Merrick School of Business
Professor of Operations Management
Awards and Honors
Distinguished University Professor
Doris E. and Robert V. McCurdy Chair in Business
Education
D.B.A., Kent State University
M.B.A., Kent State University
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology
Dr. Kalyan Singhal, a Distinguished University Professor and the Doris E. and Robert V. McCurdy Chair at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, has left an indelible mark on the field of production and operations management.
His journey began with a strong foundation in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (Mumbai), an institution so highly regarded that CBS' 60 Minutes described it as "Harvard, MIT, and Princeton put together.” Dr. Singhal's entrepreneurial drive led him to establish the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) in 1989, fostering a global community of scholars and practitioners. In 1992, he further shaped the field with the launch of the journal Production and Operations Management (POM), where his enduring leadership as editor-in-chief makes him the longest-serving editor of a leading management and business journal among the prestigious BusinessWeek and Financial Times rankings.
His dedication to advancing business thought is also evident in his role as founder, publisher, and co-editor-in-chief of the Management and Business Review (MBR), recognized by Forbes as a rival to the Harvard Business Review. Dr. Singhal's expertise is further validated by his numerous publications in top-tier journals and his Fellow status in INFORMS and POMS.
Trade Dynamics
Poverty level income
Queuing theory
Supply-chain and Operations Management, including sustainability.
International Operations, and Innovation and International Trade.
Refereed Journal Articles
Singhal, K., Singhal, J., & . (2025). Portfolio Scenarios for Interrelated Projects. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 72. 1154-1162.
Singhal, K., & Singhal, J. (2022). A programmed method for generating new product ideas from an existing product line. Decision Sciences. 53(4), 771-776.
Singhal, K., & Singhal, J. (2022). Technology and manufacturing‐and‐service operations since the Industrial Revolution. Production and Operations Management. 31(12), 4276-4282.
Singhal, K., & Singhal, J. (2022). Technology, knowledge, and manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution. Production and Operations Management. 31(12), 4262-4275.
Singhal, K., & . (2020). The Role of Research in Business Schools and the Synergy Between Its Four Subdomains. Academy of Management Review, 45(4) 896-912.. 45(4), 896-912.
". A general theory of trade-and- innovation dynamics and its science, part 3: Uniform innovation, population increases, productivity catch up, and adding goods to trade" (Planning)
"A general theory of trade-and- innovation dynamics and its science, part 1: Fundamental theorems for a linear N-good model" (On-Going)
"A general theory of trade-and- innovation dynamics and its science, part 2: Impact of innovation in individual goods on the innovator and its trading partners" (On-Going)
"A general theory of trade-and- innovation dynamics and its science, part 4: Monopolistic competition, spending unequal share of income on difference goods, and a synthesis" (Planning)
"Design of the business school: critical role of research beyond the Pasteur’s quadrant" (Writing Results)