At UC Davis, Graduate School of Management, UC Davis, since July 2003.

• Previously: Professor of Information Systems at Penn State University (Smeal College of Business Administration, 2000-03) and the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, 1989-2000)

• Past Visiting Affiliations: Carnegie Mellon University, Humboldt University (Berlin) and University of Maastricht. 

Director, Center for Analytics and Technology in Society (CATS)

Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, from July 1, 2025

Co-Founder and First Academic Director, MSBA (Master of Science in Business Analytics) program

Distinguished Fellow, INFORMS Information Systems Society.

UC Davis Executive Council, and Chair of Faculty Executive Committee at the GSM, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2017-18.

Associate Dean for Instructional Programs, 2010-2013

Mondavi Center Academic Advisor Council, 2020-2025

Advisory Board, UC Davis Data Science Initiative (later, UC Davis Data Lab), since 2015.

Advisory Board, UC Davis Religions of India Initiative, 2012-2020.

Education

• Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1989).

• MBA, Indian Institute of Bangalore (1986)

• BS (Mathematics), University of Delhi (1984)

Hemant K. Bhargava, Antoine Dubus, David Ronayne, and Shiva Shekhar, “The strategic value of data sharing in interdependent markets”, Management Science (forthcoming) (Apr. 2025)

Hemant K. Bhargava, Susan Brown, Anindya Ghose, Alok Gupta, Dorothy Leidner, and D.J. Wu, “Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Research: Perspectives from Senior Scholars in Management Information Systems”, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (forthcoming 2025) 

Hemant K. Bhargava, “Multi-Device Consumption of Digital Goods: Optimal Product Line Design with Bundling”, Journal of Management Information Systems 40 (Mar. 2023), pp. 724–751

Manish Gangwar and Hemant K. Bhargava, “Pricing On-Demand Services: Alternative Ways of Combining Usage and Access Fees”, Production and Operations Management (feature article) 32 (Jan. 2023), pp. 11–27

Hemant K. Bhargava, Kitty Wang, and Luna Zhang, “Fending off Critics of Platform Power: Doing Well by Doing Good”, Management Science 68 (Nov. 2022), pp. 7793–8514 (Winner of Best Paper Award at Conference on Information Systems and Technology 2021)

Edward G. Anderson, Hemant K. Bhargava, Jonas Boehm, and Geoffrey Parker, “Electric Vehicles Are a Platform Business: What Firms Need to Know”, California Management Review 64.4 (2022)

Hemant K. Bhargava, “The Creator Economy: Managing Ecosystem Supply, Revenue-Sharing, and Platform Design”, Management Science 68 (July 2022), pp. 4755–5555

Sunita M Desai, Jiejie Wang, Uttara Ananthakrishnan, Ishita Ghai, Ateev Mehrotra, and Hemant K. Bhargava “Research Letter: Potential Savings Associated With Switching Medication Formulation”, JAMA Health Forum (Feb. 2022)

Hemant K. Bhargava, Jonas Boehm, and Geoffrey Parker, “How Tesla’s Charging Stations Left Other Manufacturers in the Dust”, Harvard Business Review (Jan. 2021)