Sriram Narayanan is a Full 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 including Management
Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production
and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management,
Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Retailing, Decision
Sciences Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of
Academy of Marketing Science, among others. 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.
He holds/has held editorial positions
in several top-tier journals including Management Science, Manufacturing
and Service Operations Journal, Production and Operations Management
Journal, Journal of Operations Management and Decision Sciences
Journal, Service Science, IEEE Transactions of Engineering
Management and Journal of Business Logistics. He has also co-edited two
special issues: one for the Journal of Operations Management on Innovation in Supply Networks, and
another for the Journal of Business Logistics on Extended Supply Chains. He has won outstanding reviewer awards
from the Journal of Operations Management and the Decision Sciences
Journal, and outstanding senior editor award from the Production and
Operations Management Journal. His research has been featured or cited in
Strategy & Business, NPR Marketplace, and other leading popular press
articles.
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.
He has served in several leadership roles in professional community of
Supply Chain Management. More specifically he 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 in 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.
He has a passion for Indian Philosophical literature, and also occasionally blogs on philosophy, and enjoys writing poetry, plays classical percussion music, loves to cook in addition to hosting two different podcasts - the AOFOW Podcast, and the POMS Podcast -- both of which are available in iTunes.
