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The Carnegie Bosch Institute Research Committee is a group of faculty who hold the Carnegie Bosch Chairs. Currently these faculty are Sunder Kekre, Linda Argote, R. Ravi, Don Moore and Vishal Singh. Together they give guidance to the research direction of Carnegie Bosch Institute.
Dr. Sunder Kekre:
Bosch Professor of Manufacturing and Operations Management Sunder Kekre’s expertise is in manufacturing and operations systems with research focus on several interdisciplinary topics. These include time to market and new product development structures, lean innovation, strategic management of product and process designs,
emerging global supply chains, drivers of customer satisfaction and the
integration of technology, process and people issues in net-centric
enterprises. Sunder is also the Director of the Center for Business Solutions
at the Tepper School of Business and has worked with diverse companies
including Caterpillar, Chrysler, General Motors, IBM, and Lockheed Martin. His
research work has appeared in leading journals such as
Accounting Review, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Operations Research.
Dr. R. Ravi:
Carnegie Bosch Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science
R. Ravi is a professor of Operations Research and Computer Science, whose main
research interests are in Combinatorial Optimization. His research focuses on
developing fast algorithms for computationally hard optimization problems that
provide provably good solutions, arising in a variety of applications domains
ranging from logistics to bioinformatics. His recent work focuses on the
incorporation of uncertainty and robustness in classical combinatorial
optimization problems. Ravi’s research has been continually supported by the
NSF since he joined Carnegie Mellon in 1995. He has supervised eight doctoral
theses and developed half a dozen new graduate classes. Ravi has co-organized
over a dozen scientific workshops and currently serves on the editorial boards
of
Management Science, Operations Research and ACM Transactions on Algorithms.
He is also the founding director of the Center for Analytical Research in
Technology at the Tepper School of Business.
Dr. Don Moore: Carnegie Bosch Chair and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior & Theory
Don Moore received his Ph.D. in Organization Behavior from Northwestern
University. His research interests include negotiation, over-confidence,
comparative judgment especially with regard to when people believe themselves
to be better or worse than others, decision making and decision-making biases,
and conflicts of interest. He is the founding director of the Center for
Behavioral Decision Research.
Dr. Baohung Sun:
Carnegie Bosch Professor of Marketing
Baohung Sun received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Renmin University of China,
Beijing and a Ph. D. at the University of Southern California. Her extensive
consulting experience includes time with major corporations like PNC Bank, Bell
South, Tsingtao Beer, and IBM. Her research and teaching focus on rational and
strategic consumer choices and dynamic structural models, dynamic and
interactive marketing mix and customer relationship management, cross-category
and state dependent consumer choices and dynamic promotion effects, and new
product forecasting and survey design. As a member of editorial boards for
Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing, she has given talks at various top
business schools around the world. Additionally, she is a member of the
American Marketing Association, and the American Economics Association.
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