Nagesh Gavirneni - in memoriam

Biography

Nagesh Gavirneni is a professor of operations management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research interests are in the areas of supply chain management, inventory control, production scheduling, simulation, and optimization. He is now using these models and methodologies to solve problems in healthcare, agriculture, and humanitarian logistics in developing countries. His papers have appeared in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research Letters, IIE Transactions, Interfaces, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Before that he was the chief algorithm design engineer of SmartOps, a software architect at Maxager Technology, Inc., and a research scientist with Schlumberger. He has also held visiting faculty positions at Nanyang Business School (Associate Professor, 2011-12) and MIT Sloan School of Management (Professor, 2016-17). His undergraduate degree from IIT-Madras is in mechanical engineering, and he has received master's degrees from Iowa State University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Selected Publications

• Yayla-Kulle, H. Muge; Palsule-Desai, Omkar; Gavirneni, Srinagesh. "Reining in Onion Prices by Introducing a Vertically Differentiated Substitute: Models, Analysis, and Insights"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 24.6 (2022): 3283-3305
• Mu, Liying; Hu, Bin; Reddy, A. Amarender; Gavirneni, Srinagesh. "Negotiating Government-to-Government Food Importing Contracts: A Nash Bargaining Framework"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 24.3 (2022): 1681-1697
• Palsule-Desai, Omkar; Vaze, Vikrant; Li, Gang; Gavirneni, Srinagesh. "Service Delivery Strategies for Alleviating Pandemic Suffering while Maintaining Profitability"Service Science. 13.4 (2021): 205-226
• Yuan, Xuchuan; Dai, Tinglong; Chen, Gongtao; Gavirneni, Srinagesh. "Co-opetition in Service Clusters with Waiting-Area Entertainment"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 23.1 (2021): 106-122
• Dawande, Milind; Gavirneni, Srinagesh; Mehrotra, Mili; Mookerjee, Vijay. "Efficient Distribution of Water Between Head-Reach and Tail-End Farms in Developing Countries"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 15.2 (2013): 221-238
• Zhao, Hui; Xiong, Chuanhui; Gavirneni, Srinagesh; Fein, Adam. "Fee-for-Service Contracts in Pharmaceutical Distribution Supply Chains: Design, Analysis, and Management"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 14.4 (2012): 685-699
• Gavirneni, Srinagesh; Kapuscinski, Roman; Tayur, Sridhar. "Value of Information in Capacitated Supply Chains"Management Science. 45.1 (1999): 16-24
• Gavirneni, Srinagesh. "Information Flows in Capacitated Supply Chains with Fixed Ordering Costs"Management Science. 48.5 (2002): 644-651
• Gavirneni, Srinagesh; Isen, Alice. "Anatomy of a Newsvendor Decision: Observations from a Verbal Protocol Analysis"Production and Operations Management. 19.4 (2010): 453-462
• Mankad, Shawn; Han, Hyunjeong; Goh, Joel; Gavirneni, Srinagesh. "Understanding Online Hotel Reviews Through Automated Text Analysis"Service Science. 8.2 (2016): 124-138

Awards and Honors

• M&SOM student paper competition (1996) M&SOM
• William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award (1998) Carnegie Mellon University
• Finalist (2016) Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Best Paper Award
• Best Theory-Driven Empirical Paper Award (2017) Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference
• Cornell Center for Hospitality Research Industry Relevance Award (2017)

Recent Courses

• NBA 6470 - Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling
• NBA 6430 - Managerial Spreadsheet Modeling

Academic Degrees

• PhD Carnegie Mellon University, 1997
• MS Carnegie Mellon University, 1994
• MS Iowa State University, 1993
• Btech Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1989