Management Science Department
Faculty Profile
Sanjay Ahire
Professor Management Science DepartmentContact Information Phone: (803) 777-2647 Ahire@moore.sc.edu |
Sanjay L. Ahire (Ph.D., The University of Alabama, 1992) has joined Moore School of Business as a tenured professor in the management science department effective Fall 2006. He comes from the University of Dayton (Ohio) where he taught as a professor of operations management. He holds a Ph.D. in management science from the University of Alabama (1992). He also holds a master’s degree in management studies (1985) and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering (1982) from the University of Bombay (India).
Dr. Ahire's research interests include conceptual and empirical analysis for operations and business process improvement strategies, including lean, six-sigma, business process reengineering, and supply chain optimization. He has conducted descriptive and prescriptive research and has also undertaken research to identify linkages among various strategies and approaches to improving operations and processes. Finally, he has put his teaching and research into practice through numerous applied research projects. Dr. Ahire has published numerous research articles in various journals, including Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Interfaces, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. His research has been well-cited and used by researchers and practicing executives. His 1996 article in Decision Sciences Journal has been recognized as the second most cited article in that journal in the last 35 years.
Dr. Ahire is also an accomplished teacher and professional advisor of operations improvement strategies and techniques. He has received the 2002 Wickham SkinnerAward for Teaching Innovation Achievements from the Production and Operations Management Society, the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Dayton, and the 2005 Teaching Excellence Award from the Southwestern Ohio Council on Higher Education. These awards have been based on his ability to link teaching and students in his operations management classes with real-world consulting projects in a wide range of manufacturing and service firms. For example, during his last appointment with the University of Dayton, he led the development of a state-of-the-art program in operations management at the University of Dayton, and managed actual operations/business process improvement consulting student projects of the program that identified potential savings in excess of 15 million dollars in the client firms.
Dr. Ahire has served on the editorial review boards of Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and Quality Management Journal. He was also the track chair for the teaching innovations track for the national annual conferences of the Production and Operations Management Society (Chicago, April 2005) and Decision Sciences Institute (San Francisco, November 2005).
Education
- Ph.D, The University of Alabama, 1992
- M.M.B. University of Bombay, India, 1985
- B. Chem., University of Bombay, India, 1982
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