Kalyan Singhal

Kalyan Singhal is an Indian American scholar, editor, and social entrepreneur. He is the Doris E. and Robert V. McCurdy Distinguished Professor of Management at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore.[1]  Kalyan has contributed to the fields of innovation, international trade, management sciences, manufacturing operations, operations research, service operations, supply chain management, and sustainable operations. He is the founder editor-in-chief of Production and Operations Management Journal and the founding president of Production and Operations Management Society.[2] Kalyan was elected as an INFORMS fellow in 2004,[3] fellow of Production and Operations Management Society.[4]

Kalyan Singhal
Born
Mhow, India
Scientific career
FieldsBusiness Management, Management Science, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management

Kalyan Singhal was born in 1946 in Mhow, India. He received his doctorate in business from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, BTech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Dr. Singhal is married to Dr. Jaya Asthana Singhal, currently the Frank Baker Chair for Research Excellence at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore. They have a daughter, Jyoti.  

Career

Kalyan served on the faculty of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore from 1974 to 1977, where he founded the Department of Production and Operations Management. Later he served on the faculties of US business schools including those at the University of Arizona, and the University of Houston.  He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Management at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore.

In 1989, Kalyan founded the Production and Operations Management Society dedicated to the creation and dissemination of knowledge in operations and supply chain management.[5]  He also founded the society's journal, Production and Operations Management (POM) in 1992 and has served as its editor in chief since.[6] 

Singhal recently founded the Management and Business Review, a journal for executives and managers, and serves as co-editor in chief along with Wallace Hopp of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and Christopher Ittner of The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.[7]  Forbes magazine interviewed Singhal, calling MBR a rival to the Harvard Business Review.[8] 

Kalyan's has been published in leading journals in innovation, operations, and supply-chain management: the Academy of Management Review, the Harvard Business Review, the INFORMS Journal of Computing, the European Journal of Operations Research, INFORMS Interfaces, the International Journal of Production Research, the Journal of Operations Management, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management.  Dr. Jaya Singhal is his frequent coauthor. He is among the only 25 authors in the world to have published in four "top" operations management journals.[9]

Kalyan's op-eds have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, India Abroad, The Hindu, and the Hindustan Times, and his commentary has appeared in Business-Week, The Economist, and The Washington Post.[10][11][12]

Honors and Awards

Kalyan is an elected fellow at INFORMS and Production and Operations Management Society. The Production and Operations Management Society has instituted an annual Kalyan Singhal Award ($30,000) to recognize innovations in companies.

References
  1. "Kalyanmal Singhal - University of Baltimore". www.ubalt.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  2. "Production and Operations Management". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  3. INFORMS. "Fellows: Alphabetical List". INFORMS. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  4. "POMS". www.poms.org. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  5. "POMS". www.poms.org. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  6. "Production and Operations Management". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  7. "About Management and Business Review". MBR Journal. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  8. Byrne, John. "Profs Plan A Rival To The Harvard Business Review". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  9. Babbar, Sunil; Koufteros, Xenophon; Bendoly, Elliot; Behara, Ravi; Metters, Richard; Boyer, Kenneth (2020). "Looking at ourselves: Lessons about the operations management field learned from our top journals". Journal of Operations Management. 66 (3): 349–364. doi:10.1002/joom.1081. ISSN 1873-1317.
  10. "Making the US-India nuclear deal acceptable". www.rediff.com. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  11. Singhal, Kalyan. "Universities should teach mostly online classes this fall semester | COMMENTARY". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
  12. "On American power, India, Germany, Niels Bohr, pharmaceuticals, flying turkeys, health warnings". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2020-10-26.
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