Professor Shantanu Bhattacharya

About Shantanu Bhattacharya

Shantanu is Professor of Operations Management at SMU, Associate Dean of MBA, EMBA and DBA Programmes and Academic Director of the EMBA, DBA and DINN Programmes.

Previously, he was Associate Professor of Operations Management at SMU and INSEAD. He holds a PhD in Operations Management from the University of Texas at Austin.

His teaching and research interests are in the areas of supply chain management, innovation and new product development, project management, services management, data analytics, design thinking, business model innovation and change management. He has consulted for GSK, IBM, Pepperl Fuchs, MAS Holdings and other firms and consortia, and has served on the advisory board and taught executive development programmes for many firms.

He has been recognized for his excellence in teaching and has won the Best Professor award in the SMU Executive Education Division in 2017, in the IE-SMU MBA programme in 2017, and has been nominated for the Best Core Professor at INSEAD twice, and has been on the Deans List of Teaching at SMU in 2016 and 2017. His research has been published in top business journals in different disciplines.