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Karthik Ramachandran

Hal and John Smith Chair in Small Business and Entrepreneurship

karthik.ramachandran@scheller.gatech.edu

404-894-8631

https://sites.gatech.edu/karthikr/

Academic Areas: Operations Management

Building: Scheller College of Business

Office: 4423

Biography

Karthik Ramachandran is the Hal and John Smith Chair in Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business. His research explores the operational and organizational drivers of entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on product design, technology management, and operations strategy. He develops analytical models, complemented by case-based, experimental, and empirical methods, to study how firms successfully commercialize innovations.

His work has been published in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, and the Journal of Operations Management. He serves as Departmental Editor for Production and Operations Management (Management of Technology), and Associate Editor for Management Science and Decision Sciences. At Georgia Tech, he teaches courses in New Product Development, Collaborative Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, and mentors startups through the CREATE-X initiative.

Karthik holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain & Operations Management and an M.S. in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Education

Ph.D. Operations Management, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
M.S. Operations Research, University of Texas at Austin
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Teaching Interests

The Scheller College of Business is positioned at the intersection of business and technology and is dedicated to education, research, and innovation that advances business and improves the human condition.

Research Interests

New Product Design and Development
Entrepreneurship
Operations Strategy
Behavioral Operations
Sustainability

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Year	Title	Journal	Author(s)	Type
2024	Advising Entrepreneurs: Optimal Recommendation of Alternatives	Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	Wang, Z. Rahmani, M. Ramachandran, K.	Published Papers	View
Wang, Zeya and Rahmani, Morvarid and Ramachandran, Karthik, Advising Entrepreneurs: Optimal Recommendation of Alternatives (October 6, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3938377 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3938377
2021	Delegating Innovation Projects with Deadline: Committed versus Flexible Stopping	Management Science	Rahmani, M. Ramachandran, K.	Published Papers	View
Rahmani, M., K. Ramachandran. 2021. Delegating Innovation Projects with Deadline: Committed versus Flexible Stopping. Management Science, 67(10), 6317-6332.
2020	The Impact of Scalability on Advisory and Service Delivery Efforts of Nonprofits	Advances in Service Science	Arora, P. Rahmani, M. Ramachandran, K.	Published Papers	View
Arora, P., M., Rahmani, and K. Ramachandran. 2020. The Impact of Scalability on Advisory and Service Delivery Efforts of Nonprofits. Advances in Service Science. INFORMS-CSS 2020, 205-213.
2020	Doing Less to Do More? Optimal Service Portfolio of Non-profits that Serve Distressed Individuals	Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	Arora, P. Rahmani, M. Ramachandran, K.	Published Papers	View
Arora, P., M. Rahmani, and K. Ramachandran, 2020, Doing Less to Do More? Optimal Service Portfolio of Non-profits that Serve Distressed Individuals. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, forthcoming
2017	Towards Building Multidisciplinary Knowledge of Management of Technology: An Introduction to the Special Issue	Production and Operations Management	Gaimon, Cheryl Hora, Manpreet Ramachandran, Karthik	Published Papers
Gaimon, Cheryl, Manpreet Hora, Karthik Ramachandran, “Towards Building Multidisciplinary Knowledge of Management of Technology: An Introduction to the Special Issue,” Production and Operations Management, Special Issue on Management of Technology, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017, 567-578.
2017	Process Capabilities and Leveraging Advances in Science and Technology	Routledge Companion to Prod & Opns. Manag.	Gaimon, Cheryl Hora, Manpreet Ramachandran, Karthik	Published Papers
Gaimon, Cheryl, Manpreet Hora, Karthik Ramachandran, “Process Capabilities and Leveraging Advances in Science and Technology,” Routledge Companion to Prod & Opns. Manag., edited by M.K. Starr and S.K. Gupta, Taylor & Francis Group, NY, 2017, 197-213
2017	Towards Building Multidisciplinary Knowledge on Management of Technology: An Introduction to the Special Issue	Production and Operations Management	Gaimon, C. Hora, M. Ramachandran, K.	Published Papers
Gaimon, C., Hora, M. and Ramachandran, K., 2017. “Towards Building Multidisciplinary Knowledge on Management of Technology: An Introduction to the Special Issue”, Production and Operations Management, 26 (4) 567-578.

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Journal Editorial Roles

Associate Editor: Management Science; Decision Sciences Journal
Senior Editor, Production & Operations Management

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Morvarid Rahmani and Karthik Ramachandran Publish Op-ed on How Nonprofits Can Maximize Impact With Limited Budgets

2019

How Can Nonprofit Organizations Maximize Social Impact for Distressed Individuals?

2017

Engaging Scheller College of Business in Creating Sustainable Communities

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