The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will host a guest lecture by
Srinagesh Gavirneni, assistant professor of operations management in the Johnson Graduate
School of Management at Cornell University, on Friday, Feb. 27. Gavirneni will speak on
"Transfer Pricing and Offshoring in Global Supply Chains" at 1 p.m. in Room 525 of the
Whitman School building. The lecture is free and open to all SU faculty, staff and students.
Gavirneni will examine the rationale that global companies employ in using offshoring to
increase profitability, and the conflicting priorities of headquarters and local offices around
these rationales. Gavirneni's research interests are in the areas of supply chain management,
inventory control, production scheduling, simulation and optimization. His papers have
appeared in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management,
Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research
Letters, IIE Transactions, Interfaces and IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Previously, he was
an assistant professor in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Before that he
was the chief algorithm design engineer of SmartOps; a software architect at Maxager
Technology, Inc.; and a research scientist with Schlumberger. He earned his undergraduate
degree from IIT-Madras, a master's degree from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. from
Carnegie Mellon University.
For additional information, contact Amy Mehringer, director of communications, Whitman
School of Management, at (315) 443-3834 or aemehrin@syr.edu.
