Krishnan S. Anand Faculty Profile

Krishnan S. Anand
Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management

PhD, Stanford University, 1998; MS, University of Rochester, 1991; B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1986

Research Areas
Information, incentives and inventories in supply chains; strategic issues in e-commerce—e-supply chains and e-procurement; supply chain management; modeling information systems

Recent Consulting
Currently serving in advisory boards of different Dot-Coms. Consulting areas include e-retailing and e-fulfillment (e-logistics) strategies; Web-based market mechanisms; Information systems strategy and supply chain management

Current Projects
"Long-Term versus Short-Term Contracting: Information, Inventories and the Ratchet Effect" (with Ravi Anupindi and Yehuda Bassok). "Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce: The Effects of Online Marketing on Traditional Retail Channels" (with Terry Hendershott). "Web-Based Market Mechanisms" (with Ravi Aron). "Supply Chain competition: How more information can hurt you" (with Haim Mendelson).

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2000-present. Previous appointment: Northwestern University

Other Positions
Senior Systems Analyst, Frontier Information Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad, India, 1988-89; Founder and Director-Systems, Juggernaut Systems Consultants, Bangalore, India, 1986-88

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2000; Chair, Information Technology session, Symposium on "Supply Chain Integration", Northwestern University; Panelist and Discussant, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE); Ad hoc referee for Management Science, Information Systems Research, Operations Research and Journal of Organizational Computing Member, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management society (MSOM).

Representative Publications
(with H. Mendelson)
"Information and Organization for Horizontal Multimarket Coordination." Management Science 43.12 (December 1997).

"Can Information and Inventories be Complements?" Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Charlotte, NC (December 1999).

"The Strategic Use of Inventories in Procurement Contracts." Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM), Ann Arbor, MI (June 1999).