Vishal Gaur
Associate Dean for MBA Programs
Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management
Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management
Ph.D. in Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests:
Retail operations, Supply chain management
Professor Vishal Gaur is Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management, and professor of operations, technology and information management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research interests lie in the design and optimization of data-driven business models. His current research projects deal with econometric analysis and optimization in retailing, supply chains, and linking operations with financial performance of firms.
Gaur served as associate dean of MBA programs during 2014-2019. He teaches the MBA core course in operations management and MBA elective courses in retail operations and SQL. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching: the Johnson Faculty Research Award in 2012-13; the Clifford H. Whitcomb Faculty Fellowship in 2010-11; the Johnson Core Faculty Award by the graduating classes of 2015, 2012, and 2008; the Johnson Cornell Tech Core Faculty Award by the graduating class of 2017; the Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award by the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) in 2006; and honorable mention in the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Competition in 2001. His co-authored paper, "Hedging Inventory Risk Through Market Instruments," published in the journal Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, received the 2008 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Best Paper Award. He serves as a department editor for Management Science and an associate editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production and Operations Management. Prof. Gaur received his PhD in 2001 from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad in 1995, and his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1993. Before joining Johnson, he was an assistant professor at the NYU Stern School of Business during 2001-07 and a visiting associate professor at Harvard Business School during 2007-08.
The core value of the Cornell-Tsinghua FMBA program is to graduate highly talented,
energetic, dynamic, ambitious and creative business leaders
who not only want to have strong careers for themselves,
but also want to have a positive impact on the world of business and on society.
We want to graduate students who have a global outlook
and who truly think and care about the future of business and our world.
When the Cornell-Tsinghua FMBA program students graduate from our program,
they are graduating with a very strong skillset.
They are also graduating with inside a cohort of very talented
future business leaders.
So one way in which they can grow after graduating
from this program is by maintaining contact with each other
and by continuing to learn from each other.
One more thing I will add is that.
Besides the Cornell-Tsinghua FMBA graduates.
We have many other alumni in China from Cornell and from Johnson.
So these students have a strong alumni network,
that they can grow on and rely on in their own personal journey after graduation.
I very much look forward to teaching the Cornell-Tsinghua FMBA students every year.
And I get excited to go to China to interact with them, to get to know them.
