Prof. Sridhar Tayur School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Sridhar R. Tayur is an American management thinker, and Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He is the founder of SmartOps Corporation and OrganJet Corporation, and served as the CEO of SmartOps from 2000 to 2011. Tayur is known... read morefor his work in Inventory Theory, Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing, and Healthcare Management. In 2012, Tayur was elected as a fellow of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in honor of his lifetime achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.