|
Sriram Narayanan is a Full-time Professor and also the Eli Broad Endowed Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Broad College of Business, Michigan State University (MSU) in the Supply Chain Management Department. He is also the faculty director of the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership.
He earned his doctoral degree in Operations, Technology, and Innovation Management at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Sriram's primary research interests are in innovation, organizational productivity, sustainability, and inclusion in supply chains. In his research, he attempts to blend practice and theories, and many of his academic papers are directly drawn from industry environments. His research is cross disciplinary. He has published more than 30 articles, majority of which are in top-tier journals. He is a regular contributor to the Supply Chain Management Review, a leading Supply Chain Management Practice outlet. In recent times, much of his research has focused on community engagement and inclusion and better understanding how supply chain ideas can be applied to facilitate inclusion.
He has won multiple awards for teaching, research, community engagement, and service including the John D. and Dorotha, J. Withrow Endowed Emerging Research Scholar Award; Community-Engaged Partnership Award at Michigan State University, the Lilly Fellowship (MSU) - a select university wide fellowship, and Broad Integrative Fellowship (MSU). He holds editorial positions in several top-tier supply chain management journals.
His research has been funded by Peckham Community Partnership Foundation, the National Science Foundation, MSU Foundation, Partnership for Innovative Research in Africa at MSU, and the Michigan Health Endowment Fund. Narayanan has served on the board of the Decision Sciences Institute as a Vice President of Professional Development and the Production and Operations Management Society as Vice President of Publications. He served as a co-program chair for the Production and Operations Management Society Annual conference, served as research chair for the Decision Sciences Annual Conference in November 2020; and the General Chair of the Decision Sciences Conference in 2021. He has served as a track chair across numerous national and international conferences.
He has taught project management, agile product development, technology and innovation management, and service supply chains, with a focus on solution development and scaling in digital environments. In addition, he has also taught doctoral seminars within the Broad College.
Prior to doctoral studies, he worked in the industry of procurement and project leadership roles. Specifically, he worked as a procurement executive in Maruti Suzuki and as a project leader for HCL Technologies Limited, primarily working with Cisco Systems. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from the University of Delhi.
| 
