Vish Krishnan
Sheryl and Harvey White Endowed Chair, Innovation, Technology & Operations
Vish Krishnan’s research is focused on technology commercialization, new product development, and technology-enabled product and process innovation. After receiving his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vish served as a Professor and IC2 senior research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the Rady school as one of the founding faculty, and leads the school’s efforts in building the school’s faculty and programs.
Vish is also working to create and coordinate the Rady school’s signature core curriculum course, Lab to Market, that aims to foster new products and ventures from California’s vast scientific and intellectual property assets. Vish Krishnan has been invited to serve in editorial positions at Management Science, M&SOM, POMS, IEEE-EM and other journals, quoted in national publications, and is the recipient of several teaching and research awards, including the Most Valuable Professor award in the executive MBA program in 2009.
Published Articles
Bhaskaran, S. and Krishnan, V., “Effort, Revenue, and Cost Sharing Mechanisms for Collaborative New Product Development,” Management Science, Forthcoming.
Ramachandran, K. and V. Krishnan, “Design Architecture and Introduction Timing for Rapidly Improving Industrial Products,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Forthcoming. 2007.
Bardhan, I. V. Krishnan and S. Lin, "Project Performance and the Enabling Role of Information Technology: An Exploratory Study on the Role of Alignment," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 9, No. 3, (2007).
Krishnan, V. and W. Zhu, “Designing a Family of Development-Intensive Products,” Management Science, Vol. 52, No. 6, (June 2006 Lead article) pp 813-825.
Krishnan, V. and C. Loch, "A Retrospective Look at Production and Operations Management Articles on New Product Development," Production and Operations Management, Vol. 14, Issue 4, (2005), 433-441.
Krishnan, V. and C. Loch, "Introduction to the Special issue: Management of Product Innovation," Production and Operations Management, Editorial Article, 2005.
Sawhney, M., S. Balasubramanian and V. Krishnan, “Creating Growth with Services,” Sloan Management Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, (Winter 2004), 34-43.
Krishnan, V. and S. Bhattacharya, “Technology Selection and Commitment: The Role of Uncertainty and Design Flexibility,” Management Science, Vol. 48, No. 3, (March 2002), 313-327.
Bhattacharya, S., V. Krishnan, and V. Mahajan, “Capturing the Effect of Technology Improvements on Product Positioning and Introduction Sequence Decision Making,” European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 149, (2003) 102-130.
Krishnan, V. and S. Gupta, “Appropriateness and Impact of Platform-Based Product Development,” Management Science, Vol. 47, No. 1, (January 2001), 52-68.
Krishnan, V. and K. Ulrich, “Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature,” Management Science, Vol. 47, No. 1, (January 2001), 1-21.
Gupta, S. and V. Krishnan, “Integrated Component and Supplier Selection For a Product Family,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 8, No. 2, (1999), 163-181.
Krishnan, V., R. Singh, and D. Tirupati, “A Model-Based Approach For Developing a Family of Technology-Based Products,” INFORMS Journal on Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 1, No. 2, (1999), 132-156.
Krishnan, V., “Modeling Ordered Decision Making in Product Development,” European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 111, No. 2, (December 1998), 351-368.
Bhattacharya, S., V. Krishnan, and V. Mahajan, “Managing New Product Definition in Highly Dynamic Environments,” Management Science, Vol. 44, No. 11, (Nov. 1998 Part 2 of 2), S50-S64.
Gupta, S. and V. Krishnan, “Product Family-Based Assembly Sequence Design Methodology,” IIE Transactions, 30, (1998), 933-945.
Krishnan, V., S. D. Eppinger, and D. E. Whitney, “Simplifying Iterations in Cross-Functional Design Decision Making,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 119, (No. 4, December 1997), 485-493.
Krishnan, V., S. D. Eppinger, and D. E. Whitney, “A Model-Based Framework for Overlapping Product Development Activities,” Management Science, vol. 43, (No. 4 April 1997), 437-451.
Kalyanaram, G. and V. Krishnan, “Deliberate Product Definition: Customizing the Product Definition Process,” Journal of Marketing Research, April 1997, Vol. XXXIV, 276.
Krishnan, V., “Managing the Simultaneous Execution of Coupled Tasks in Concurrent Product Development,” IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 43, No. 2, May 1996, 210-217.
Krishnan, V., S. D. Eppinger, and D. E. Whitney, “Accelerating Product Development by the Exchange of Preliminary Information,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 117, (December 1995), 491-498.
Working Papers
Krishnan, V. and K. Ramachandran, “Product Design for Strategic Consumers,” Working Paper, Rady School of Management, May 2008.
Bardhan I., V. Krishnan, and S. Lin, “A Model to Measure the Business Value of Information Technology: The Case of Project and Information Work,” Working Paper, Rady School of Management, October 2005.
Krishnan, V., I. Bardhan, and S. Lin, “Project Performance and the Enabling Role of Technology: An Empirical Study on the Role of Fit,” Working Paper, Rady School of Management, April 2006.
Balasubramaniam, S., S. Bhattacharya, and V. Krishnan, “A Theory of Pricing for Information Intensive Offerings,” Working Paper, Rady School of Management.