Karthik Ramachandran Ph.D.

EDUCATION

• 2002-2007 McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Ph.D. Supply Chain and Operations Management Program. Dissertation: Managing Sequential Innovation: Product Design, Sourcing and Distribution Decisions
• 2000-2002 The University of Texas at Austin M.S. Operations Research.
• 1996-2000 Indian Institute of Technology; Madras, India Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering.

EXPERIENCE

• 2007- Cox School of Business; Southern Methodist University; Dallas, TX Assistant Professor, Information Technology & Operations Management
• 2005-2007 The Rady School of Management; University of California; San Diego Visiting Research Scholar
• 2001 Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI. Summer Intern, e-Development group, Lincoln-Mercury division.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• New Product Development (NPD): Product Design, Sequential Innovation, Risk in NPD, Entry Timing, Operational issues in NPD
• Operations Strategy: Process Investments and PD, Unique operations issues like Supply Uncertainty and Emergency Management

PUBLICATIONS

• Design Architecture and Introduction Timing for Rapidly Improving Industrial Products, with Vish Krishnan, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 10(1) 2008. Link
• Economic Models of Product Family Design and Development, with Vish Krishnan, in Loch, C.H. and Kavadias, S.: Handbook of New Product Development Management, 2007. Link

WORKING PAPERS

• A Dynamic Inventory Model with the Right of Refusal, with Sreekumar Bhaskaran and John Semple, March 2008 Link
• Design Inconsistency in Sequential Innovation, with Vish Krishnan, Revised October 2008
• Managing Development Risk in Competitive Environments, with Sreekumar Bhaskaran, Revised August 2008 Link
• Managing Technology Uncertainty During Product Rollovers, with Ankur Goel and Sreekumar Bhaskaran, September 2008
• Commercializing Component Innovations: The Roles of Firm Capabilities and Network Effects, with Sinan Erzurumlu and Steve Gilbert
• Distribution Channel Design to Manage Supply Disruptions, with Haresh Gurnani and Yusen Xia, Revised October 2008

PRESENTATIONS

• “Managing End-of-Life Inventory and Launch of New Products”, Product and Service Innovations Conference 2008, Salt Lake City, UT.
• “Sequential Innovation with Strategic Consumers and Suppliers”, INFORMS Annual Meeting Denver 2007, Seattle, WA.
• “Product Design for Rapidly Improving Industrial Goods”, invited talks at Indian School of Business, Southern Methodist University, Boston University.
• McGill University, University of North Carolina, Northwestern University and Singapore Management University.
• “Sourcing, Segmentation and Sequential Innovation”, Seventeenth Annual POMS Conference 2006, Boston, MA.
• “Technological Evolution and Launch Timing”, Seventeenth Annual POMS Conference 2006, Boston, MA.
• “Distribution-Channel Design to Manage Production Disruptions”, Seventeenth Annual POMS Conference 2006, Boston, MA.
• “Product Design and Sourcing for Sequential Innovations”, Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management 2005, Pondicherry, India. Winner of the Best Student Paper Award.
• “A Product Architecture-Based Solution to Rapid Sequential Innovation“, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2004, Denver, CO.
• “Modular Upgradability and Rapid Sequential Innovation”, M&SOM Conference 2004, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
• “A Product-Architecture Based Approach for Alleviating Consumer Regret in Rapid Sequential Innovation”, SCOM Seminar 2004, McCombs School of Business, Austin, TX.
• “Modular Design and Sequential Product Introduction”, INFORMS Annual Meeting Atlanta 2003, Atlanta, GA.