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13 Facts About Kalyan Singhal

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Kalyan Singhal is an Indian American engineering and economics scientist, historian of science and technology, and editor.

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Kalyan Singhal is the Doris E and Robert V McCurdy Distinguished Professor of Management at the Robert G Merrick School of Business.

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Kalyan Singhal is the founding editor-in-chief of Production and Operations Management and the founding president of the Production and Operations Management Society.

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In 2004 Kalyan Singhal was elected fellow of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and of the Production and Operations Management Society.

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Kalyan Singhal received his doctorate in business from Kent State University and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

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Kalyan Singhal is married to Jaya Asthana Kalyan Singhal, currently the Frank Baker Chair for Research Excellence at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore.

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Kalyan Singhal served on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore from 1974 to 1977, where he founded the Department of Production and Operations Management.

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Kalyan Singhal is currently a Distinguished Professor of Management at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore.

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In 1989, Kalyan Singhal founded the Production and Operations Management Society dedicated to the creation and dissemination of knowledge in operations and supply chain management.

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Kalyan Singhal established the society's journal, Production and Operations Management in 1992 and has served as its editor-in-chief since.

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Kalyan Singhal recently established the Management and Business Review, intended to be a rival to the Harvard Business Review, and serves as co-editor in chief along with Wallace Hopp and Christopher Ittner, on which occasion Forbes interviewed Kalyan Singhal.

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Kalyan Singhal's op-eds have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, India Abroad, The Hindu, and the Hindustan Times, and commentaries have appeared in BusinessWeek, The Economist, and The Washington Post.

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Kalyan Singhal is an elected fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and the Production and Operations Management Society.