Kannan Sethuraman

Kannan Sethuraman joined Melbourne Business School in 2001 as an Associate Professor of Operations Management.

Upon completing his PhD at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Kannan held associate and assistant professorial roles at the Indian Institute of Management and Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Kannan’s research has been published in renowned journals, including in the Management Science, INFORMS Journal of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and more.

Kannan has received extensive teaching accolades in Australia and overseas and lectures Managing Processes and Supply Chain Management in the MBA, Executive MBA, Senior Executive MBA and Master of Business Analytics programs.

Qualifications:

• PhD, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
• Am, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
• PGdm, Indian Institute of Management
• BTech (Hons), Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Specialisation:

• Operations

Topics:

• Green Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, Supply Chain Ethics, Theory Of Constraints, Six Sigma Operations, Toyota Production System

Most Notable Awards

Recipient of Teaching Excellence Award from the full-time MBA graduating class, Melbourne Business School 2003, 2006, 2010, 2013 and 2015.

Recipient of Teaching Excellence Award from the part-time MBA graduating class, Melbourne Business School 2007 and 2008.Recipient of Teaching Excellence Award from the Senior Executive MBA graduating class Melbourne Business School 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Recipient of the 1996 BBA Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, 1996.Recipient of Best Paper Prize for ‘Is sustainability worth the effort? Relationship between sustainability practices and financial performance of firms’, Lam, J, Singh, P & Sethuraman, K at the Ninth ANZAM Operations, Supply Chain and Services Management Symposium, 2011.