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Ravi Bapna
Board of Overseers Professor of Information and Decision Sciences; Executive Director, Srini Raju Centre for IT and the Networked Economy (SRITNE)
Area: Information Systems
Affiliation: Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Email:  rbapna@umn.edu
Education
PhD Operations & Information Management The University of Connecticut, 1999
B Tech Computer Engineering Mangalore University, 1993
B.Com Commerce St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta University, 1989
 
Research Interests
  • Electronic commerce e-mercantil
  • e-process design and evaluation
  • Internet auctions
  • Economics of information systems
     
 
Selected Publications
  • With P Goes, K K Wei, Z  Zhang, “A Finite Mixture Model to Examine B2B Electronic Payments System Adoption,” forthcoming Information Systems Research, 2009
  • With  S J Chang, P Goes, A Gupta, “Overlapping Liquidation Auctions: Empirical Characterization of Bidder Strategies and Auction Prices,” MIS Quarterly, 2009, 33:4, pp. 763-783
  • With P Goes,  A Gupta,  “Auctioning Vertically Integrated Online Services: Computational Approaches for Real-Time Allocation,” Journal of MIS, 2009, 25:3, pp 65-98
  • With W Jank , G Shmueli, "Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions," Information Systems Research, 19:(4), pp 400-416, December 2008
  • With P Goes, A Gupta, G Karuga, “Predicting Bidders’ Willingness to Pay in Online Multi-Unit Ascending Auctions: Analytical and Empirical Insights,” Informs Journal on Computing, 20: 3, pp. 345-355, Summer 2008
     
 
Working Papers
  •  "Human Capital Strategies for Offshore IT Service Firms: On Employability and Attrition," Information Systems Research
  •  “The Next Generation IT Function: Insights from the Field,” Sloan Management Review
  • "Research Commentary: Unresolved Incentive and Governance Issues in Multi-Sourcing IT Services Contracts," Twentieth Anniversary Special Issue , Information Systems Research, forthcoming
  • "Examining Returns to Training in the Offshore IT industry" 
 
Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor of Information and Decision Sciences, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 2008 – to date
  • Associate Professor of Information Systems, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India., September, 2006 – May, 2008
  • Associate Professor and Ackerman Scholar, Dept. of Operations & Information Management, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA , August, 2004–August, 2006
  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Dept. of Operations & Information Management, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA , August, 2001–July, 2004
  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Information Systems, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, August, 2000–July, 2001
  • Tenure-track Assistant Professor, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, August, 1999 – July, 2000
 
Other Professional Experience
  • Executive Director,  Srini Centre for IT and the Networked Economy (SRITNE), Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
  • Instructor, NIIT, New Delhi, India (1993-1994)
 
Achievements and Awards
  • BBC World panellist, “Outsourcing: From technology to medical Tourism – What Next? at Taj Krishna, Hyderabad on August 31, 2007
  • Invited to be a member of the Nasscom Innovation Institute, September 2006
  • Best Paper Nomination, WITS 2006, Milwaukee – “A Continuous Auction Model for Stochastic Grid Resource Pricing and Allocation,” with Sanjukta Das, Rob Garfinkel and Jan Staellert
  • Best Paper Runner Up, UConn School of Business, 2005-06
  • Ackerman Scholar, UConn School of Business, for outstanding research and teaching, 2005-2007
 
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