Moore School of Business - Malhotra Named a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute

Dr. Manoj K. Malhotra , Jeff B. Bates Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Science at the Moore School of Business, has been named a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute in recognition of his "outstanding contributions in the field of Decision Sciences." He is one of only 104 Fellows named since the Institute’s founding in 1968.

The award was presented in Phoenix, Arizona, at the 38th annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), a professional organization of academicians and practitioners interested in the application of quantitative and behavioral methods to the problems of society.

The Institute, based in Atlanta, praised Malhotra for "his many contributions in research, teaching, and service to the Decision Sciences Institute, particularly his influential work focused on the deployment of flexible resources in manufacturing and service firms and on the interface between operations and supply chain management."

Malhotra’s citation continued: "Manoj has authored numerous articles in top-tier journals such as Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. He has also coauthored Operations Management: Processes and Value Chain, 8th edition, in which he was responsible for innovations regarding constraint management, lean systems, and location. The winner of many prestigious teaching awards for this work with international graduate students, Manoj has also supported doctoral students, chairing many doctoral dissertation committees, participating in DSI doctoral student committees, and serving as Feature Editor for Doctoral Student Issues in Decision Line. Dr. Malhotra’s notable service for DSI includes serving as Program Chair of the 36th Annual Meeting in San Francisco."

Malhotra created the Center for Global Supply Chain and Process Management at the Moore School of Business in 2005.

In 2006, Malhotra received the Michael J. Mungo Graduate Teaching Award, which recognizes excellence in graduate teaching on the Columbia campus of the University of South Carolina. He has won numerous other teaching awards, including the Moore School’s Alfred G. Smith, Jr. Teaching Award. Malhotra has been listed in "Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers" on three different occasions.

In 2007, Malhotra won the USC Educational Foundation Award for the Professional Schools, which include the disciplines in the following schools and colleges: Moore School of Business; Education; Hospitality, Retail and Sport Management (HRSM); Law;(University) Libraries, and Mass Communications and Information Studies. This award is the University's most prestigious annual prize for innovative research, scholarship, and creative achievement. Emphasis is placed on the impact that the research has had on the discipline, with a focus on creativity in research rather than on quantity of production.

Malhotra is also a recipient of the Decision Sciences Institute’s Outstanding Achievement Award for the Best Application Paper in 1990, and the Stan Hardy Award in 2002 and 2005 for the best paper published in the field of Operations Management.

Malhotra came to the Moore School in 1990 after earning his Ph.D. in operations management from The Ohio State University. His undergraduate degree is in engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India.

Dr. Robert Markland , associate dean of administration and professor of management science at the Moore School, is also a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute.

Jan Collins
February 2008

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Dr. Malhotra Named a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute