Vishal Gaur

Vishal Gaur

  • Professor
  • Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Faculty Expertise

  • Operations Management
  • Quantitative Modeling
  • Business Analytics
  • Supply Chain Management

Contact

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

607.255.6418

vg77@cornell.edu

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Biography

Vishal Gaur is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and professor of operations, technology, and information management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Gaur earned his PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (2001), an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (1995), and a BTech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (1993).

As associate dean for MBA programs from 2014 to 2019, Gaur launched the Digital Technology Immersion, in which MBA candidates and students earning their MPS in data science or applied statistics develop skills in coding, databases, and advanced analytics, and learn to leverage them to tackle challenges faced by leading companies.

Gaur also created and served as the program director for the Master of Science in Business Analytics program offered through eCornell, which provides working professionals a hands-on opportunity to learn about data analytics tools essential to analyzing and optimizing business decisions.

Gaur's research focuses on data-driven analysis of problems in supply chains, retailing, ecommerce, and marketplace operations. His work was recognized with the Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award from the Production and Operations Management Society in 2006. He served as a department editor for Management Science from 2014 to 2021. His current projects involve the reduction of food waste and supply chain risk. He teaches graduate courses in operations management, digital business and retail operations, and data analysis.

Gaur is the 2022 recipient of the Class of 1992 Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2020 recipient of the Stephen Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, a three-time winner of the Johnson School's Core Faculty Award, the Cornell-Tsinghua Dual Degree MBA Gravitas Award in 2021, the Johnson Cornell Tech Core Faculty Award by the graduating class of 2017, and honorable mention in the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Competition in 2001.

Well-known among students for the care and attention he gives to his teaching, he currently teaches the Semester in Strategic Operations immersion course, where MBA students go on site visits and work on client projects in topics such as industry 4.0, traceability, and sales and operations planning.

Before joining SC Johnson, he was an assistant professor at the NYU Stern School of Business from 2001 to 2007 and a visiting associate professor at Harvard Business School from 2007 to 2008.

Selected Publications

Awards and Honors

  • Class of 1992 Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching (2022) Second-Year MBA Students
  • Stephen Russell '60, MBA '61 Distinguished Teaching Award (2020) Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
  • Core Faculty Award (2017) Johnson Cornell Tech Class of 2017
  • Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award (2006) POMS
  • George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (2001) INFORMS

Academic Degrees

  • PhD The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
  • MA The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
  • MBA Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1995
  • Btech Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1993