Nitin R. Joglekar is on the faculty
at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. His interests span digital
transformation of products & supply chains, market design, public policy and
sustainability realms. He serves as a fellow at BU’s Digital Business
Institute.
Recent consulting and research
projects have focused on advanced manufacturing & digitalization of
products and supply chains (within biopharma, energy transition, multimodal
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 serves as an NSF expert panelist on advanced manufacturing. He is a
member of World
Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council, wherein he focuses on
digitalization and 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
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 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 (Working papers or updates
available on request):
Theme 1 -
Digital Transformation of Products & Supply Chains - Information
Infrastructure Growth, AI & Analytics Interventions, and Market Design at
Established Firms & Startups
o
Multimodal Logistics with AI Based Distributed Control Platforms
(with Brad Lee, Geoffrey Parker &
Naoum Tsolakis)
o
Digital Transformation of Supply Chains - Configurations Traps and
Double Loop Learning Mechanisms (with
Harri Lorentz & Jag Srai)
o
Generative Design of Platform Features for Developing Human
Centered Solutions - Early Stage Work.
Theme 2 - Industry Studies and
Public Policies for Supply Chain Configuration, Resilience & Sustainability
Scenarios; Real-Time Control (via Towers)
o
Pharmaceutical Production: Real Time Control of Continuous Drug Manufacturing
– Initial Paper - Developing Process Knowhow Across Structurally Dissimilar
Networks (with Jag Srai, Tomas Harrington & Sriram Narayanan)
o
Retail: Integrated Inventory and Labor Management under Negative
Demand Shock (with Fehmi Tanrisever)
o
Food Industry: Supply Chain Resilience - Wither or Thrive by
Working Faster and Harder? (with Mukesh Kumar & Naoum Tsolakis)
o
Energy Industry: Platform for Energy Community Startup
(Translational Research)
Links
Current Courses &
Recent Publications - OTM Department Page