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Sampath Rajagopalan
Professor of Data Sciences and Operations

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

Phone: 
213-740-0193
raj@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, MS, Carnegie Mellon University; MBA, Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad; BTech, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Overview

Raj Rajagopalan's research covers capacity and technology acquisition, supply chain management, and product variety and its impact on operations performance. He has published in journals such as Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and Operations Research. He served as a Department Editor at IIE Transactions, Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management, and as an Associate Editor at Management Science and Operations Research. Professor Rajagopalan has consulted for Johnson and Johnson, Fidelity Investments, and Hewlett Packard. He has taught courses in operations and supply chain management in the MBA and Executive MBA programs.

Research

Speed Quality Tradeoffs in a Dynamic Model (forthcoming in MSOM) • 2013
Pricing and Operational Performance in Discretionary Services (forthcoming in POM) • 2013
Revenue Sharing and Information Leakage in a Supply Chain • 2013
Serving Heterogeneous Customers Through Price and Quality Differentiation • 2012
Impact of Variety and Distribution System Characteristics on Inventory Levels at US Retailers • 2012
Product Variety, Pricing and Differentiation in a Supply Chain • 2011
A Competitive Model of Customization with Lead Time Effects • 2009
Capacity Planning: Issues and Models • 2009
Standard versus custom products: variety, lead time and price competition • 2009
A multi-period model of inventory competition • 2009
Inventory Models for Substitutable Products: Optimal Policies and Heuristics • 2008
Coordination Issues in vendor managed inventory systems • 2008
Process Improvement Investments and Learning: A Real Options Approach • 2008
Make - to - Stock or Make - to - Order: Model and Application • 2002
A Coordinated Production Planning Model with Capacity Expansion and Inventory Management • 2001
A Capacity Planning Model with Congestion Costs • 2001
Have Inventories Declined in the U.S.: An Empirical Study • 2001
Adoption Timing of a New Equipment with Another Innovation Anticipated • 1999
Capacity Expansion and Equipment Replacement: A Unified Approach • 1998
Process Improvement, Quality and Learning Effects • 1998
Capacity Expansion and Replacement with Uncertain Technological Breakthroughs • 1998
A Learning Curve Model with Knowledge Depreciation • 1997
The Impact of Quality on Learning: An Empirical Study • 1997
Retail stocking decisions with Order and Stock Sales • 1994
Allocation and Routing of Mobile Computer Tomography Equipment • 1994
Capacity Acquisition and Disposal with Discrete Facility Sizes • 1994
Capacity Expansion and Equipment Replacement: A Unified Approach Proceeedings of the first ORSA TECMAN Conference, • 1994
Capacity Expansion with Alternate Technology Choices • 1994
A Production Planning and Scheduling System at an Environmental Laboratory • 1993
Flexible versus Dedicated Technology: A Capacity Expansion Model • 1993
Scheduling of Diagnostic Imaging Equipment among Hospitals • 1993
A Note on an Efficient Zero-One Formulation of the Multi-level Lot-Sizing Problem • 1992
Deterministic Capacity Expansion under Deterioration • 1992
Part Dispatch in Random Yield Multistage Test Systems • 1992
A Logistics Analysis at Heinz • 1990
Adoption timing of Improved Technology under Uncertainty • 1990
SCHED-STAR: Patriarch's Planning Module • 1988
Formulation and heuristic solutions for parts grouping and tool loading in flexible manufacturing systems • 1986
Part dispatch in multistage card lines • 1986