SRIRAM NARAYANAN

Welcome to my site.  I am the Eli Broad Endowed Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Broad College of Business, Michigan State University (MSU) in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) Department.  I am also the Founding Academic Director of the Center for Ethical and Socially Responsible Leadership at the Broad College of Business, Michigan State University.

I earned my PhD. in Operations, Technology, and Innovation Management at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Prior to PhD, I have an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Degree from the Delhi College of Engineering (Now Delhi Technological University) and an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. 

I have worked in the Automotive Industry prior to my MBA at Maruti Udyog Limited (Now Maruti Suzuki India) as a Purchase Executive. My role blended technical and business side of sourcing fasteners, and localizing products with Indian vendors. I interned for Tata Motors in their Jamshedpur Truck Manufacturing Facility (now Jharkhand, India), and Indian Airlines in New Delhi at their Aircraft Maintenance Facility. 

Post MBA, I worked for HCL Technologies Limited in Project Management and Business Development Roles. My role involved managing an Engineering Team that worked with Cisco Systems, in addition to business development/pre-sales roles and working with leadership to lead many internal project efforts.