Mahesh Nagarajan

Mahesh Nagarajan is a Full Professor at The University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business, within the Department of BUS. His research focuses on operations and supply chain management, stochastic optimization, cooperative game theory, and health care operations. He has contributed to various publications in journals such as Operations Research and M&SOM. His work includes topics like stable supplier coalitions, competitive newsvendors, and patient prioritization in emergency departments. Nagarajan also teaches courses on business processes, operations, and supply chain management at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Mahesh Nagarajan's research focuses on supply chain cooperation, inventory models, and polymer science. His work explores game-theoretic approaches to supply chain coordination, including bargaining frameworks, coalition stability, and dynamic supplier contracts. Nagarajan also investigates inventory policies for substitutable products, stochastic inventory control, and the impact of asymmetric information on vendor-managed inventory systems. In polymer science, his research examines the structure and properties of polyurethane elastomers, including the effects of chain extender length and conformational analysis of hard segments. Additionally, he studies emergency department triage systems and applies prospect theory to the newsvendor problem. His research combines operations management and materials science to address complex decision-making challenges.