BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Ananth Raman

Ananth Raman, associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management area, has been on the Harvard Business School faculty since 1993 and specializes in supply chain management. His research focuses on supply chain management for short lifecycle products with unpredictable demand, and emphasizes production and inventory planning, and the role of incentives. He has written many articles, case studies and book chapters.

His current research project casts him a co-director of a Sloan Foundation funded research project to study retail operations and merchandising practices. Over 30 retailers from the United States, Japan and Europe are currently participating in this study. The project involves researchers from Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has consulted with, and been responsible for management education programs for executives in a number of companies. During 1994-95, he advised the Indian government on strategies for increasing apparel exports from India. Raman has a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, and a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.)