Curriculum Vitae

Hari Natarajan
Professor, Department of Management
Vice Dean, Undergraduate Business Education
Miami Herbert Business School
University of Miami
(305) 284-8587
414-K Jenkins Building
hari@miami.edu
CV

• Ph.D., 2004, Business Administration and Operations Research, Pennsylvania State University
• M.S., 2003, Business Administration (Management Science), Pennsylvania State University
• B. Tech., 1996, Naval Architecture, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

• Design and configuration of infrastructure and service Networks
• Planning, coordination, pricing, and execution in supply chains
• Assortment planning, inventory management, and pricing
• Sourcing and procurement coordination
• Mathematical programming and discrete optimization

• Vice Dean, Undergraduate Business Education, 2021 -
• Academic Director, Global Executive MBA Program, 2018 - 2021
• Professor, Department of Management, 2021 -
• Associate Professor, Department of Management, 2011 - 2021
• Assistant Professor, Department of Management, 2004 - 2011

• President, South Florida Chapter of INFORMS, 2014-
• Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2020-
• Associate Editor, Decision Sciences, 2012-
• Supervisory Director, Board of MetaCorp, 2019-
• Treasurer, South Florida Chapter of INFORMS, 2011-2013
• Visiting Researcher, University of Texas at Austin, 2002-03.
• Instructor, The Pennsylvania State University, 1997-2002.
• Software Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services (Madras, India), 1996-97.
• Collaborative projects with several companies including Armstrong World Industries, Capital One, Corning, Dsquare solutions, Intcomex, LatentView, Marketics, and Watsco.

• “Optimizing delivery fees for a network of distributors,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (with A. Balakrishnan and M. S. Pangburn).
• “Connectivity upgrading models for survivable network design,” Operations Research (with A. Balakrishnan and P. Mirchandani).
• “Joint dynamic pricing of multiple perishable products under consumer choice,” Management Science (with Y. Akcay and S. H. Xu).
• “Optimal configuration of a service delivery network: An application to a financial services provider,” Production and Operations Management (with G. Meester, A. Mehrotra, and M. Seifert).
• “Integrated procurement planning in multi-division firms,” Production and Operations Management (with A. Balakrishnan).
• “Designing fee tables for retail delivery services by third-party logistics providers,” IIE Transactions (with A. Balakrishnan), Winner of the IIE Transactions 2016 Scheduling and Logistics Best Paper Award.
• “Less is more: Harnessing product substitution information to rationalize SKUs at Intcomex,” Interfaces (with P. Bernales, Y. Guan, P. Souza, M. Tajes).
• “Leadership, dominance, and pre-eminence in channel structure with a common retailer,” Decision Sciences (with F. Fang, H. Gurnani), Top-cited Decision Sciences article 2018-2019.
• “Sourcing and procurement cost allocation in multi-division firms,” Production and Operations Management (with F. Fang).
• “Category inventory planning with service level requirements and dynamic substitutions,” Production and Operations Management (with Y. Li and Y. Akcay).

• Coordinating patient’s choice for cost-effective healthcare service delivery, (with F. Fang, M. Mehrotra)
• Pricing a vertically-differentiated assortment: An application to Florida Panthers’ season-ticket pricing (with Y. Guan, B. Macdonald)