Dr. Aravind Chandrasekaran is an Associate Professor in Management Sciences at the Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. He received his PhD in Operations and Management Sciences from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Chandrasekaran’s research investigates innovation and knowledge creation issues in a variety of areas including high-tech R&D, manufacturing and health-care delivery. His work has been published or forthcoming in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management and Harvard Business Review.

Dr. Chandrasekaran currently teaches the MBA core class on operations management for the full-time and Working Professionals and an elective on Innovation. He was awarded the 2013 Carol J. Latta Emerging Leadership Award for Outstanding Early Career Scholar by the Decision Sciences Institute, Pace Setters Award for Research (2015) & Teaching (2013) awarded by the Ohio State University. He has presented his research with several organizations including 3M, Motorola, Medtronic, Cleveland Clinic, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and University of California-Irvine Hospitals.