PhD in Management Science, Operations Management Concentration

Feng, Zhichao, M. Dawande, G. Janakiraman, A. Qi. An Asymptotically Tight Learning Algorithm for Mobile-Promotion Platforms. Management Science, Accepted.

Manchiraju, Chandrasekhar, M Dawande, G Janakiraman, Multiproduct Pricing with Discrete Price Sets. Operations Research, Forthcoming.

Qu, Zihao, M. Dawande and G. Janakiraman. A Near-Optimal Algorithm for Real-Time Order Acceptance: An Application in Post-Acute Healthcare Services. Operations Research, Forthcoming.

Dawande, M., Feng, Zhichao, and Janakiraman, G., 2021. On the Structure of Bottlenecks in Processes. Management Science, 67(6): 3853–3870.

Gupta, Shivam, Bansal, S. 2021. Optimal Market Integration Decisions by Policy Makers: Modeling and Analysis of Agriculture Market Data. Operations Research, Forthcoming.

H. Farahani, Mehdi, Dawande, Milind, Gurnani, Haresh, Janakiraman, Ganesh. 2021. Better to Bend than to Break: Sharing Supply Risk Using the Supply-Flexibility Contract. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 23(5):1257-1274.

Gupta, Shivam, Wang, S., Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G., 2020. Procurement with Cost and Non-Cost Attributes: Cost-Sharing Mechanisms. Operations Research. Vol. 69, No. 5, September–October 2021, pp. 1349–1367.

Shan, Xi, Li, T., and Sethi, S. A responsive-pricing retailer sourcing from competing suppliers facing disruptions. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming..

Zhang, Wen, Pavlov, V., Katok, E. Optimal Contract Under Asymmetric Information About Fairness. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming..

Zhang, Wen, Chen, Q, Katok, E. Now or Later?: When to Deploy Qualification Screening in Open-Bid Auction for Re-Sourcing. Operations Research, Forthcoming..

Chen, Jiayu, Qi, A., Dawande, M., 2020. Supplier centrality and auditing priority in socially responsible supply chains. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 22, No. 6, November–December 2020, pp. 1199–1214.

Ozer, O., Bensoussan, A., Kadiyala, Bharadwaj, 2020. A mechanism design approach to vendor managed inventory. Management Science, Vol. 66, No. 6, June 2020, pp. 2628–2652.

Gao, L., Shi, Jim, J., Gorman, M.F., Luo, Ting, 2020. Business analytics for intermodal capacity management. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 22, No. 2, March–April 2020, pp. 310–329.

Guda, Harish, and Subramanian, U., 2019. Your uber is arriving: managing on-demand workers through surge pricing, forecast communication, and worker incentives. Management Science, Vol. 65, No. 5, May 2019, pp. 1995–2014.

Bo, Yang, Dawande, M., Huh, W.T., Janakiraman, G., Nagarajan, M., 2019. Determining process capacity: intractability and efficient special cases. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter 2019, pp. 139–153.

Dawande, M., Janakiraman, G., Bo, Yang, 2018. Technical note—Analysis of scrip systems: on an open question in johnson et. al (2014). Operations Research, Vol. 66, No. 3, May–June 2018, pp. 611–619.

Dawande, M., Bo, Yang, Janakiraman, G., McCormick, S.T. On integral policies in deterministic and stochastic distribution systems. Operations Research, Vol. 65, No. 3, May–June 2017, pp. 703–711.

Gao, L., Yang, N., Luo, Ting, Zhang, R. Dynamic supply risk management with signal-based forecast, multi-sourcing, and discretionary selling. Production and Operations Management, Vol. 26, No. 7, July 2017, pp. 1399–1415.

Petruzzi, N., Zhang, J., Li, Meng. Overconfident competing newsvendors. Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 8, August 2017, pp. 2637–2646.

Calculus, matrix algebra, computer programming and statistics are prerequisites for the doctoral program – every admitted student is responsible for ensuring he/she has satisfied these prerequisite requirements before joining the program.

Doctoral students in Management Science benefit from exposure to multiple functional areas in management. To ensure this benefit, students who enter the program without an MBA (or equivalent degree) are required to complete a combined minimum of four courses (at the master’s or doctoral level) in at least three functional areas. This cross-functional exposure is particularly useful for students engaging in cross-functional research, positioning their research for wider appeal and effectively teaching business school students with diverse specializations.

The Management Science PhD core curriculum consists of a minimum of 9 courses.

Please visit the Management Science Degree Plan page for core and secondary core course requirements.

Nine semester credit hours in any approved field.

Students are required to take a sequence of specific Operations Management courses. Students should consult with faculty members in their respective areas to decide on the sequence of courses.

Twelve semester credit hours of special topics and seminars in the operations management area.

Students are required to write original research papers in both their first and second summers. The second-year paper is presented in a seminar attended by faculty and other students and must be judged with a passing score by the faculty before the student can advance to candidacy.

Operations Management PhD students take a written preliminary exam at the end of their first year in the program over a set of core methodology courses (OPRE 7310 Probability & Stochastic Processes, OPRE 7311 Stochastic Models in Operations Research, OPRE 7320 Optimal Control Theory and Applications, OPRE 7353 Optimization). Students will take a qualifying exam (consisting of a completed research paper) at the end of their second year in the program (effective for students entering the program in Fall 2020 and beyond).

PhD students must successfully complete the preliminary and qualifying examinations, respectively, to enter PhD candidacy. The area faculty will determine whether a student has successfully completed the exam requirements based on the student’s performance. Criteria to evaluate students may include results from the in-class written portion of the exams, quality of research papers and/or presentations, performance in special courses (e.g., seminar courses), satisfactory GPA as determined by area faculty and other forms of assessment as required by the student’s area. An unsatisfactory performance in any one of the criteria for either the preliminary examination or the qualifying examination may result in dismissal from the program.

Once the student has passed the qualifying exam and paper requirements, work on the dissertation can commence. The dissertation is written under the direction of the dissertation committee. 12 to 24 semester hours may be granted for the dissertation toward the minimum 75-hour requirement for the degree. At a time mutually agreeable to the candidate and the dissertation committee, the candidate must orally defend the dissertation to the committee.

The Dissertation Proposal must be successfully defended at least one semester prior to the term of graduation. The requirements for the proposal defense should be discussed with the dissertation committee prior to scheduling the defense. Dissertation Proposal Defenses will be open to all faculty and PhD students of the Jindal School of Management.