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KANNAN SETHURAMAN
Associate Professor,
Technology and Operations Management

 
  E D U C A T I O N A L   B A C K G R O U N D

 

  • Ph.D., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

  • A.M., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

  • P.G.D.M., Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India.

  • B.Tech.(Honours), Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India.

. A P P O I N T M E N T S

  • Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne

    • Associate Professor, August 2001 -present

  • Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

    • Associate Professor, August 1998 - June 2001

  • University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, USA

    • Assistant Professor, 1993-1998

    • Lecturer, 1992-93

. S C H O L A R L Y   H O N O R S  A N D   A W A R D S

  • Nominated for the best young faculty award given by the All India Association of Management Schools, 1999, 2000

  • BBA Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Michigan Business School, 1996

  • POMS Dissertation Competition, Runner-up, 1995

  • ARCO Chemical Company Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-92

  • ORSA Doctoral Colloquium Fellow, 1990

  • First Prize Winner, SYSCON Student Paper Competition, George Mason University, 1989

. S E L E C T E D    P U B L I C A T I O N S

"Locus of supply and global manufacturing", (with Dr. John Ettlie), International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vo. 22, No. 3, 2002.

"A Metric for evaluating design commonality in product families", (with Dr. Sridhar Kota and Raymond Miller), ASME Journal of Mechanical Design , Volume 122, Issue 4, pp 403-410, 2000

"Lucas-TVS Ltd.: A Journey towards Manufacturing Excellence", (with Dr. Devanath Tirupati), Vikalpa, The Journal for Decision Makers, , Volume 25, No. 2, 2000

"Congestion and Complexity Costs in a Plant with Fixed Resources that Strives to Make Schedule," (co-authored with William S. Lovejoy), INFORMS Journal of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, November, Volume 2.3, 2000.

"A Descriptive Multi-Attribute Model for Reconfigurable Machining System Selection that Examines Buyer-Supplier Relationships," (co-authored with Professors Chelsea White, Tava Olsen, Steve Chick and Kathy Stecke), accepted for publication at the International Journal of Agile Management Systems, August, 1999.

" Managing Variety in Product Families through Design for Commonality," Refereed Conference Proceedings of DETC ’98, 1998 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September, 13-16, 1998 (coauthored with Dr. Sridhar Kota).

"A Decision Support Model to select Appropriate Reconfigurable or other Machining Systems that considers Buyer-Supplier Relationship," Refereed Proceedings of the 1998 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation (International Conference on New Technological Innovation for 21st Century), July 12-15, 1998 (co-authored with Professors Chelsea White, Tava Olsen, Steve Chick and Kathy Stecke).

Some Operational Origins of the Cost of Complexity with Fixed Assets, Refereed Conference Proceedings of the MSOM Conference held at the Amos Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, June, 1996. (with Dr. William S. Lovejoy)

"Product Variety and Manufacturing Performance : Evidence from the International Automotive Assembly Plant Study," Management Science, March 1996. (co-authored with Dr. John Paul MacDuffie and Dr. Marshall Fisher).

. C U R R E N T   R E S E A R C H   A C T I V I T Y

  • Product proliferation and its costs and benefits

  • Costs of product and process complexity

  • Manufacturing/marketing interfaces

  • New product development

  • Implementation of lean manufacturing practice

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