Nitin R. Joglekar is on the faculty at Boston
University’s Questrom School of Business. His interests span digital
transformation through human-centered applications of AI for Creativity (within product & supply chain management,
platforms and market design), and allied ethics and social responsibility
realms.
Recent consulting and coaching projects have focused
on deployment of AI technologies, and allied go-to-market practices, during
digitalization of product and supply chain solutions. Prior to his academic
career, Professor Joglekar has overseen product management and supply chain
functions at established firms and founded a venture capital backed software
startup. Currently, he serves as a technical advisor to AI startup Tellagence. He was a member of World
Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council, from 2018-23, wherein he focused
on business model transformations, digitalization, ethics and social
responsibility realms enabled by Industry 4.0 and AI infrastructure.
At Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, Professor
Joglekar teaches courses related to his research themes at undergraduate,
graduate and executive levels. He was the founding director of his schools’
online micro-master’s programs in Digital Leadership and Product Management. He
has offered online Digital
Product Management (DPMT) courses through edX.org. He also teaches
fostering innovative mindset in Questrom’s Online MBA
program. He has won awards, including the Broderick Award for Teaching
Excellence and the General Electric Award for Team Learning. He has been a visiting
faculty member at MIT Sloan School of Management and at University of Texas,
and a visiting fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, and at Copenhagen
Business School.
He is currently a department editor for Digital
Platforms, Innovations, and Transformations (DPIT) at the Production & Operations Management Journal.
He has been an editor for IEEE Transactions
and Management Science. His book on
complex adaptive systems, The
Innovation Butterfly, addresses management of innovation risks and
allied analytics opportunities.
Current Projects:
Theme 1 -
Digital Transformation of Products & Supply Chains through Human-Centered
AI and Data Driven Decisions, Platforms and Market design at Established Firms
& Startups
·
Human-Centered Decision Processes with Generative AI, Analytics
and Ethics: (i) Emerging Practices and Frictions within Creative Design Processes
(with Karthik Ramachandran); (ii) Governance, Decision Aggregation and Model
Management (with Nitin Mayande and Sharookh Daruwalla).
·
Digital Transformation of Supply Chains: (i) Towards Double Loop
Learning Based on IoT Data, Pattern
Recognition, and Mental Model Adjustments (with Harri Lorentz and Jag
Srai)*; (ii) Managerial Paper in SMR:
Three Stages for Digital Manufacturing Transformation (with Geoffrey Parker and
Jag Srai)*.
·
Multimodal Logistics with AI-Based Oversight of Platforms (with
Brad Lee, Geoffrey Parker and Naoum
Tsolakis); Initial datasets are on Uber and the port of Thessaloniki, Greece.*
Theme
2 - Industry Studies and Public Policies for Ethics, Resilience &
Social Responsibility Scenarios
·
Food Industry: Reactive Supply Chain Resilience - Wither or Thrive by Working
Faster and Harder? (with Mukesh Kumar & Naoum Tsolakis).*
·
Healthcare (Pharmaceutical) Industry: Developing
Design Rules for Continuous Manufacturing and Real Time Control across
Structurally Dissimilar Networks (with Jag Srai, Tomas Harrington and Sriram
Narayanan).*
·
Retail: Adjustments to Inventory Policies while Furloughing Employees
whose Return is Uncertain and Costly (with Fehmi Tanrisever).*
·
Energy/ Social Responsibility: Development of Solar Panel
Cleaning Technologies; Machine Driven Network Effect in Platforms for B2B
Energy Community Solutions (Translational Research).*
* Working
paper(s) available on request.
Links
Current Courses &
Recent Publications - OTM Department Page