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Kjersti A Lukens
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Summary Sentence: Business, Environment, and Society Series Speaker: Saravanan Kesavan, Associate Professor, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business College
Full Summary: Business, Environment, and Society Series Speaker: Saravanan Kesavan, Associate Professor, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business College
Saravanan KesavanPlease join Professor Saravanan Kesavan, for his talk on his research regarding the insecurities surrounding retail workers schedules.
Saravanan Kesavan is an Associate Professor and Sarah Graham Kenan Fellow at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. His research focuses on supply chain management for retailers, with emphasis on benchmarking operational performance and management of retail store labor. He uses publicly available financial data as well as proprietary archival data from retailers in his research. His research has appeared in Management Science and M&SOM. He received his doctorate in technology and operations management from Harvard Business School. He also has master’s and bachelor degrees in engineering from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and IIT Madras, India, respectively.
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business was founded in 2013 to act as a catalyst and connector, bringing together students, research faculty, companies, and entrepreneurs to create an environment where business-driven solutions to sustainability challenges can take shape and thrive. In all, Scheller provides students unparalleled breadth in environmental sustainability, ethics, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and values-based leadership.
