Hemant Kher is a Professor of operations management and Chairperson of the Department of Business Administration at the University of Delaware.

Hemant Kher is a Professor of operations management and Chairperson in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Delaware prior to pursuing his graduate studies, he worked in the Quality Control and Production Planning departments at Amforge Industries in Mumbai, India. He has consulted with several firms on operations issues. He has published his research work in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research and elsewhere.

He earned a PhD in production & operations management from the University of South Carolina, a masters in industrial administration from Lynchburg College, and a B.Sc. in physics from Bombay University.

He has many publications to his name, some of his selected publications include:

Kher, H. V., Kydd, C. T., O’Brien, T. M. (accepted for publication, 2016).

Evolution of Product Quality in European, Japanese and US Automotive Firms: An Exploratory Longitudinal Analysis.

Omega: The International Journal of Management Science.

Elliott, D. J., Williams, K. D., Wu, P., Kher, H. V., Barret, M., Reinbold, N., Coletti, C., Patel, B. J., Dressler, R. M. (2015).

An Interdepartmental Care Model to Expedite Admission from the Emergency Department to the Medical ICU.

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Vol. 41, No.

12, 542-549.

Fleischhacker, A. J., Chen, B., Kher, H. V., Mazal, M., and Pfender, W. (2015).

Capacity Planning in the Presence of Sequence Dependent Setups at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Interfaces, Vol. 45, No.

4, 358-362.

Among others.

He is a recipient of many awards and honorary recognition, which include:

Outstanding Scholarship Award, Department of Business Administration, UD, 2014.

Research collaboration agreement between University of Delaware and AstraZeneca, titled: “Formulation Capacity Modeling,” 2013

Research collaboration agreement between University of Delaware and JP Morgan Chase.

Topic: “Using Metrics for Continuous Improvement in Application Delivery Processes,” 2012.^[1] Among others.