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Medini Singh

Senior Lecturer in Discipline in Business
Decision, Risk, and Operations Division
Medini Singh
Contact
Office: 1193 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
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Curriculum Vitae

Professor Medini Singh joined Columbia Business School in 2001 as a member of the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division.   He teaches a variety of courses in Columbia’s MBA and Executive MBA programs, including the core course in Operations Management and electives in Supply Chain Management, Operations Strategy, and Service Operations Management.  He also teaches regularly in executive education programs in top institutions in U.S., China, India and Latin America.  Graduating MBA students selected him as the winner of the Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom in 2015 for his dedication to teaching and ability to communicate knowledge.  In 2011, he received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Business School.  Professor Singh has also taught at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he won the Teacher of the Year Award in 1991.  He has also held visiting professorships at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Professor Singh is a member of the advisory board for the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness. His research focuses on service and supply chain design, at both the tactical and strategic level. Recently, he has been interested in the role of speed in competitiveness and in the risks and rewards of process outsourcing and off-shoring. His articles have appeared in leading journals, including Operations Research, Management Science, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has served as associate editor of IIE Transactions and Production and Operations Management and on the editorial board of several journals, including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. He has also served as thesis advisor for a number of master’s and doctoral students.

Professor Singh holds a B.E. in industrial engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India) and an M.E. in mechanical engineering, an M.S. in manufacturing and operations systems and a Ph.D. in industrial administration, all from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He has consulted for several Fortune 500 companies and has received research grants from a number of governmental and private funding agencies, including National Science Foundation, Electric Power Research Institute, GM Advanced Engineering and Whirlpool Foundation. He was the recipient of the Best Dissertation Award from Production and Operations Management Society (1990) and the IBM Manufacturing Research Fellowship from IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center (1988-1990).

Education
BE, Roorkee, India, 1983; ME, Carnegie Mellon, 1986; MS, 1988; PhD, 1990
Joined CBS
2001

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Journal Article
Erlebacher, Steven and Medini Singh
. “Optimal variance structures and performance improvement of synchronous assembly lines.”
Operations Research
vol.
47
, (January 01, 1999):
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618
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Journal Article
Hwang, Juhwen and Medini Singh
. “Optimal production policies for multi-stage systems with setup costs and uncertain capacities.”
Management Science
vol.
44
, (September 01, 1998):
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1294
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Journal Article
Rajagopalan, Sampath, Medini Singh , Thomas Morton, and Ephraim Martin, IV
. “Centralized bakery reduces distribution costs using simulation.”
Interfaces
vol.
28
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46
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Journal Article
Hwang, Juhwen, Medini Singh , W. Hurley, and Robert Shumsky
. “Optimal updating of forecasts for the timing of future events.”
Management Science
vol.
44
, (March 01, 1998):
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335
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Journal Article
Rajagopalan, Sampath, Medini Singh , and Thomas Morton
. “Capacity expansion and replacement in growing markets with uncertain technological breakthroughs.”
Management Science
vol.
44
, (January 01, 1998):
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30
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Journal Article
Akella, Ram, Sampath Rajagopalan, and Medini Singh
. “Part dispatch in random yield multistage flexible test systems for printed circuit boards.”
Operations Research
vol.
40
, (January 01, 1992):
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789
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Journal Article
Akella, Ram, B. Krogh, and Medini Singh
. “Efficient computation of coordinating controls in hierarchical structures for failure-prone multi-cell flexible assembly systems.”
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
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6
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Course
B7108: Supply Chain Management
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Course
B8106: Operations Strategy
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Course
B8107: Service Operations Management
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Course
B7107: Service Operations Management
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Course
B7106: Operations Strategy
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Course
B8714: Global Immersion: Doing Business in Brazil - Challenges & Opportunities
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Course
B8777: Global Immersion: Philippines: Asia's Rising Tiger
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In the Media

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  • CaseWorks
Case ID
80210

Consumer Powers, Inc.

How much power should an electric company purchase from an independent producer to meet demand?

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Case ID
90204

Detroit Motors Inc.

How should a manager of facilities planning anticipate demand and make decisions about capacity investment?

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Case ID
80202

Lolita S.A. Managing Company Growth

After turning to franchising as a way to stave off bankruptcy, should the CEO of an upscale Uruguayan clothing chain expand its franchise program or consider other options?

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Case ID
80204

Zara

Can a clothing retailer famous for local, in-season production take advantage of lower wage costs abroad without hindering its competitive advantage?

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