Medini Singh

Biography

Professor Medini Singh joined Columbia Business School in 2001 as a member of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division.   He teaches a variety of courses in Columbia’s MBA and Executive MBA programs, including the core course in Operations Management and electives in Supply Chain Management, Operations Strategy, and Service Operations Management.  He also teaches regularly in executive education programs in top institutions in U.S., China, India and Latin America.  Graduating MBA students selected him as the winner of the Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom in 2015 for his dedication to teaching and ability to communicate knowledge.  In 2011, he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Business School.  Professor Singh has also taught at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he won the Teacher of the Year Award in 1991.  He has also held visiting professorships at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Professor Singh is a member of the advisory board for the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness. His research focuses on service and supply chain design, at both the tactical and strategic level. Recently, he has been interested in the role of speed in competitiveness and in the risks and rewards of process outsourcing and off-shoring. His articles have appeared in leading journals, including Operations Research, Management Science, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has served as associate editor of IIE Transactions and Production and Operations Management and on the editorial board of several journals, including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. He has also served as thesis advisor for a number of master’s and doctoral students.

Professor Singh holds a B.E. in industrial engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India) and an M.E. in mechanical engineering, an M.S. in manufacturing and operations systems and a Ph.D. in industrial administration, all from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He has consulted for several Fortune 500 companies and has received research grants from a number of governmental and private funding agencies, including National Science Foundation, Electric Power Research Institute, GM Advanced Engineering and Whirlpool Foundation. He was the recipient of the Best Dissertation Award from Production and Operations Management Society (1990) and the IBM Manufacturing Research Fellowship from IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center (1988-1990).

Teaching

Spring 2018

Supply Chain Management (MBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)
Supply Chain Management (EMBA)

Fall 2017

Service Operations Management (MBA)
Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Service Operations Management (EMBA)
Technology and Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Global Immersion: Doing Business in Brazil - Challenges & Opportunities (MBA)

Summer 2017

Operations Strategy (MBA)
Retailing Strategy and Operations (EMBA)

Spring 2017

Supply Chain Management (EMBA)
Supply Chain Management (MBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)
Global Immersion: Doing Business in Brazil - Challenges & Opportunities (MBA)

Fall 2016

Service Operations Management (MBA)
Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Service Operations Management (EMBA)
Technology and Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Service Operations Management (MBA)

Summer 2016

International Seminar: Milan (EMBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)

Spring 2016

Supply Chain Management (MBA)
Supply Chain Management (EMBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)

Fall 2015

Service Operations Management (MBA)
Global Immersion: The Brazilian Growth Model (MBA)
Service Operations Management (EMBA)
Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Service Operations Management (MBA)

Summer 2015

International Seminar Greece (EMBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)
Technology and Operations Strategy (EMBA)

Spring 2015

Operations Strategy (MBA)
Supply Chain Management (MBA)
Supply Chain Management (EMBA)

Fall 2014

Service Operations Management (MBA)
Technology and Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Service Operations Management (EMBA)

Summer 2014

Technology and Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)
Service Operations Management (EMBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)

Spring 2014

Supply Chain Management (MBA)
Supply Chain Management (EMBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)

Fall 2013

Service Operations Management (MBA)
Technology and Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Service Operations Management (EMBA)

Summer 2013

Operations Strategy (MBA)
Technology and Operations Strategy (EMBA)

Spring 2013

Operations Strategy (MBA)
Supply Chain Management (EMBA)
Supply Chain Management (MBA)

Fall 2012

Service Operations Management (EMBA)
Technology and Operations Strategy (EMBA)
Service Operations Management (MBA)

Summer 2012

Operations Strategy (MBA)

Spring 2012

Operations Strategy (MBA)
Supply Chain Management (EMBA)
Supply Chain Management (MBA)
Operations Strategy (MBA)

Columbia Caseworks cases

Robtec (2016)
Coauthor(s): Nelson M. Fraiman, Angela M. Quintero, Maria J. Quinteros, Medini Singh

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Detroit Motors Inc. (2009)
Coauthor(s): Medini Singh

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Consumer Powers, Inc. (2008)
Coauthor(s): Medini Singh

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Zara (2008)
Coauthor(s): Nelson M. Fraiman , Medini Singh, Carolyn Paris, Linda Arrington

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Lolita S.A. Managing Company Growth (2008)
Coauthor(s): Nelson M. Fraiman, Medini Singh, Natalia Yankovic

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Research

Journal articles

Optimal variance structures and performance improvement of synchronous assembly lines In Operations Research (1999)
Coauthor(s): Steven Erlebacher, Medini Singh

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Optimal production policies for multi-stage systems with setup costs and uncertain capacities In Management Science (1998)
Coauthor(s): Juhwen Hwang, Medini Singh

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Centralized bakery reduces distribution costs using simulation In Interfaces (1998)
Coauthor(s): Sampath Rajagopalan, Medini Singh, Thomas Morton, Ephraim Martin, IV

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Optimal updating of forecasts for the timing of future events In Management Science (1998)
Coauthor(s): Juhwen Hwang, Medini Singh, W. Hurley, Robert Shumsky

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Capacity expansion and replacement in growing markets with uncertain technological breakthroughs In Management Science (1998)
Coauthor(s): Sampath Rajagopalan, Medini Singh, Thomas Morton

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Part dispatch in random yield multistage flexible test systems for printed circuit boards In Operations Research (1992)
Coauthor(s): Ram Akella, Sampath Rajagopalan, Medini Singh

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Efficient computation of coordinating controls in hierarchical structures for failure-prone multi-cell flexible assembly systems In IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation (1990)
Coauthor(s): Ram Akella, B. Krogh, Medini Singh

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