Sunder Kekre

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Bosch Professor of Operations Management

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Interdisciplinary issues that examine the interface between operations and areas such as marketing, accounting, information systems and engineering design. Has conducted field studies with Alcoa, Caterpillar, IBM, Ford, GM and Heinz on managerial issues spanning technology, strategy and processes. Recent research interests focus on time to market and new product development of technology, process, and people issues in net-centric enterprises.

Published Papers: 

• Strategic Analysis of Technology and Capacity Investments in the Liquefied Natural Gas Industry
  European Journal of Operational Research 226, 2013; 100-114.
  (with: Erkut Sonmez, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi)
  
  
• A Large U.S. Retailer Selects Transportation Carriers under Diesel Price Uncertainty
  Interfaces, 2012.
  (with: Soo-Haeng Cho, J. Turner, B. Peterson, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
  
  
• Valuation of Storage at a Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal
  Operations Research 59, 2011; 602-616.
  (with: Mulan Wang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nicola Secomandi)
  
  
• Balancing Risk and Efficiency at a Major Commercial Bank
  Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 11, 2009; 160-173.
  (with: Nicola Secomandi, Erkut Sonmez, Kenneth West)
  
  
• Assessing the Impact of RFID on Return Center Logistics
  Interfaces 37(6), 2007; 501-514.
  (with: Alan Scheller-Wolf, Nishtha Langer, Christopher Forman)
  
  
• Interdisciplinary and Interorganizational Research: Establishing the Science of Enterprise Networks
  Production and Operation Management, Winter 2005.
  (with: Charles Buhman, Jaya Singhal)
  
  
• The Impacts of Customization on Product and Process Performance
  Journal of Production and Operations Management Society, Winter 2005.
  (with: Vishwanath Hegde, Pandu Tadikamalla, S. Rajiv)
  
  
• Managing NPD: Cost and Schedule Performance
  Management Science, April 2004.
  (with: A. Bajaj, Kannan Srinivasan)
  
  
• Strategic and Operational Benefits of Electronic Integration in B2B Procurement Processes
  Management Science 48(10), 2002; 1301-1313.
  (with: Tridas Mukhopadhyay)
  
  
• Product Differentiation and Commonality in Design
  Management Science, January 2001.
  (with: Preyas Desai, S. Radhakrishnan, Kannan Srinivasan)
  
  
• An Empirical Analysis of Cost and Conformance Quality in Software Products
  Management Science 46(6), 2000; 745-759.
  (with: Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Mayuram S. Krishnan, Charles Kriebel)
  
  
• Advantages of Time Based New Product Development in a Fast Cycle Industry
  Journal of Marketing Research XXXIV, 1997.
  (with: Srikant Datar, C. Jordan, S. Rajiv, Kannan Srinivasan)
  
  
• New Product Development Structures and Time to Market
  Management Science 43(4), 1997.
  (with: Srikant Datar, C. Jordan, S. Rajiv, Kannan Srinivasan)
  
  
• Business Value of Information Technology: a Study of Electronic Data Interchange
  MIS Quarterly 19(2), 1995; 137-156.
  (with: Tridas Mukhopadhyay, S. Kalathu)
  
  
• Engineering Changes and Time Delays: A Field Investigation
  International Journal of Production Economics, 1992; 341-352.
  (with: Sham Kekre, G. Hedge)
  
  
• Multi-Item Batching Heuristics for Minimization of Queuing Delays
  European Journal of Operations Research, 1992; 99-111.
  (with: Sham Kekre, U. Karmarkar)
  
  
• Wider Product Line: Is it Necessary to Achieve Success?
  Management Science, 1990.
  (with: Kannan Srinivasan)
  
  
• Capacity Analysis of a Manufacturing Cell
  Journal of Manufacturing Systems 6(3), 1987; 165-175.
  (with: Sham Kekre, U. Karmarkar)
  
  
• The Dynamic Lotsizing Problem with Start-up and Reservation Costs
  Operations Research 35(3), June 1987; 389-398.
  (with: Sham Kekre, U. Karmarkar)
  
  
• Lotsizing in Multi-Item Multi-Machine Jobshops
  IIE Transactions, September 1985.
  (with: Sham Kekre, U. Karmarkar)
  
  
• Lot Sizing and Lead Time Performance in Manufacturing Cell
  Interfaces, 1985; 1-9.
  (with: Sham Kekre, U. Karmarkar, Scott Freeman)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• Optimal Energy Procurement in Spot and Forward Markets
  January, 2013.
  (with: Nicola Secomandi)
  
  
• Flexible Milk-Runs for Stochastic Vehicle Routing
  October, 2010.
  (with: B. Peterson, Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Laurens Debo)
  
  
• Ushering Buyers into Electronic Channels: An Empirical Analysis
  May, 2008.
  (with: Baohong Sun, Nishtha Langer, Christopher Forman)
  
  
• Channel Motivations in Emerging Market: An Empirical Analysis
  March, 2008.
  (with: Jian Ni, Laurens Debo, Baohong Sun)
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• Customization: Impact on Product and Process Performance
  November, 2005.
  (with: Vishwanath Hedge, S. Rajiv, Pandu Tadikamalla)
  
  
• Imitative Competition: Implications for Strategic Sourcing and Technology Transfer
  March, 2005.
  (with: Jiong Sun, Laurens Debo, Jinhong Xie)
  
  
• Tools for Long Term and Short Term Robust Capacity Planning
  July, 1999.
  (with: Uday Rao, Samarth Sarthi, Jinxin Yi)
  
  
• Product Differentiation and Commonality in Design: Balancing Revenue and Cost Revenue
  October, 1998.
  (with: Preyas Desai, Suresh Radahakrishnan, Kannan Srinivasan)
  
  
• Krishnan: TBA
  May, 1998.
  (with: Mayuram S. Krishnan, Charles Kriebel, Tridas Mukhopadhyay)
  
  
• Towards Integrated Value Chains: New Models of Business
  February, 1998.
  (with: Srikant Datar, Samarth Sarthi)
  
  
• Managing Variety in Software Features
  December, 1997.
  (with: Mayuram S. Krishnan)
  
  
• Cost, Quality and Customer Satisfaction of Software Products: A Field Study,.
  (with: Mayuram S. Krishnan, Charles Kriebel)
  
  
• An Empirical Analysis of Cost and Conformance Quality in Software Products.
  (with: Mayuram S. Krishnan, Charles Kriebel)
  
  

Publications: 

• "Costs of Product and Process Complexity"
  in R. Kaplan (ed.) Measures for Manufacturing Performance, (1990).
  (with: R. Banker, Srikant Datar, Tridas Mukhopadhyay)
  
  

Awards:

• Business Administration Undergraduate Teaching Award - 1999
• Best Paper Award, MIS Quarterly - 1995

Consulting:

• H. J. Heinz Company
• General Chemicals
• Caterpillar
• Chrysler
• Pricewaterhouse Coopers
• Equitable Resources

Courses Taught:

• Operations Management (45760)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2013, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2013, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2013, Mini 3 (Section: C)

• Operations Management (45765)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2011, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2011, Mini 2 (Section: B)
  • 2011, Mini 2 (Section: C)
  • 2011, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2011, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2011, Mini 3 (Section: C)
  • 2010, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2010, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2010, Mini 3 (Section: C)
  • 2009, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2009, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2009, Mini 3 (Section: C)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2007, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 3 (Section: B)
  • 2006, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2006, Mini 3 (Section: B)

• Managing the Enterprises of the Future Project (45834)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2011, Fall (Section: E)
  • 2011, Fall (Section: M)
  • 2010, Fall (Section: E)
  • 2009, Fall (Section: E)
  • 2009, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 1 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 6 (Section: M)
  • 2006, Mini 2 (Section: E)

• Managing the Enterprise of the Future Project (45837)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2008, Mini 2 (Section: E)
  • 2008, Mini 3 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 2 (Section: A)
  • 2007, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  • 2006, Mini 4 (Section: A)

• Strategic Management of the Enterprise (45991)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2012, Fall (Section: E)

• Doing Business In India (45993)
  (Masters Program)
  • 2009, Mini 4 (Section: A)
  • 2008, Mini 4 (Section: A)

• Introduction to Accounting (70122)
  (BSBA Program)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: Q)

• Production/Operations Management I (70371)
  (BSBA Program)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: Q)

• Logistics and Supply Chain Management (70471)
  (BSBA Program)
  • 2007, Fall (Section: Q)