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. Linda Argote: Carnegie Bosch Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory
Linda Argote received a Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University and a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching focus on organizational learning, productivity, knowledge transfer, and group processes and performance. Her research has appeared in numerous journals, and her book, Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge (Kluwer, 1999) was a finalist for the Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management in 2000. Professor Argote is currently Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science. She has also served on many editorial boards. She served as Chair of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), College on Organization Science from 1993-1995, on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management from 2000-2002 and as Departmental Editor of Management Science’s Department of Organizational Performance, Strategy, and Design from 1995-2003.

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 Faculty Development Chair and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and 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. Vishal Singh: Carnegie Bosch Faculty Development Chair and Assistant Professor of Marketing 
Vishal Singh is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business where he teaches Marketing Research to undergraduate and MBA students. Vishal Singh received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His research focuses on developing econometric models to help firms gather and analyze marketplace data for better decision-making. Other major research interests include retail competition and the empirical application of game theory to understanding competitive pricing and sales promotion behavior of retailers and manufacturers. His published work appears in leading academic journals and has been cited in several business press articles.