Ramchandran Jaikumar
Ramchandran Jaikumar was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on December 17th, 1944 and is the Teacher. At the age of 53, Ramchandran Jaikumar biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jaikumar began his career at the Harvard Business School in 1980, where he taught MBA students. He subsequently became the Daewoo Professor of Business Administration. He was an expert in computer-aided manufacturing. In a 1984 article, he compared robots made in the United States and Japan, and he concluded that Japanese robots were far superior. By the 1990s, he published research about operating systems, and he argued for a minimalist approach.
Jaikumar worked with his thesis advisor Fisher on a consulting project between the University of Pennsylvania and Air Products & Chemicals, which won the 1983 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He won the same award in 1998. He also won the E. Grosvener Best Paper Award from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals in 1984. Additionally, he won the Frederick Winslow Taylor Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Grosvenor Plowman Prize from the National Council for Physical Distribution Management.
Jaikumar served on committees of the National Research Council. He was an advisor to the Office of Technology Assessment and the United States Senate Committee on Commerce and Science.
Jaikumar encouraged his students to enjoy their lives outside the classroom. He also taught that success was ultimately a matter of luck, which meant successful professionals were duty-bound to give back and help the less fortunate.