Harihara Prasad Natarajan

Hari Natarajan is Professor of Management and Vice Dean of Business Programs at the Miami Herbert Business School. Previously, he served as the Academic Director of MHBS’ Global Executive MBA program. Hari received his undergraduate degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and MS and PhD degrees (with dual titles in Business Administration and Operations Research) from the Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business, where he won the Alumni Association Award for his doctoral dissertation.

Hari’s research develops and applies optimization models to support practical decision-making in supply chains and service networks. He has worked on collaborative research projects with several companies including Armstrong, Capital One, Corning, Florida Panthers, Intcomex, and Uponor Aldyl. He has also been a technical advisor for analytics firms such as Marketics and LatentView, and serves as a non-executive director on the board of MetaCorp. His research has appeared in top journals and has won awards including the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Transactions Best Paper Award. His work has been supported by the eBusiness Research Center and the Center for Supply Chain Research at Penn State, the Center for International Business Education and Research, and the James W. McLamore Award (now Provost’s Research Award) at the University of Miami.

Hari is a Senior Editor of the Production and Operations Management Journal and Associate Editor of the Decision Sciences Journal and is the President of the South Florida chapter of INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences).

At the Miami Herbert Business School, Hari teaches courses on operations and supply chain management at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels, and has been recognized for teaching excellence by cohorts of the Executive MBA program.