Nitin R. Joglekar is on the faculty
at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. His interests span digital
transformation of products & supply chains through artificial intelligence
and data driven decisions, platforms and market design, 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 was
a member of World
Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council, from 2018-23, wherein he focused
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
through Artificial Intelligence and Data Driven Decisions, Platforms and Market
design at Established Firms & Startups
· Digital Transformation
of Supply Chains - Organizational Traps and Double Loop Learning Mechanisms (with Harri Lorentz & Jag
Srai); 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 & Naoum Tsolakis); Initial datasets are from
Uber, Uber Freight, and the port of Thessaloniki, Greece.
· Transforming
Operational Processes with Generative AI and Data Analytics – Early Stage of Development.
Theme
2 - Industry Studies and Public Policies for Efficiency, Resilience &
Sustainability Scenarios
· Clean Energy Industry: Solar Panel Cleaning
Technologies; Platforms for Energy Community Startup (Translational Research).
· Food Industry: Reactive Supply Chain
Resilience - Wither or Thrive by Working Faster and Harder? (with Mukesh Kumar
& Naoum Tsolakis).
·
Healthcare: Impact of Telemedicine on Continuity of Care
of COPD Patients.
· Hospitality: Sustainability
Practices by Customers and Service Providers.
· Pharmaceutical Industry: Developing Process
Knowhow Across Structurally Dissimilar Networks (with Jag Srai, Tomas
Harrington & Sriram Narayanan).
· Retail: Integrated Inventory
and Labor Management under Demand Shock (with Fehmi Tanrisever).
Links
Current Courses &
Recent Publications - OTM Department Page