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Sudhakar D. Deshmukh

Charles E. Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences

Co-Director MMM: Management Program in Operations Design

Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

B. E. (Mechanical Engineering), Pune University (India); M. S. (Industrial Engineering), Purdue University; Ph. D. (Business Administration), University of California, Berkeley.

Member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  Operations Management, Analytical Modeling on Spreadsheets, Probability and Decision Analysis, Stochastic Models and Optimization.
   
Research Areas
  Probabilistic and stochastic optimization models of decisions involving time and uncertainty, with applications in operations management, management science, and economics.
   
Current Projects
  Role of time, uncertainty, and competition in operations management decisions regarding cost, quality, and responsiveness.
   
Representative Publications
  "Computational Delays", Management Science, 1974.

"Dynamic Pricing with Stochastic Entry" (with S. Chikte), Review of Economic Studies, 1976.

"Dynamic Investment Strategies for a Risky R&D Project" (with S. Chikte), Journal of Applied Probability, 1977.

"Capacity Design and Service Quality Control in a Queueing System" (with S. Jain), Operations Research, 1977.

"A Zero-Sum Stochastic Game Model of Duopoly (with W. Winston), International Journal of Game Theory, 1978.

"Optimal Consumption and Exploration of Nonrenewable Resources Under Uncertainty" (with S. Pliska), Econometrica, 1980.

"Preventive Maintenance and Replacement Under Additive Damage" (with S. Chikte), Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1981.

"Lending Policies of Financial Intermediaries Facing Credit and Funding Risks" (with S. Greenbaum and G. Kanatas), Journal of Finance, 1983.

"A Martingale Characterization of the Price of a Nonrenewable Resource with Decisions Involving uncertainty" (with S. Pliska), Journal of Economic Theory, 1985.

"The Role of Search in Bilateral Bargaining" (with S. Chikte), Operations Research, 1987.

"To be The First or To be The Best: New product Quality and Timing in R&D Competition", Working Paper.

Managing Business Process Flows
(with R. Anupindi, S. Chopra, J. Van Mieghem and E. Zemel), second edition, Prentice-Hall, 2006.
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