Dr. Karthik Ramachandran

Biography

Karthik Ramachandran is the Dunn Family Professor of Operations Management at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business. His research explores the operational and organizational drivers of entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on product design, technology management, and operations strategy. He develops analytical models that are complemented by case-based, experimental, and empirical methods to study how firms successfully commercialize innovations. His work has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and the Journal of Operations Management. In addition to his research, Karthik teaches courses on New Product Development, Collaborative Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, and actively mentors startups through the CREATE-X initiative. He holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain & Operations Management and an M.S. in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.

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