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Ravi Aron
Assistant Professor of Information and Operations Management

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-8080
arunkund@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, MPhil, New York University; MBA, Indian Institute of Management; BA, Osmania University

Overview

Ravi Aron studies outsourcing and global sourcing of services and business processes, with an emphasis on China, India, Mauritius, and Singapore. His research has been published in Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, and Harvard Business Review. Professor Aron was awarded a Sloan Industry Fellowship and the Herman E. Kross Doctoral Dissertation Award. Prior to joining USC in 2006, he was on the faculty of the Wharton School, where he won teaching awards at the undergraduate and MBA level.

Research

A Model of Market Power and Efficiency in Private Electronic Exchanges • 2008
Monitoring Process Quality in Offshore Outsourcing: A Model and Findings from Multi-Country Survey • 2008
Impact of Internet-Based Distributed Monitoring Systems on Off-Shore Sourcing of Services • 2007
Intelligent Agents in Electronic Markets for Information Goods: Customization, Preference Revelation and Pricing • 2006
Determinants of Operational Risk in Global Sourcing of Financial Services • 2006
Getting Offshoring Right • 2005
Just Right Outsourcing: Understanding and Managing Strategic Risk • 2005
Group-Buying On The Web: A Comparison Of Price Discovery Mechanisms • 2003
Achieving the Optimal Balance Between Investment In Quality and Investment in Self-Promotion for Information Products • 2001
An Economic Analysis of Electronic Secondary Markets: Installed Base, Technology, Durability and Firm Profitability • 1998
Forward Aggregation in Electronic B2B Markets: Model and Experimental Findings
Global Inovation in Offshoring of Financial Services
Towards a 24 Hour Knowledge Factory, A Prognosis For Research
Information Market For Product Attributes: A Game Theoretic, Dual Pricing Mechanism
Quality,Incentives and InspectionRegimes Service Supply Chains: Theoretical Predictions Behavioral Outcomes
Inspection Regimes And Incentives in Offshore Service Production: Theory and Evidence
Determinants Of Operational Risk & Effectiveness of Instruments of Governance In Off-Shore Outsourcing Of Business Process: Evidence From Field Research
The Information Deficit in Electronic Markets
Off-Shore Outsourcing of Services: The Impact of Process Complexity on Productivity, Risk and Governance Structures
Monitoring Precision in Outsourcing Contracts with Output Verification Costs
Value Hierarchy Index and Operational Risk in Outsourcing Business Processes
Offshore Sourcing of Services: The Extended Organizational Form and the IT-Enabled Right Sourcing of Processes ? An Empirical Study
The Value Hierarchy Index: An Approach To Measuring Operational Risk In Outsourcing Business Processes