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Karthik Ramachandran

Dunn Family Professor

Professor; Area Chair, Operations Management

karthik.ramachandran@scheller.gatech.edu

404-894-8631

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

Academic Areas: Operations Management

Office: 4423

Biography

Karthik Ramachandran is a Professor and Area Coordinator of Operations Management in Georgia Institute of Technology’s Scheller College of Business. His research focuses on the operational and organizational aspects of innovation related to product design and development, technology management, and operations strategy. His work uses analytical models, complemented by case-based, experimental, and empirical methods, to study operational issues that are critical in the successful commercialization of innovations.

Karthik's research has appeared journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), Production & Operations Management (POM), and IIE Transactions. His book chapters, case studies, and pedagogical material are available upon request. Karthik serves is a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management, and Associate Editor of Decision Sciences. At Georgia Tech, he teaches courses in New Product Development, Collaborative Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Karthik is passionate about entrepreneurship and he has mentored dozens of startups through the CREATE-X initiative at Georgia Tech.

Karthik obtained his Ph.D. in Supply Chain & Operations Management and M.S. in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin. He was also a Research Associate at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, he did his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai).

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

Research Areas

New Product Design and Development
Entrepreneurship
Operations Strategy
Behavioral Operations
Sustainability

Research

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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	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.
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.