Daniels School professor appears before Senate Special Committee on Aging
Friday, June 2, 2023
Susan Lu, the Gerald Lyles Rising Star Professor of Management at Purdue University’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, recently offered expert testimony at a hearing of the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging.
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Future Edelman Impact Award Goes to Retail Inventory Analysis Solution
Monday, July 25, 2022
No retailer wants to stock its shelves with products that aren’t selling, but it’s a challenge for businesses to come up with just the right inventory balance. Using data from one national retailer’s top-performing stores, a group of students in Krannert’s Master of Science in Business Analytics and Information Management (MSBAIM) program found a solution they estimate could lead to an 11 percent profit increase for the company.
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All Electric Cars by 2035? Is it Possible?
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
With gas prices soaring, some drivers and companies may be turning to electric vehicles for refuge. General Motors plans to phase out making gas cars by 2035. “This was happening before this war and this crisis,” said Ananth Iyer, senior associate dean in Purdue’s Krannert School of Management. “How do we bring the community along? You look at the price of a fully battery operated vehicle, and it’s pretty steep compared to the regular car.”
Purdue Researchers Led by Krannert’s Pengyi Shi Receive Shah Lab’s 2022 Seed Grant Award
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Purdue University researchers Pengyi Shi, an associate professor of management, Nan Kong, a professor of biomedical engineering, and Omolola A. Adeoye-Olatunde, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice, were recently selected to receive the Shah Family Global Innovation Lab’s 2022 Seed Grant Award for their proposal to co-develop a digital solution and decision support system addressing the youth substance abuse crisis in Aru, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Complementary Learning: MSGSCM student masters her master’s program
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Sara Fortman picked up her first college degree, a BS in Supply Chain Management Technology, from the Purdue Polytechnic Institute in May 2021. She was awarded her second, a MS in Global Supply Chain Management, from Purdue’s Krannert School of Management in May 2022. “I fell in love with Purdue when I tagged along on my brother’s college tours,” she says. “When it was my turn to tour colleges, I fell in love with Purdue all over again. It had everything I wanted.”
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Exceeding Expectations: MSGSCM student ready to put her skills to work
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Mahalakshmi Vasudevan’s journey to Purdue’s Krannert School of Management began in an Indian village where most women were expected to lead families, not companies. Her upbringing in an orthodox family added to the challenge. “I was the first woman in my family to attend college, so there was a lot of resistance at first,” she says. “I eventually convinced my parents to let me get a bachelor’s degree in computer science even though they viewed it as a field for men.”
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Smooth Sailing: MSGSCM student makes the transition from industry to academia
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Prasad Raghu’s arrival at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management as a student in the MS in Global Supply Chain Management (MSGSCM) program seemed like a natural transition after working in industry for nearly nine years. “I chose Purdue as it’s consistently ranked in the top five for my areas of interest. It’s reputation and brand recognition, global alumni network, and access to cross disciplinary resources only made my decision easier," he says.
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14 Krannert Student-Athletes Receive Academic All-Big Ten Honors
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
A total of 14 Purdue Krannert student-athletes have received Academic All-Big Ten honors for their academic excellence during winter 2021-22. This is part of the University's total of 68 Boilermakers recognized for excelling in the classroom.
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Noticing high prices? It’s not just Austin
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Noticing higher prices at stores? You’re not alone. November saw the highest annual inflation from the previous year since June 1982. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index is up nearly 7% compared to this time last year.
What Works to Retain Staff: Purdue study finds commonalities in Indiana manufacturers with low turnover
Thursday, October 28, 2021
For the past three years, DCMME (Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises) at Purdue University have been surveying human resources managers at manufacturing companies in the 10-county area around Purdue. Eighty-three percent of more than 100 surveyed companies reported staff turnover as their leading concern. The most common figure for staff turnover is 40% per year, with most in shop-floor, hourly paid jobs.
ESC awards grant to Krannert faculty member for community-based research on criminal justice system
Thursday, August 12, 2021
The Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) has awarded Krannert Associate Professor Pengyi Shi a seed grant for her proposal titled “A Community Approach for Racial Justice: Decision Analytics Using Fair Machine Learning and Optimization.” Shi’s research focuses on building data-driven, high fidelity models and developing predictive and prescriptive analytics to support decisions making under uncertainty in healthcare and service systems.
Consumers, small businesses feel supply chain break as shortages cause prices to soar
Thursday, May 27, 2021
If you are having a hard time getting ketchup with your favorite take-out or you noticed the cost of your chicken is on the rise, you are not alone. Experts including Ananth Iyer, the Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management at Purdue University, say a break in the county’s supply chain means shortages and price increases, at least temporarily.
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