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Shreevardhan Lele Ralph J. Tyser Distinguished Teaching Fellow of Decision Sciences Decision, Operations and Information Technologies Department Robert H. Smith School of Business College Park, MD 20742-1815
(301) 405-2262
* sLele@rhsmith.umd.edu |
Shreevardhan Lele is the Ralph J. Tyser Distinguished Teaching Fellow of Decision Sciences at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. He teaches MBA and Executive MBA courses in three different areas: 1. A core course on management science and managerial statistics, Data, Models and Decisions, of which, he is the faculty coordinator 2. Two electives on managerial applications of game theory: Games of Strategy and Incentives and Contracts, and 3. An elective on sustainability and managerial ethics, Managers in Society: Values and Institutions. He is a multiple-time recipient of the Smith School's Allen J. Krowe Award for sustained teaching excellence in the MBA program. In 2002, he was inducted as a Fellow into the University of Maryland's Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Dr. Lele served as the Academic Director
of the Smith MBA
programs from 2003-2006. Currently, he chairs the Department
of Decision, Operations and
Information Technologies' Committee on Programs, Curricula and
Courses. In 2006, he was elected by his faculty colleagues
from across the Smith School to the newly created Faculty Council,
which is responsible for oversight of faculty governance at the
Smith School. Dr. Lele's current work centers on MBA curriculum development and on issues at the intersection of business and society. His past research has spanned data mining for business intelligence, management of risky projects using the theory of options pricing, and optimal control of monitoring procedures. His work has been published in several refereed scholarly journals including Operations Research; Production and Operations Management; INFORMS Journal on Computing; European Journal of Operational Research; IIE Transactions; and Decision Support Systems. Dr. Lele is an affiliate faculty member in the University of Maryland's graduate program in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Scientific Computation. Dr. Lele has provided consulting/executive training to several firms in a broad range of industries. From 1998-2000, he directed the Consulting Practicum in the QUEST Program (Quality Enhancement, Systems and Teams), which is a multidisciplinary collaboration between the Smith School of Business and the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering. Before joining the Smith School in 1997, Dr. Lele taught at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Dr. Lele lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his son, Axel. |
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