Faculty

Overview

Professor Sripad Devalkar's research interests fall under two broad themes:

1. agricultural operations
2. non-profit and public sector operations.

Within these thematic areas, he is interested in understanding issues related to supply chain management and how the interaction of operational, financial and risk management decisions affect outcomes.

He teaches the core Operations Management course in the PGP at the ISB, as well as an elective course on Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Education

• Ph D (Operations), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan 2011
• MBA , Indian Institute of Management 2000
• B.Tech (Chemical Engineetring), Indian Institute of Technology 1998

Research

Published Papers

Allu, Rakesh.,Deo, Sarang.,Devalkar, Sripad. (2019) "Alternatives to Aadhaar based biometrics in the Public Distribution System.", Economic and Political Weekly , 54 (12), 30-37 Devalkar, Sripad.,Krishnan, Harish. (2018) "The impact of working capital financing costs on the efficiency of trade credit", Production and Operations Management , Articles in advance Devalkar, Sripad.,Seshadri, Sridhar.,Ghosh, Chitrabhanu.,Mathias, Allen. (2018) "Data science applications in Indian agriculture", Production and Operations Management , 27 (9), 1701-1708 Devalkar, Sripad.,Anupindi, Ravi.,Sinha, Amitabh. (2017) "Dynamic Risk Management of Commodity Operations: Model and Analysis", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS , 20 (2), 317-332 Devalkar, Sripad.,Sohoni, Milind.,Arora, Priyank. (2017) "Ex-post funding: How should a resource constrained non-profit organization allocate its funds?", Production and Operations Management , 26 (6), 1035-1055 Chhatre, Ashwini.,Devalkar, Sripad.,Seshadri, Sridhar. (2016) "Crop diversification and risk management in Indian agriculture", Decision , 43 (2), 167-179 Devalkar, Sripad.,Anupindi, Ravi.,Sinha, Amitabh. (2011) "Integrated Optimization of Procurement, Processing and Trade of Commodities", Operations Research , 59 (6), 1369-1381

Cases

Devalkar, Sripad.,Deo, Sarang.,Gokhale, Meghana.,Vaidya, Akshay. (2017) "ATMYDOORSTEPS.COM: BREAKING GROUND IN THE ONLINE GROCERY MARKET IN INDIA", ISB Case Collection distributed through HBS Publishing

Working Papers

Devalkar, Sripad.,Wan, Zhixi. "Using procurement service providers in supplier screening" Devalkar, Sripad.,Sohoni, Milind.,Sharma, Neha. "Payment for Results: Funding Non-Profit Operations" Devalkar, Sripad.,Bala, Ram. "Delayed payments as performance-based contracts" Devalkar, Sripad.,Seshadri, Sridhar.,Janakiraman, Ganesh. "A Bound on the Cost of a Simple Policy in a Dual Sourcing Inventory System" Harry, Fischer.,Sohoni, Milind.,Devalkar, Sripad.,Chhatre, Ashwini. "Institutional Networks and Self-organized Adaptation to Climate Change" Ganesh, Maya.,Deo, Sarang.,Devalkar, Sripad. "Leveraging digital technology to improve monitoring and Planning in Public Sector Supply Chains: Evidence from India’s food security program." Devalkar, Sripad.,Ramaswami, Bharat.,Seshadri, Sridhar. "Creating markets: Intermediaries, non-staples and farmer welfare"