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Malhotra Appointed At-Large Vice President, Decision Sciences Institute


Dr. Manoj K. Malhotra, Jeff B. Bates Professor and Chairman of the Management Science Department at the Moore School of Business, has been elected At-Large Vice President of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) for a two-year term beginning in April 2007.

The DSI is an international organization of academicians and business professionals with a focus on decision sciences. Malhotra has been involved with the organization for 17 years.

“Election to this office represents recognition by your peers of your leadership and your contributions to the profession,” said Gary L. Ragatz, chair of the DSI nominating committee in a letter of congratulations.

In addition to serving as professor and department chair, Malhotra is the founding director of the Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management, established at the Moore School in 2005. He earned an undergraduate degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, in 1983, and a Ph.D. in operations management from The Ohio State University in 1990. He is a Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management through the Association for Operations Management and has conducted seminars and consulted with firms such as John Deere, Metso Paper, NCR Corporation, Phelps Dodge, Sonoco, UCB Chemicals, and Verizon, among others.

Apart from teaching operations management, supply chain management, and global business issues at USC, Malhotra has also taught at the Terry School of Business, University of Georgia; Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien in Austria; and the Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University, Australia. He has been published in refereed journals such as Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Operations Management, OMEGA, and Production and Operations Management Journal.  He is a recipient of the Decision Sciences Institute’s Outstanding Achievement Award for the Best Application Paper in 1990, and the Stan Hardy Award in 2002 for the best paper published in the field of operations management.  More recently, his co-authored study on interorganizational systems and buyer-supplier dyads was selected as a finalist for the Decision Sciences Best Paper Award for 2005. The same paper also received the Stan Hardy Award in 2006 for the best paper published in the field of operations management.

Malhotra has won several teaching awards, including the Michael J. Mungo Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in 2006 from the University of South Carolina and the Alfred G. Smith Jr. Excellence in Teaching Award in 1995 from the Moore School of Business.  He was voted by the students as an Outstanding Professor in the International MBA program by the classes of 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2005; and as the Outstanding Professor in the IMBA-Vienna program by the classes of 1998 and 2004.  He was designated as one of the first “Master Teachers” in the Moore School of Business in 1998, and has been listed in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" in 1996 and 2000.
 
Malhotra is an associate editor of Decision Sciences and Journal of Operations Management, past area editor of Production and Operations Management Journal (2000-2003), and an editorial review board member of Journal of Managerial Decision-Making. 

Gail Crouch
March 2007