Karthik Ramachandran

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1 Karthik Ramachandran Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology 800, West Peachtree St , Atlanta, GA. Phone: Web: I. EARNED DEGREES 2007 McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Ph.D. Supply Chain and Operations Management Program. Dissertation: Managing Sequential Innovation: Product Design, Sourcing and Distribution Decisions 2002 The University of Texas at Austin M.S. Operations Research Indian Institute of Technology; Madras, India Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering. II. EMPLOYMENT 2012 Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, GA Assistant Professor, Operations Management Cox School of Business; Southern Methodist University; Dallas, TX Assistant Professor, Information Technology & Operations Management The Rady School of Management; University of California; San Diego Visiting Research Scholar 2001 Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI. Summer Intern, e-development group, Lincoln-Mercury division. III. TEACHING A. INDIVIDUAL STUDENT GUIDANCE A.1 PhD Students 1. Narendra Singh (Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, PhD in progress). 2. Nah Lee (Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, PhD in progress). A.2 Masters Students

2 3. Gretchen Otano: MS Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Independent Study on Project Management in Medical Device Development. 4. Srijit Sivaraman: MBA Student at Southern Methodist University; Independent Study on Product Introduction Strategy at Pet Products Inc. 5. Chris Goodman & Garrett Moran: MBA Student at Southern Methodist University; Independent Study on Predicting Demand for Aircraft Service Training. 6. Natesh Kumar: MBA Student at Southern Methodist University; Independent Study on Testing the Effects of Procrastination on Student Performance. 7. Mike Martin: MBA Student at Southern Methodist University; Independent Study on Forecasting and Planning for Seasonal Demand Lift. B. OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES B.1 Courses at Georgia Institute of Technology ( ) 1. MBA Elective: Collaborative Product Development Evaluations: MGT 6326: 4.86 (Spring 2013), MBA 6326: 4.00 (Spring 2013) 2. Undergraduate Elective: Managing Product and Service Development Evaluations: MGT 3744: 4.79 (Spring 2013), ME 3744: 4.00 (Spring 2013) B.2 Courses at Southern Methodist University ( ) 1. MBA Elective (out of 7.0): Operations Strategy Evaluations: 6.00 (Fall 2012), 6.35 (Fall 2011), 6.36 (Fall 2010), 6.82 (Spring 2010), 6.34 (Spring 2009), 5.28 (Summer 2008) 2. MBA Core: Operations Management Evaluations: 6.06 (Fall 2012), 5.95 (Fall 2010), 5.79 (Summer 2010), 5.78 (Summer 2009), 6.32 (Summer 2008) 3. Undergraduate Core: Operations Management Evaluations: 6.36 (Fall 2011), 6.34 (Fall 2010) B.3 Courses at The University of Texas at Austin (2005) 1. Undergraduate Core (out of 5.0): Operations Management Evaluations: 4.00 (Spring 2005) B.4 Pedagogical Material Development 1. Innovation-Driven Growth at Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (2009), Case study with Vish V. Krishnan and Steven J. Prestrelski. 2. Project Management in the Knowledge Economy (2006), Introductory teaching note for Project Management with Vish V. Krishnan.

3 IV. SCHOLARLY ACCOMPLISHMENTS A. PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Krishnan, Vish V. and Karthik Ramachandran, Economic Models of Product Family-Based Design and Development, in Managing New Product Development: A Framework (2008). Editors: Christoph H. Loch and Stylianos Kavadias. B. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS B.1 Published and Accepted Articles 1. Haresh Gurnani, Karthik Ramachandran, Saibal Ray and Yusen Xia, Ordering Behavior under Supply Risk: An Experimental Investigation, forthcoming in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 2. Yaozhong Wu, Karthik Ramachandran and Vish V. Krishnan, Managing Cost Salience and Procrastination in Projects: Compensation and Team Composition, forthcoming in Production & Operations Management. 3. Vish V. Krishnan and Karthik Ramachandran (2011), Integrated Product Architecture and Pricing for Managing Sequential Innovation, Management Science 57 (11), Sreekumar R. Bhaskaran and Karthik Ramachandran (2011), Managing Technology Selection and Development Risk in Competitive Environments, Production & Operations Management 20 (4), Yusen Xia, Karthik Ramachandran and Haresh Gurnani (2011), Sharing Demand and Supply Risk in a Supply Chain, IIE Transactions 43 (6), Sinan Erzurumlu, Stephen M. Gilbert and Karthik Ramachandran (2010), To Share or To Compete: Managing Revenue Streams for Innovations in Markets with Network Effects, Technology & Operations Management 1 (2), Sreekumar R. Bhaskaran, Karthik Ramachandran and John Semple (2010), A Dynamic Inventory Model with the Right of Refusal, Management Science 56 (12), Ramachandran, Karthik and Vish V. Krishnan (2008). Design Architecture and Introduction Timing for Rapidly Improving Industrial Products, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 10 (1), B.2 Submitted Journal Articles and Working Papers 9. Sreekumar R. Bhaskaran, Ankur Goel and Karthik Ramachandran, Sequential Innovation under Development Uncertainty, under revision for resubmission to Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 10. Sreekumar R. Bhaskaran, Sinan Erzurumlu and Karthik Ramachandran, Sequential Innovation by Start-ups, under review at Operations Research.

4 11. Aydin Alptekinoglu and Karthik Ramachandran, Flexible Products for Dynamic Preferences, under revision, Sreekumar R. Bhaskaran, Priyali Rajagopal and Karthik Ramachandran, Quality Consciousness, Perceived Quality and Product Design, Karthik Ramachandran, Channel Selection for Novel Products, B.3 Work in Progress 14. Karthik Ramachandran, Vish Krishnan and Yaozhong Wu, Consequences and Control of Present-Bias and Effort Distortion, Saurabh Bansal and Karthik Ramachandran, Your Mileage May Vary: Designing Graded Product Lines, Narendra Singh, Ravi Subramanian and Karthik Ramachandran, Refurbished Products from Commercial Returns, Karthik Ramachandran and Yusen Xia, Multi-Dimensional Decision Making in Operations: An Experimental Investigation of Joint Pricing and Quantity Decisions, Karthik Ramachandran and Necati Tereyagoglu, New Product Introduction with Conspicuous Consumption, C. PRESENTATIONS C.1 Invited Talks 1. Flexible Products for Dynamic Preferences, invited talk at Pennsylvania State University (2012). 2. Flexible Products for Dynamic Needs, invited talks at Georgia Institute of Technology (2012). 3. Democratic Innovation in Business Models, invited talk at SRM University, Chennai, India (2012). 4. A Dynamic Inventory Model with the Right of Refusal, invited talk at National University of Singapore (2009). 5. A Dynamic Inventory Model with the Right of Refusal, invited talk at University of California San Diego (2008). 6. Product Design for Rapidly Improving Industrial Goods, invited talks at Indian School of Business, Southern Methodist University, Boston University, McGill University, University of North Carolina, Northwestern University and Singapore Management University (2007).

5 7. A Product-Architecture Based Approach for Alleviating Consumer Regret in Rapid Sequential Innovation, SCOM Seminar 2004, McCombs School of Business, Austin, TX. C.2 Conference Presentations 8. Ordering Behavior under Supply Risk: An Experimental Investigation, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012, Phoenix, AZ. 9. Quality Consciousness, Perceived Value and Product Design, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2012, Phoenix, AZ. 10. Distribution of Novel Products, POMS Annual Conference 2012, Chicago, IL. 11. Flexible Products for Dynamic Needs, Product and Service Innovations Conference 2012, Salt Lake City, UT. 12. Introduction of Innovations by Start-up Firms, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2011, Charlotte, NC. 13. Managing Product Transition under Technology Uncertainty, POMS Annual Conference 2011, Reno, NV. 14. An Experimental Study of Optimal Ordering Behavior with Risk of Supply Disruption, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2010, Austin, TX. 15. A Dynamic Inventory Model with the Right of Refusal, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2009, San Diego, CA. 16. Managing End-of-Life Inventory and Launch of New Products, Product and Service Innovations Conference 2008, Salt Lake City, UT. 17. Sequential Innovation with Strategic Consumers and Suppliers, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2007, Seattle, WA. 18. Sourcing, Segmentation and Sequential Innovation, Seventeenth Annual POMS Conference 2006, Boston, MA. 19. Technological Evolution and Launch Timing, Seventeenth Annual POMS Conference 2006, Boston, MA. 20. Distribution-Channel Design to Manage Production Disruptions, Seventeenth Annual POMS Conference 2006, Boston, MA. 21. Product Design and Sourcing for Sequential Innovations, Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management 2005, Pondicherry, India. Winner of the Best Student Paper Award. 22. A Product Architecture-Based Solution to Rapid Sequential Innovation, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2004, Denver, CO. 23. Modular Upgradability and Rapid Sequential Innovation, M&SOM Conference 2004, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

6 24. Modular Design and Sequential Product Introduction, INFORMS Annual Meeting Atlanta 2003, Atlanta, GA. V. SERVICE A. PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS 1. Editorial Board Member: Production & Operations Management, 2011 present. 2. Reviewer: Management Science, Marketing Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Decision Sciences. 3. Track Chair, Production Innovation and Technology Management, Production and Operations Management Conference, Chicago, Invited Cluster Chair: New Product Development cluster, Informs Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Track Chair, Production Innovation and Technology Management, Production and Operations Management Conference, Atlanta, Judge: INFORMS Poster Competition, San Diego, B. OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS 7. Design and Technology Development: Developing a nutrition scale for diabetics in collaboration with an Atlanta-based pediatric endocrinologist. 8. Advisement of Student Group: Advised Georgia Tech student group Opti-Lawn, which won the Georgia Product Development Management Association s Best Graduate Paper award for Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University: Member of the Undergraduate Policy Committee ( ). VI. GRANTS 1. Educational Tool for Simulation of a Distribution Supply Chain. Provost Instructional Technology Grant, Southern Methodist University. Term: Spring Amount: $3, Multi-Dimensional Decision Making in Operations, application as Co-Principal Investigator, under review at National Science Foundation. VII. HONORS AND AWARDS 1. Thank a Teacher Certificates, all classes in Spring 2013.

7 2. Best Teaching Assistant Award, Rady School of Business, UCSD, Robert s Fellowship, Management Department, McCombs School of Business,