Ananth Iyer

Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management and
Director, DCMME and GSCMI

Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987

Professor Iyer was named Purdue University Faculty Scholar in 1999. His teaching and research interests are operations management and logistics. Professor Iyer’s research currently focuses on analysis of the impact of promotions on logistics systems in the grocery industry, and analysis of the impact of competitors on operational management models.

Tom Brush

Ph.D., Economics and Business Administration,
University of Michigan, 1990

Professor Brush teaches courses in strategic management and manufacturing strategy. His research interests in the area of manufacturing strategy include the management of international plant networks, plant location for multinational firms, supplier relationships, and the transfer of capabilities such as flow manufacturing within firms.

Suresh Chand

Ph.D., Industrial Administration,
Carnegie Mellon

Professor Chand teaches operations management. His current research interests are in the areas of production lot sizing and scheduling for multiperiod production inventory problems with varying demand forecasts. Professor Chand has been with Krannert since 1979. He is currently associate editor for Management Science, area editor for Production and Operations Management, and senior editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

Vinayak Deshpande

Ph.D., Operations Management,
Wharton School, 2000

Professor Deshpande teaches operations management. His research interests are in the areas of supply chain coordination, service parts management, and contingency logistics systems. His other topics of study include military applications and inventory models.

Joice Hu

Ph.D., Operations, Case Western
Reserve University, 2006

Professor Hu joined the Krannert faculty in 2006. Her research interests are supply chain management, service operations management, coordination of operations with finance, and operations management applications of the economics of industrial organizations.

Greg Hundley

Professor of Management
Ph.D., Industrial Relations,
University of Minnesota, 1981

Professor Hundley’s interests include human resource management, compensation and reward, international human resource management, and entrepreneurship. His current areas of research include strategic human resource management, self employment, and international compensation.

David Hummels

Ph.D., Economics,
University of Michigan, 1995

Professor Hummels’ teaching interest is in international economics. His research focuses on empirical investigations in international trade, with a special emphasis on product differentiation, barriers to trade, and the effects of transportation and infrastructure on trade and economic development. His most recent work, funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on the effect of disruptions to international commerce, such as those caused by the 9/11 attacks, and the West Coast port lockout.

Karthik Kannan

Ph.D., Information Systems,
Carnegie Mellon University, 2003

Professor Kannan’s teaching interests include database management, electronic commerce and telecommunication. His current research focuses on markets and pricing of information goods/services, and economics of information security.

Aldas Kriauciunas

Ph.D., Corporate Strategy and International Business, University of Michigan, 2004

Professor Kriauciunas teaches international strategy and strategic management, organizing the classroom more like a meeting than a lecture. His research focuses on understanding factors impeding and assisting firm-level change.

Yanjun Li

Ph.D., Operations Research,
Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

Professor Li’s teaching interests include management science, statistics, production, optimization models, and algorithms. His current research includes discrete optimization and application, approximation algorithms, network and graph, location and distribution, vehicle routing, lot sizing and scheduling, inventory and supply chain management, and financial optimization.

Raghu Rau

Ph.D., Management, INSEAD, 1997

Professor Rau’s primary teaching interest is corporate finance, both theoretical and empirical. His current research areas are in the fields of empirical corporate finance and the economics of information. His focus in information economics is centered on the acquisition and utilization of information by participants in a market framework. In the area of empirical corporate finance, he is investigating the market reactions to corporate events such as mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Jackie Rees

Ph.D.,Industrial Engineering, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001

Professor Rees’ teaching interests include principles of MIS, database management systems, data mining, decision support systems and information security. Her current research interests include genetic algorithms and machine learning, information security, and complex systems.

Byung Ro

Ph.D., Accounting, Michigan
State University, 1976; M.B.A.,
Accounting, University of California; M.A.,
Business Administration, Seoul
National University B.A., Business
Administration, Yeungnam University

Professor Ro teaches financial accounting. His current research interests include the information content of accounting data with respect to the capital market variables, accounting method change/choice, managerial compensation, corporate restructuring, fair value accounting, and firm valuation.

J George Shanthikumar

Ph.D.,Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 1979

Professor Shanthikumar's research interests include Production System Modeling & Analysis, Queueing Theory & Applications, Reliability & Probability Theory, Scheduling & Sequencing, Simulation Methodology, and Stochastic Processes & Modeling.

Mohit Tawarmalani

Ph.D.,Industrial Engineering, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2001

Professor Tawarmalani’s teaching interests are deterministic and stochastic operations research, logistics, production planning, engineering economics, statistics, and decision analysis. His research interests include mathematical programming, complexity and approximation, and symbolic computing.

Jim Ward

Ph.D., Operations Research,
Carnegie Mellon University, 1980

Professor Ward’s primary teaching interests are logistics and capacity planning systems. His current research interests include inventorydistribution system design, location models, and interactive computing.