Professor Jan Godsell, Dean of Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University, discusses her views on impactful education and scholarship with Dr. Rajinder Bhandal.

Jan Godsell is Dean of LB and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at Loughborough University. Her work focuses on the pursuit of more responsible consumption and production through the alignment of product, marketing and supply chain strategy with consumer needs. In particular Jan’s work focuses on the design of end-to-end supply chains to enable, responsibility, sustainability, resilience and productivity.

As a chartered engineer, Jan has more than three decades of combined industry experience in product development, innovation, supply chain strategy, and process improvement working for ICI, Astra Zeneca and Dyson. She has advised government and industry on supply chain strategy and its relationship to industrial and business strategy. Jan is a former member of the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) supply chain resilience advisory group. Jan is also a member of the advisory group for the Made Smarter Innovation (MSI) challenge.

Professor Aravind Chandrasekaran, Dean of The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, discusses his views on impactful education and scholarship with Dr. Rajinder Bhandal.

Aravind Chandrasekaran holds the John Berry Sr. Chair in Business. Before his appointment, AC served as senior associate dean for faculty, research and non-degree executive education ― a role in which he spearheaded innovative enhancements to Fisher’s teaching, research and outreach priorities. Prior to that position, he was the college’s associate dean for graduate programs and executive education, managing a diverse portfolio that included the Full-Time MBA, Working Professional MBA (WPMBA), Specialized Masters, Executive MBA, Master of Business in Operational Excellence (MBOE) and custom executive education offerings. He has also played a key role in developing tailored teaching and research programs for global organizations such as Tata Consultancy Services, Ford Motor Company and Zimmer. In the classroom, AC is a highly respected educator who has been recognized with multiple college honors including the WPMBA’s Outstanding Core Professor Award (2012, 2016) and the 2013 Pace Setters Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2017, he was named one of Poets&Quants’ “40 Under 40” Top Business School Professors. He was appointed the Fisher Distinguished Professor in Operations and Business Analytics in 2021. As a researcher, AC’s work explores innovation, organizational learning and knowledge creation across sectors such as high-tech R&D, manufacturing and health care delivery. His recent work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics and operational excellence. His academic scholarship has been featured in top journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Information Systems Research, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Surgical Research, and Harvard Business Review. His research has earned numerous accolades, including the 2012 INFORMS-Industry Studies Best Paper Award, the 2013 Carol J. Latta Emerging Leadership Award from the Decision Sciences Institute, and Fisher’s 2015 Pace Setters Research Award. He holds a PhD in Business Administration and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Suresh P. Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair Professor of Operations Management and Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks (C4ISN) at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has written 11 books and published over 400 research papers in manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics, marketing, and optimization theory. He initiated and developed doctoral programs in operations management at The University of Texas at Dallas UTD and the University of Toronto. He built the operations management area of UTD’s Naveen Jindal School of Management into its current research powerhouse. Two conferences were organized in his honor: in Aix-en-Provence in 2005 and at The University of Texas at Dallas in 2006, with Harry M. Markowitz, a 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics, as the keynote speaker. In 2025, there are/will be three conferences in his honor at The Magna Carta Island in London, The University of Texas at Dallas, and National Economics University in Hanoi. Two books have been edited in his honor. Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) awards the Suresh Sethi Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award every two years, beginning in 2025. Prestigious honors and awards received by him include Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Science, IEEE Fellow, INFORMS Fellow, SIAM Fellow, POMS Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IITB Distinguished Alum, Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business-Alumni Achievement Award (2015), and POMS President (2012).