Ganesh Vaidyanathan


Ganesh Vaidyanathan is the Professor of Decision Sciences department in the Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics, Indiana University South Bend. He served as the Chair of the Decision Sciences and the Director of the Master of Science in MIS program. He directed the Center of Experiential Education. He has also served as the Vice-President and member of the Senate Executive Committee, the Co-Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, and a member of the Assessment and Planning Committee for the school’s AACSB accreditation. He earned his MBA from the University of Chicago and his doctoral degree in Artificial Intelligence from Tulane University.

Research career

Ganesh Vaidyanathan has made significant research contributions to Operations Management and e-Commerce, seeking to advance their interfaces in corporations. He has authored more than 30 publications and book chapters in operations management, information systems, and project management areas in journals such as Journal of Operations Management, Communications of the ACM, and Decision Sciences. His book, “Project Management: Process, Technology and Practice”, published by Pearson Prentice-Hall, has been adopted as textbook in more than 50 universities.

Authored Books