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Ph.D. in Management, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, 1987
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M.S. in Mechanical Engineering,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 1983
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B.E. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (formerly
Regional Engineering College), University of Madras, Trichy,
India, 1981
Dr. Balakrishnan teaches courses in Spreadsheet Based Decision
Modeling, Business Statistics, and Operations Management. His
current research focuses on capacity allocation models, problems
related to configurations of supply chains, and studying the impact of
business process outsourcing. His
articles have been published in leading academic journals such as
Decision Sciences, Production and Operations
Management, European Journal of Operational Research,
IIE Transactions, Networks, and Computers &
Operations Research. He serves as Senior Departmental Editor of
Production and Operations Management, and served as
Secretary of the
Production and Operations Management Society during 2006-08.
Dr. Balakrishnan is lead author of the textbook
Managerial Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets,
Second edition, published by Prentice-Hall in 2007.
Prior to his appointment at Clemson University, Dr. Balakrishnan was
on the faculty in the Freeman
School of Business at Tulane
University.
Dr. Balakrishnan is the recipient of the 1997 Department of
Management Award for Scholarly Excellence, the MBA
Teacher of the Year Award in 1998-99 and 2006-07, and
the CBBS Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in 1998-99
and 2000-01. |
