Santa Clara University

Naren Agrawal

Associate Professor of OMIS

Dr. Narendra Agrawal is an associate professor of OMIS, and has been a visiting associate professor at the Wharton School of Business. He also worked as Systems Analyst with Tata Consultancy Services in Bombay, India.

Professor Agrawal teaches courses in supply chain management, operations management, computer based decision models, and manufacturing competitiveness in the MBA and executive MBA programs. His research interests include supply chain management, sourcing strategy, design and analysis of distribution systems, and manufacturing competitiveness. His research has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, and the Journal of Retailing. He has also contributed chapters in a number of books on supply chain management, and recently co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review, "Winning in the Aftermarket" (HBS November 2006).

He serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and Journal of Production and Operations Management. Naren is a research faculty associate of the Retail Workbench at Santa Clara University, and a member of INFORMS.

He is the recipient of the Dean's award for extraordinary research, teaching and service, and the Dean's award for teaching innovation. He also received the Breetwor Fellowship, which is awarded to tenured faculty members who have distinguished themselves as teaching scholars and are making notable service contributions to the School, the University, and the profession.

He has conducted numerous management development seminars and consulted with companies such as Adaptec, Applied Materials, Conceptus, The Gap, Hewlett Packard, IBM, MCA Solutions, Pemex, Redistributors of America, Inc., and Schlumberger.