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Sunder Kekre

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Bosch Professor of Operations Management; Director, Center for Business Solutions

Education:
  • Indian Institute of Technology - B. Tech. - 1972
  • Xavier University - PGDBM - 1977
  • University of Rochester - M.S. - 1983
  • University of Rochester - Ph.D - 1984
Areas of Expertise:
  • Manufacturing & 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: 
  • 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, 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, 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, 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, 1997.
    (With: Srikant Datar, C. Jordan, S. Rajiv, Kannan Srinivasan)

  • Business Value of Information Technology: a Study of Electronic Data Interchange
    MIS Quarterly 19, 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, 1987; 165-175.
    (With: Sham Kekre, U. Karmarkar)

  • The Dynamic Lotsizing Problem with Start-up and Reservation Costs
    Operations Research 35, 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: 
Publications: 
  • "Costs of Product and Process Complexity"
    in R. Kaplan (ed.) Measures for Manufacturing Performance, (January, 1990).
    (With: R. BankerSrikant DatarTridas 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
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