Selected Presentations
Chakravarty, A. (Presenter & Author), POMS International Meeting, "Responding to Supply Disruptions in Disasters,” POMS, Hong Kong. (December 2009).
Chakravarty, A. (Presenter & Author), POMS national meeting, "Disaster-Disruption Recovery with Information Asymmetry,” POMS, Orlando, Florida. (March 2009).
Chakravarty, A. (Presenter & Author), ISDSI meeting, "Responsive Supply Chains,” DSI Institute, Mumbai, India. (January 2009).
Chakravarty, A. (Presenter & Author), INFORMS National Meeting, "Real Time Recovery in Disaster-Disruptions," INFORMS, Washington, DC.
Chakravarty, A. (Presenter & Author), Parker, G. (Author Only), POMS International Conference, "Supplier Aggregation in an Online Marketplace," POMS, Tokyo, Japan.
Chakravarty, A. (Presenter & Author), Distinguished Faculty Seminar, "Offshore Business Process Outsourcing," Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria.
Chakravarty, A. (Presenter & Author), Zhang, J. (Presenter & Author), INFORMS National Meeting, "Collaboration in Contingent Capacity with Information Asymmetry," INFORMS, Seattle.
“Research in Supply Chain Management,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, July 2007.
“Online Collaboration for Disaster Relief,” POMS National Conference, Dallas, May 2007.
“Supply Chain Business Models and Collaboration,” Asian School of Business, India, January 2007.
“Telecommunication Supply Chain: Issues and Business Models,” Society for Operations Management conference, Indian Institute of Management, Ahemadabad, December, 2006.
“Offshore business process outsourcing,” INFORMS annual meeting, Pittsburgh, November 2006.
“Telecom portals: strategic interactions and value flow analysis,” EURO XXI, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2006 (with A. Werner).
“Telecommunication Portal Model,” INFORMS conference on Telecom, Dallas, March, 2006 (with Adrian Werner).
“Telecommunication Value chain,” University College, Dublin, Ireland, 2005.
“Designing an Online Marketplace for Supplier Aggregation and Integration,” INFORMS national meeting, San Francisco, 2005 (with G. Parker).
“Price Setting and Price Discovery Strategies with a Mix of Frequent and Infrequent Internet Users,” INFORMS national meeting, San Francisco, 2005 (with S. Banerjee).
“Collaboration in Complementary Capacity with Information Asymmetry,” INFORMS national meeting, Denver, 2004 (with J. Zhang).
“B2B Information Sharing: access-technology and Supply Chain Decisions,” Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, India, 2004.
“Real Time B2B Information Sharing with Uncertainties,” International EuromaPoms conference, Lake Como, Italy, 2003.
“Designing a Digital Marketplace for Supplier Aggregation,” INFORMS conference, Atlanta, 2003.
“B2B Collaboration: Economic Value and Investment in Technology,” ICEB conference, Singapore, 2003.
“Collaboration in E-business and Supply Chains,” ICORD conference, Chennai, India, December, 2002.
"Collaboration in E-Business: Business Models and Technology Enablers," invited semi plenary, International Federation of Operations Research Societies conference, Edinburgh, UK, July 2002.
“Economic Value and Investment in B2B Collaboration,” Invited Seminar, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India, 2002.
“B2B Collaboration,” APRICOT International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2002.
“E-Marketplaces: Economics and Strategy,” Invited Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 2002.
“A model of Business Education: The International PhD,” invited paper, POMS annual meeting, San Francisco, March 2002.
“Models of Collaboration in E-business,” Invited Seminar, INFOSYS Corporation, Bangalore, India, 2002.
“Collaborative E-commerce,” Invited Seminar, University of Science, Penang, Malaysia, 2002.
“Lateral Capacity Collaboration and Pricing,” Invited paper, INFORMS international conference, Maui, June 2001.
“Flexibility: Manufacturing, Supply Chains, and E-business,” Invited paper, INFORMS international conference, Maui, June 2001.
“Electronic Chains of Suppliers and Customers,” Invited Tutorial, POMS National Meeting, San Antonio, March 2000.
“The Digital Business Community,” Invited Tutorial, INFORMS conference, San Antonio, October, 2000.
“Models of Aggregation and Integration in eMarketplaces,” Invited Seminar, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Industry and Academic Experience
Professor Chakravarty previously held the A. B. Freeman Chair in Business at the A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University. He has considerable experience in the auto and telecommunication industries and has worked with companies such as General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Lucent Technologies, Rockwell International, and Kearney and Trekker.
Professional Services
Professor Chakravarty is department editor for the Journal Production and Operations Management. He is also on the editorial board of IIE Transactions and serves as an associate editor for Opsearch and Decision Sciences. He was a vice president for Production and Operations Management Society, and the General Chair for INFORMS National Meeting. He organized a special industry-university symposium on global operations management, and has been track chair at INFORMS and POMS meetings.
Recent Press
“Success or not, Wal-Mart will be a change agent in India” Business Online, Jan 11, 2007. “Lack of facilities such as transportation and large space requirements coupled with a need to understand customer behavior will come in the way of Wal-Mart's success in India. But the retail behemoth could act as change agent by creating new benchmarks for suppliers. This was how Prof Amiya Chakravarty, Philip R. McDonald Chair Professor in Operations and Technology Management at North Eastern University, Boston, assessed the chances of the `Beast of Bentonville', as it readied to test the waters in India through a tie-up with the Bharti Group.”
Mailing Address
Amiya K. Chakravarty
214 Hayden Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5000