Sunder Kekre
Professor of Operations Management and Manufacturing and Director, Center for E-Business Innovation

B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, 1972;
PGDBM, Xavier University, 1977;
M.S., University of Rochester, 1983;
Ph.D., 1984;

E-mail: sk0a@andrew.cmu.edu

Personal/Course Home Page: http://www.gsia.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/findpage?sk0a

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 Caterpillar, IBM, Ford, GM and Heinz on managerial issues spanning technology, strategy and processes. Recent research interests focus on e-commerce implementation at the Center for e-Business Innovation founded by Pricewaterhouse Coopers at Carnegie Mellon.

Major publications/papers:

"Strategic and Operational Benefits of Electronic Integration in B2B Procurement Processes," with T. Mukhopadhyay, Management Science, forthcoming;

"Product Differentiation and Commonality in Design," with P. Desai, S. Radhakrishnan and K. Srinivasan, Special Issue on Design and Development, Management Science, January 2001;

"An Empirical Analysis of Productivity and Quality in Software Products," with M.S. Krishnan, C.H. Kriebel and T. Mukhopadhyay, Management Science, 2000;

"New Product Development Structures and Time to Market," with S. Datar, C. Jordan, S. Rajiv and K. Srinivasan, in Special Issue on Frontier Research in Manufacturing, Management Science, Vol. 43, No. 4, 1997;

"Advantages of Time Based New Product Development in a Fast Cycle Industry," with S. Datar, C. Jordan, S. Rajiv and K. Srinivasan, Special Issue on Best Practices in Research, Modeling and Applications, Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. XXXIV, 1997;

"Business Value of Information Technology: a Study of Electronic Data Interchange," with T. Mukhopadhyay and S. Kalathu, MIS Quarterly, 1995;

"Wider Product Line: Is it Necessary to Achieve Success?," with K. Srinivasan, Management Science, 1990;

"Costs of Product and Process Complexity," with R. Banker, S. Datar and T. Mukhopadhyay, Measures for Manufacturing Performance, edited by R. Kaplan, 1990

Awards/Honors:

• Business Administration Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1999
• Best Paper Award, MIS Quarterly, 1995

Consulting:

• H. J. Heinz Company
• General Chemicals
• Caterpillar
• Chrysler
• Pricewaterhouse Coopers