Aditya Jain

Aditya Jain is assistant professor of Operations Management at Zicklin Business School at Baruch College in New York city. His primary research interests include retail operations, supply chain management and healthcare operations. Aditya earned his PhD in Operations Management from the Simon School of Business at University of Rochester, and served as a faculty member at Indian School of Business and the Kellogg School of Northwestern University prior to his current appointment. His industry experience includes extensive consulting work with fashion retailer through the retail/supply chain analytics company he founded and ran for several years. He holds bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Education

• PhD University of Rochester - Simon Business School (2001 — 2006)
• Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1995 — 1999)

Areas of Expertise

Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Econometric Analysis, Game Theory, Operations-Marketing-Economics Interface

Publications

“Managing Opportunistic Returns in Retail Operations” with M.S. Altug and Tolga Aydinliyim. 2020. Management Science (Forthcoming).

“The Effect of Sales Assistance on Purchase Decisions: An analysis using retail video data” with Sanjog Misra and Nils Rudi. 2020. Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 18, 273-303.

“Slow first, fast later: Temporal speed-up in service episodes of finite duration” with Sarang Deo. 2019. Production and Operations Management, 8(5), 1061-1081 (Lead article).

“Forecasting Sales in the Supply Chain: Consumer Analytics in the Big Data Era” with Tonya Boone, Ram Ganeshan and Nada Sanders. 2019. International Journal of Forecasting, 35(1), 170-180.

“Differentiated or Integrated: Capacity and Service Level Choice for Differentiated Products” with Ram Bala. 2018. European Journal of Operational Research, 266(3), 1025-1037.

“Responding to shipment delays: The roles of operational flexibility & lead-time visibility” (Single authored). 2017. Decision Sciences. 49(2), 306-334.

“Should Firms Conceal Information When Dealing with Common Suppliers?” with Milind Sohoni. 2016. Naval Research Logistics, 62(1), 1-15 (Lead Article).

“Demand Estimation and Ordering under Censoring: Stock-out Timing is (almost) all you need” with Nils Rudi and Tong Wang. 2015. Operations Research, 63(1), 134-150.

“Differential Pricing Mechanism for Vertical Information Sharing under Horizontal Competition” with Sridhar Seshadri and Milind Sohoni. 2011. Production and Operations Management, 20(2), 235-252.

“Periodic Review Inventory Management with Contingent Use of Two Freight Modes with Fixed Costs” with Harry Groenevelt and Nils Rudi. 2011. Naval Research Logistics, 58(4), 400-409.

“Continuous Review Inventory Model with Dynamic Use of Two Freight Modes with Fixed Costs” with Harry Groenevelt and Nils Rudi. 2010. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 12(1), 120-139.