Education and industry Experience

• SCM 815: Emerging Topics in Supply Chain Management: Product Innovation and Technology Management in Supply Chains

  • Audience: M.B.A 

• SCM 475: Project Management

  • Audience: Undergraduate Supply Chain Management

• SCM 910: Introduction to Supply Chain Management Research
  Audience: PhD.

• SCM 916: Statistical Research Methods in Supply Chain Management

  • Audience: PhD.

• SCM 883: Product Innovation and Technology Management 

  • Audience: Master of Sciences (M.S) in Supply Chain Management, Working Executives

• SCM 869: Service Supply Chains

  • Audience: M.B.A

• SCM 372: Manufacturing Planning and Control

  • Audience: Undergraduate Supply Chain Management

Current committees

• 2023: Ryan Schollmeier (Michigan State University) (Committee member)
  Thesis title: Examining policy-related issues and their effect on labor dynamics and the supply chain
  Discipline: Logistics Management

Completed committees

• 2023: Llord Brooks (University of Arkansas) (External Committee Member) – University of South Florida
  Thesis title: Essays Examining Humanitarian Supply Chains: Investigating Operational Characteristics, Activities, and Performance
  Discipline: Logistics Management

• 2023: Micah Ward (Michigan State University) (Committee Member) – Iowa State University

Thesis title: Exploring Challenges and the Evolution of the Retail Industry: A Consumer Perspective

Discipline: Logistics Management

• 2022: Jason Shin (Michigan State University) (Committee member) – Fordham University

Thesis title: Time Series Analysis for the Adoption of Electronic Commerce in Manufacturing Industry

Discipline: Logistics Management

• 2022: Zhenzhen Yan (Michigan State University) (Co-Chair with Prof. Tobias Schoenherr) Idaho State University

Thesis title: Essays on Strategic Purchasing

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2022: Cole, Dustin (Michigan State University) (Chair) – Auburn University

Thesis title: Essays on Community-engaged Supply Chains

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2022: Ming Li (Michigan State University) (Committee member) – Currently at University of Central Arkansas

Thesis title: Longitudinal Examination of Firm-level Supply Chain Sustainability

    Discipline: Logistics Management

• 2021: Huang, Herbie (UNC Chapel Hill) (External Committee Member) - At Ali Baba in Singapore

Thesis title: Climate Disclosures, Supplier Governance, and Market Solutions on Environmental Sustainability
Discipline: Operations Management

• 2021: Jassi, Poonam (IE Business School) (External Committee Member, President of the Academic Committee) - DBA

Thesis title: The impact of Characteristics of workers schedules on the specific worker outcome absenteeism.
Discipline: Operations Management, Doctoral of Business Administration

• 2021: Ryu, Jaemin (Michigan State University) (External Committee member) – At National Bank of Korea

Thesis title: How (de-)regulation or technological progress affects productivity in banking industry

Discipline: Economics

• 2021: Lee, Gyusuk (Michigan State University) (Committee member) – At IE Business School, Spain.

Thesis title: Essays on supply network structures and structural positions of firms: A social network perspective

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2019: Sethuraman, Nagarajan (UNC Chapel Hill) (External Committee Member) - At Kansas University

Thesis title: Digital Disruption & Innovative Operations: Operational Implications of 3D Printing Business Models and Maker Movement

Discipline: Operations Management

• 2017: Zhexiong Tao (McGill University)

Thesis title: Manufacturers' responses to external pressures: power and corruption

• 2017: R Sreedevi (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore) – At SP Jain Institute of Management Research

Thesis title: Essays on Supply Chain Risk Management

• 2017: Kraude, Richard (Co-Chair with Professor Srinivas Talluri) – At University of Buffalo, SUNY

Thesis title: Risk Management in Supply Chains and New Product Development

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2016: Castel, Matthew (Co-Chair with Professor Shawnee Vickery) – At Boise State University, Boise, Idaho.

Thesis Title: Hospital focus: An examination of its antecedents, complementarities, synergies, and effects on triple aim hospital performance outcomes

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2016: Dreyfus, David (Committee member) – At Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Thesis title: Essays on Service Disruptions and Efficiency in Acute Episodes of Care

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2016: Duhadway, Scott (Committee member) – At Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

Thesis Title: An Investigation of the Impact of Trust, Knowledge, and Dependence Asymmetries on Relational Performance in Buyer-Supplier Dyads

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2015: Huang, Yu (Committee member) – ABD

Thesis title: The antecedents of the adoption and use of cloud computing in organizations

Discipline: Accounting and Information Systems

• 2013: Kim, Myung Kyo (Committee member) – At Kansas State University, Kansas, Missouri

Thesis title: Toward a new perspective of the supply chain: Supply network architecture as a strategic intent outcome and supply chain performance driver of a firm.

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2012: Srinivasan, Ravi (Committee member) - At Sellinger School of Business, Loyola University,MD.

Thesis title: Governing inter-organizational relationships in the presence of ex post opportunism and uncertainty: An alignment model of managing outsourcing

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

• 2011: Lee, Jung Young (Committee member) - At College of Business, Northern Illinois University, IL

Thesis title: Incremental Innovation and Radical Innovation: The impacts of human, structural, social, and relational capital elements

Discipline: Operations and Sourcing Management

Fulbright Scholar Advising

• Dr. Budi Harsanto, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia.

1. Narayanan, Sriram, Aaron Ratcliffe (2019) “Volvo Trucks – Implementing, Integrating and Scaling Vehicle Monitoring” – Case study designed in collaboration with Volvo Motors.

2. Narayanan, Sriram (2017) “Leveraging the Connected Chiller Opportunity: Johnson Controls – Transforming Service Delivery and Customer Experience” – Case study designed with Johnson Controls Inc.

3. Mi Ran Kim, Sriram Narayanan, Hang Nguyen, Hayong Yun, and Isabel Wang (2015) “Implementing Customer Focused Sustainability Practices at Marriott: Integrating People, Profit and Planet Perspectives” – Case study with Marriott as Part of Broad Integrative Fellow Program (Authors in alphabetical order).

4. Sriram Narayanan and David Closs (2011) “Handling Service Failures in Large Offshore Outsourcing Deals”  Case developed for SCM 869 (M.B.A service operations), Developed in collaboration with a large Indian Software Company, Administered: Spring 2011

5. Cheryl Dalsin, Rob Guderian and Sriram Narayanan (2011) “Customer Quality Issues and Transit Time Analysis” Developed for SCM 372 (Undergraduate operations management) developed in collaboration with Intel Corp. This case was administered as an in-class case contest. Administered: Spring 2011, Spring 2012

6. Cheryl Dalsin, Rob Guderian and Sriram Narayanan (2012) “Shipment Volume Linearity and Shift Data” Developed for SCM 869 (Graduate Service Supply Chain) developed in collaboration with Intel Corp. This case was administered as an in-class case contest. Administered: Spring 2012

7. Sriram Narayanan (with multiple employees at Gexpro Services) (2010) “Inventory management at Gexpro” Developed for SCM 372 (undergraduate operations management), Developed in collaboration with Gexpro Inc. This case was administered as an in-class case contest for about 120 students. Administered: Spring 2010, Spring 2011

8. Sriram Narayanan and Morgan Swink (2010) “Governance challenges in Business Process Offshoring:  The Base Solution” Developed in collaboration with Wipro Technologies.

9. Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Sriram Narayanan (2007) “Indo-Soft: Capacity Planning in Software Services,” Currently being administered in classes at UNC Chapel Hill and administered in the MSU Service Supply Chain classes.