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Nihar Kumthekar

Associate Professor

鶹 Faculty Since 2024

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Contact Info

Email
nkumthekar@jwu.edu
Phone
401-598-1473
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Nihar N. Kumthekar is an Associate Professor in the College of Business.

He currently teaches courses in logistics, operations, and supply chain management at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Nihar previously taught at the University of Southern Maine, Georgia Southern University, and S P Jain School of Global Management. He has experience teaching courses in the areas of business analytics, project management, purchasing and procurement, logistics management, operations management, and supply chain network design.

Nihar has also mentored student-led action research and action learning projects with industry partners in Singapore and Dubai. These projects covered areas related to operations and supply chains in the healthcare, information technology, logistics, manufacturing, fast moving consumer goods, and human resources sectors. He has also advised student organizations that became a forum for undergraduate operations, supply chain and analytics majors.

Education

  • Ph.D., Georgia Southern University
  • MBA, S P Jain School of Global Management
  • BE, Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidyala

“Every day is a new day. Every day provides us an opportunity to regroup, reflect, learn, and grow.”

Teaching Interests

  • Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Logistics Management
  • Business Analytics
  • Project Management

Scholarly Interests

  • Operational optimality in the presence of environmental uncertainty
  • Effects of the pandemic on technology adoption
  • Servitization
  • Manufacturing flexibility

Courses

  • MGMT2030: Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • MGMT3045: Logistics
  • MGMT5575: Operations Management
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Professional Affiliations

Decision Sciences Institute


Q&A with Nihar

At 鶹, education is not confined to the four walls of the classroom. You’re not going to spend four years with your nose buried in a book, learning theories you may never get a chance to apply — you’re going to get out there and apply them, be it through internships, group projects, leadership opportunities, competitions and more.

How Did You Get Started?

My career began as a development engineer with a global pump manufacturer at their technology center in India. I worked with their industrial processes group located in upstate New York- designing pumps for the Oil and Gas sector. The pump casings for these specialized pumps were cast in Mexico, assembled at their upstate New York operations, and shipped to customers in the Middle East. My work there sensitized me to the global nature of supply chains, and I became curious about how they are managed. To find an answer to this question, I pursued an M.B.A. in global logistics and supply chain management and discovered a discipline that I knew very less about, and which subsequently became my future academic “home”.

While working as an academic at a premier management institute in Asia, I found it extremely rewarding to teach and co-mentor future leaders while closely interacting with local industry. During my interactions with colleagues, and most importantly students, it became clear that my future lay in academia. This led me to pursue a Ph.D. in the discipline of logistics, and supply chain management and ultimately led to my joining 鶹 as faculty.

What College Do You Teach In?

College of Business