Nitin R. Joglekar
Nitin R. Joglekar is on the faculty at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. His interests span business analytics, design thinking, problem solving, and systems thinking in the digital product management, digital supply chains, engineering & business interface, entrepreneurship, and public policy realms.
Recent consulting and research
projects have focused on advanced manufacturing/ design/ logistics services
(within biopharma; energy transition; transportation), tele-health, and
cloud-based Software/AI-Tools sectors. Prior to his academic career, he has
overseen product management and supply chain functions at established firms and
founded a venture capital backed software startup. He has served as an NSF
expert panelist on advanced manufacturing. He is a member of World
Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council, wherein he focuses on business
model transformations enabled by Industry 4.0 infrastructure. He
holds engineering degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Memorial
University (Canada), and MIT and doctoral degree in management science from the
MIT Sloan School.
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 offers online Digital
Product Management (DPMT) courses through edX.org. He will teach fostering
innovative mindset in Questrom’s Online MBA
program. He has won several 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 Copenhagen Business School.
He has been an editor for IEEE Transactions,
Management Science, and the Production & Operations
Management Journal. His book on complex adaptive systems, The
Innovation Butterfly, addresses management of innovation risks and
allied analytics opportunities.
Current & Recent Projects:
I. Business Analytics Projects within
Firms: Digitalization Technologies
& Analytics Interventions for Product, Service & Supply Chain
Development
Current
·
Leveraging Industry 4.0
Infrastructure: (3DP, AI, AR/VR, Infrastructure as Code, IOT
Sensors, Digital Twins & Control Towers, Data Platforms and Lean/Agile
etc.) to Transform Operating and Business Models in Manufacturing and Service
Firms; see related 2020 white paper for
the World Economic Forum here
(with
Jag Srai and Geoffrey Parker).
·
Micro-foundations of Digital Transformation
Projects: Routines Aimed at Infrastructure
Growth, Local Optimization, and System-Wide Improvements (with Jag Srai and
Harri Lorentz).
·
Towards Differentiated Business Models: Supply
Chain Reconfigurations as Modalities for Digital Transformations (with Jag Srai
and Harri Lorentz)
Recently Completed (or
Under Review)
·
Scaled Lean/Agile for Data
Products at Swisscom (with Professor Steven Eppinger, Rajaram Srinivasan,
Siddharth Bajpai and Nithin Narayanan at MIT, 2018-21); Recent conference
papers are here: ICED
2019, DSM
2019, DSM2020
and DSM
2021.
·
Technology Readiness Levels:
Shortcomings and Improvement Opportunities (with Alison Olechowski and Steven
Eppinger at MIT); see Systems Engineering 2020 paper here.
·
Machine Learning: Activation of COPD Patients with Telehealth
Enabled Continuity of Care (with Carrie Queenan and Kellas Cameron); see POM 2019 paper here.
·
Machine Learning & Platform Analytics: Surge Pricing - Spatial
Distribution & Biases (with Brad Lee, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Marcus
Bellamy); working papers available upon request.
·
Production Scaling of Solar Cleaning Technologies; see IEEE 2019 paper here.
II.
Business Analytics across Local and Global Supply Chains: Data-Driven Studies of Industries, Public Policies
and Business Disruption Scenarios
Industry Focus: Energy Transitions; Health (Biopharma, Pandemic,
Telehealth)
Current
·
Co-Editor – Special Issue of
Production & Operations Management devoted to Managing
Operations & Supply Chains for Pandemics (with Edward Anderson,
Sushil Gupta and Martin Starr)
·
Special Issue of Production
& Operations Management: Assessing Long-Term Infrastructure Investments
based on Public Policy Scenarios (with Edward Anderson, Geoffrey Parker and Jag
Srai)
·
Analytical Study: Retail
Capital, Inventory and Labor Management under Short-Term Demand Shock (with
Fehmi Tarnisever).
Recently Completed (or
Under Review)
·
Just-in-Case Operations: Accelerated and Collaborative Supply
Chain Scenario Planning for Disruptions in Regulatory and Societal Contexts
(with Shardul Phadnis at MISI); see Sloan Management Review 2020 paper here
and POM 2021 paper here.
·
Managing Capital Market Frictions via Cost-reduction
Investments (with Fehmi Tanrisever, Sinan Erzurumlu and Moren Levesque); see MSOM 2021 paper here.
·
Competing and Coexisting Policy Regimens within Supply Chain
Configurations (with Jag Srai, Naoum Tsolakis and Sandeep Kapur); forthcoming
in POM 2021, see working paper here.
·
Health - Digitalization Risks in Biopharma Consortia
(with Jag Srai & Tomas Harrington); see SSRN paper here.
·
Health - Ramp-Up of Elective Surgery Capacity for COVID-19
Transitions (with Edward Anderson and Richard Freeman); see SSRN paper here.
Links
Current Courses &
Recent Publications - OTM Department Page