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.

Selected Publications

Alan, Yasin; Gaur, Vishal. "Operational Investment and Capital Structure Under Asset-Based Lending"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 20.4 (2018): 601-800
Akkas, Arzum; Gaur, Vishal; Simchi-Levi, David. "Drivers of Product Expiration in Consumer Packaged Goods Retailing"Management Science. 65.5 (2019): 1949-2443
Fisher, Marshall; Gaur, Vishal; Kleinberger, Herb. "Curing the Addiction to Growth: Lessons from the Retail Industry"Harvard Business Review. 95.1 (2017): 66 - 74
Osadchiy, Nikolay; Gaur, Vishal; Seshadri, Sridhar. "Systematic Risk in Supply Chain Networks"Management Science. 62.6 (2016): 1755 - 1777
Lee, JoonKyum; Gaur, Vishal; Muthulingam, Suresh; Swisher, Gary. "Stockout-Based Substitution and Inventory Planning in Textbook Retailing"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 18.1 (2016): 104-121
Kesavan, S.; Kushwaha, V.; Gaur, Vishal. "Do High and Low Inventory Turnover Retailers Respond Differently to Demand Shocks?"Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 18.2 (2016): 198-215
Schmidt, William; Gaur, Vishal; Lai, Richard; Raman, Ananth. "Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model"Production and Operations Management. 24.3 (2015): 383-401
Gaur, Vishal; Kesavan, S.; Raman, A. "Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine"California Management Review. 56.2 (2014): 55-76
Alan, Yasin; Gao, George; Gaur, Vishal. "Does Inventory Productivity Predict Future Stock Returns? A Retailing Industry Perspective"Management Science. 60.10 (2014): 2416-2434
Gaur, Vishal; Osadchiy, Nikolay; Seshadri, Sridhar. "Sales Forecasting with Financial Indicators and Experts' Input"Production and Operations Management. 22.5 (2013): 1056-1076

Awards and Honors

Core Faculty Award (2017) Johnson Cornell Tech Class of 2017
The Core Faculty Award (2015) Johnson Graduate School of Management
Best Paper Award Runner Up (2014) M&SOM iFORM SIG
Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award (2006) POMS
George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (2001) INFORMS

Recent Courses

NBA 6850 - Digital Business Operations
NMI 5000 - Directed Reading and Research
NBA 6550 - Introduction to SQL and Tableau
NCCT 5080 - Managing Operations
NBA 5200 - Retail Operations

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