Uday Karmarkar
(310) 825-6500 tel
uday.karmarkar@anderson.ucla.edu


Uday Karmarkar is the LA Times Professor of Technology and Strategy and the Research Director at the Center for Management in the Information Economy at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

In his role as Research Director of CMIE, Dr. Karmarkar guides the center as it promotes and shares applied research on all management aspects of the information economy and creates and conducts educational programs and seminars for business students as well as the business community.

In addition to teaching courses in the school's MBA program on technology management and management issues in the new economy, Dr. Karmarkar is also the faculty director for several executive education programs focusing on management in the information economy. These include the highly-regarded "Gaining the E-business Advantage," as well as "E-business Edge," a custom program for PriceWaterhouseCoopers developed jointly with five other business schools to train the firm's 9,000 partners and executives on the Internet's implications for business.

Dr. Karmarkar has undertaken consulting and research projects on manufacturing strategy, business processes, supply chain management, industrial marketing, and technology management for a wide array of companies, including Becton Dickinson, Aditya Birla Group, American Cimflex, Deere and Company, Eastman Kodak, Ford, GM, WW Grainger, Hindustan Lever, IBM, Thomson Publishing, and Xerox. He is an advisor to or director of several start-up companies engaged in sectors such as eCRM, ERP, IT-enabled services, on-line and desktop educational systems, advanced decision systems, and data mining software.

He has published over sixty articles and research papers, and was a founding editor of two operations and technology journals and an associate editor or advisory editor of several others.

Dr. Karmarkar previously taught at the Simon School at the University of Rochester and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. His research interests include information-intensive industries, competitive analysis, intelligent management systems, and operations and technology strategy for manufacturing and service firms.

He holds a Ph.D. in management science from the Sloan School of Management at MIT; and a B.Tech. degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (IIT-B). He was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT-B and serves on the school's Advisory Board.


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