional Schools in 2007, which is the University's most prestigious annual prize for innovative research, scholarship, and creative achievement. More recently, he received the Decision Sciences journal best paper award for the year 2011. Manoj is a Fellow of the American Production and Inventory Management Society (CFPIM), and a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI).

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KK Sinha is a Professor of Operations and Management Science and holds the Carlson Family Foundation Professorship at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His areas of research interests are: management of technology, supply chain management, quality management, and health care management. His current research projects span topics related to technology within organizations for the development, production, and delivery of physical and digital goods, and services; technology at the organizational boundaries – i.e., technology via which firms connect, coordinate, and collaborate with customers and trading partners in a supply chain; emerging form of work and work-designs in technology intensive operational settings, within and across organization and country boundaries; innovations and disruptions (e.g., recalls) in the health care supply chain; process and technology integration in the health care supply chain; and health care supply chain design for underserved communities in developing and developed countries. KK’s inquiries are motivated by contemporary, real world problems in the areas of his research interest. The inquiries are predominantly empirical, based on (primary and/or secondary, quantitative and/or qualitative) data from intra- and inter-organizational settings. The choice of research approach (e.g., deductive or inductive), research design (e.g., cross-sectional, longitudinal or experimental), and research method (e.g., econometrics, psychometrics, DEA, or case studies) are determined by the research question on hand. He conducts research with an interdisciplinary perspective, bringing to bear appropriate theories and methods from multiple disciplines to address the problems on hand. His research has been published in leading academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Decision Sciences, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Service Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Organization Science and Production and Operations Management. He is the recipient of several awards from professional societies in recognition of his scholarly contributions.

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Dr. Cheri Speier-Pero is a Professor of Information Systems at the Eli Broad School of Business, Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Indiana University. Prior to that she was a regional sales manager for information technology and data collection systems. She has published articles in a breadth of disciplines including journals such as MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Human and Computer Studies, Information and Management among others. Dr. Speier-Pero’s primary research interests include the influence of work environments on decision making, individual acceptance and use of technology, effective user training environments, and the effective use of information technology to support supply chain relationships. This work includes factors that can positively (e.g., visualization) or negatively (interruptions) influence decision and performance outcomes. The technology acceptance research has primarily focused on new system acceptance within organizational contexts and her publications include examples of successful and not so successful technology acceptance and use outcomes. Similarly, Dr. Speier-Pero has examined an array of interventions that can occur during the training process (e.g., the training/learning approach itself, environmental factors, etc.) to understand the influence of these factors on short and long-term learning outcomes. She is also studying the role of information technology and supply chain processes in supporting organizational and supply chain sustainability. Sustainability has become an increasingly visible strategic priority within organizations and Dr. Speier-Pero is working with colleagues across colleges and universities to develop a holistic approach to examining this issue. Dr. Speier-Pero has been a member of research teams receiving funding from the National Science Foundation (online learning) and the Department of Homeland Security (supply chain and information technology initiatives to protect the food supply). She has also received research grants from IBM and Dow Chemical to extend the Homeland Security grant into other industries.

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Research Areas: Cellular manufacturing, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Management, Supply Chain Design, production & Inventory Management

Topics: Cellular Manufacturing, Supplier Relationship Management, Supply Chain Design.

Methods: Survey Research, Mathematical Programming.

Dr. Nallan C. Suresh is UB Distinguished Professor & Chair, Department of Operations Management & Strategy at School of Management, State University of New York, Buffalo. Dr. Suresh specializes in manufacturing, supply chain & logistics management. Over the years, his research has been in five broad streams, including: 1) Economic evaluation of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) and robotics; 2) Design and performance evaluation of cellular manufacturing systems; 3) Design and Performance of virtual manufacturing cells, and 4) Design and performance of global manufacturing and sourcing networks; and, 5) Empirical research on strategic sourcing practices, cultivation of agility and other relevant issues in global supply chain management. He has published widely in leading research and professional journals, and has presented numerous papers at international conferences. His papers have appeared in journals such as: Management Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Production and Inventory Management, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Operations Management Review, and SME Technical Papers. His contributions include the co-edited book Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing: A State-of-the-Art Synthesis of Research and Practice, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston / Dordrecht / London. Dr. Suresh is particularly recognized for his contributions to cellular manufacturing, including the resolution of a long-standing paradox in this area through new analytical models. He is a recipient of: Alfred Bodine / Society of Manufacturing Engineers Award for Studies in Machine Tool Economics; Joseph T.J. Stewart Faculty Scholarship, and the Sustained Achievement Exceptional Scholar Award at SUNY, Buffalo.