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Vishal Gaur

Professor Gaur's research interests lie in retail operations and supply chain management, including topics such as inventory management, product variety, distribution logistics, financial performance of firms, and linking operational performance to financial performance. One of his ongoing projects uses aggregate firm-level data for retailing and manufacturing firms to address questions related to benchmarking inventory turnover, measuring performance improvements, and forecasting future sales. Another project deals with modeling the effect of consumer choice behavior on optimal product assortments and competitive strategies for retailers.

Professor Gaur joined the Johnson School in 2007. Prior to this, he was at NYU Stern School of Business, where he taught the first year MBA course in operations management and an elective course in retail operations. During 2007-2008, he was also a visiting associate professor at Harvard Business School. He was awarded the Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award by Production and Operations Management Society in 2006, and received honorable mention for the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award in 2001. His paper "Hedging Inventory Risk Through Market Instruments" (co-authored with Professor Sridhar Seshadri, University of Texas Austin), published in M&SOM received the 2008 M&SOM Best Paper Award. He serves as an associate editor for Management Science, M&SOM, and POMS.