Assistant Professor of Management Sciences Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University
Aravind Chandrasekaran’s research investigates innovation and knowledge creation issues in high-technology R&D settings. He focuses particular attention on understanding how organizations manage the productivity dilemma and minimize tensions between competing learning mechanisms, such as exploration and exploitation. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and International Journal of Production Research. Chandrasekaran teaches the MBA core Operations Management course for the Working Professionals. He serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Operations Management and Production and Operations Management and is an ad-hoc reviewer for these journals and others. Chandrasekaran was awarded the 2010 Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Juran Fellowship from the Juran Center at the University of Minnesota, and his dissertation was supported by the Carlson School Dissertation Fellowship. He received his PhD in Operations and Management Sciences from the University of Minnesota.