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Yash Gupta Faculty Bio

Yash Gupta

Yash Gupta, PhD
Professor

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
100 International Drive
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 234-9210
carey.dean@jhu.edu

Yash Gupta, PhD (Management Sciences, University of Bradford) joined the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2008. He is the dean of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

Honors and Distinctions

  • Recipient of the University of Colorado Medal (2000).
  • Ranked number one production and operations management scholar in the country in terms of contributions made to the field. Citation appeared in the Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 1996.
  • Golden Key Scholastic Honor Society, inducted 1993; Beta Gamma Sigma, inducted 2000; Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, inducted 2005.
  • Research Grants
    • State of Colorado – A proposal entitled “Educational Technology: Delivering Program in Business Administration via Audio and Video Conferencing Technologies”
    • AT&T Foundation – A proposal entitled “The Enhancement of the School of Business Technological Capabilities for Student Learning”
    • Alliant Health Systems
    • Bell South Foundation
    • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 1988-1991
    • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic Grant, 1984
    • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 1982, 1983, 1984
  • Editorial Work
    • Area Editor, Productions and Operations Management Journal
    • Member, Editorial Board, Technovation: The International Journal of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Selected Publications

  • "Impact of Environment and Task Characteristics on End-User Information Satisfactoriness", Information Systems Research, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2004, 175-193 (with D. Chin, J. Karimi, and T. Somers).
  • "Solving the Capacitated Lot-sizing Problem with Backorder Consideration", Journal of Operational Research Society, Vol. 52, No. 8, 2001, 952-959 (with CH Cheng, MS Madan, and S. So).
  • "Impact of Information Technology Management Practices on Customer Service," (with Karimi, J. and Somers, T.), Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 125-158 (2001).
  • "An Empirical Examination of Congruence Between Manufacturing Strategy and Business Strategy," (with Lonial, S.), Journal of Production and Operations Management Society, Vol.7, No.3, pp.243-264, (1999).
  • "A TSP Based Heuristic for Forming Machine Groups and Part Families" (with Cheng, C..H., Lee, W.H., and Wong, K.F.), International Journal of Production Research, (1998).

Works in Progress

  • "Improving Productivity and Employee Satisfaction in Hospital Emergency Departments: A Case of Lean Production Application" (with A. Ezzeddine and T. Somers).
  • "The New Private Sector: Transnationally Networked NGOs" (with S. Perelli and T. Somers).
  • "IT Maturity, E-Business Initiatives and Supplier Quality Management: Antecedents of Supply Chain Management System Satisfaction" (with B. Greer and T. Somers).

Teaching Interests

  • Operations Management Policy
  • Project Planning and Control
  • Advanced Production Management
  • Probabilistic Models in Operations Research
  • Optimization Techniques in Business