Faculty Profile

Education

Current Appointment

Awards, Recognition and Honors

• 2024, Second Prize in INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition.
• 2024, Finalist in MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award Competition.
• 2024, Winner of MSOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management.
• 2022, Winner of INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) Best Working Paper Competition.
• 2021, Winner of INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award.
• 2021, Finalist in INFORMS Service Science Cluster Paper Award Competition.
• 2021, Finalist in POMS Applied Research Challenge.
• 2020, M&SOM Meritorious Service Award.
• 2020, Honorable Mention in INFORMS Behavioral Operations Management Working Paper Competition.
• 2020, Finalist in INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Practice Award Competition.
• 2019-20, LKCSB Dean’s Teaching Honour List.
• 2018, Second Prize in MSOM Student Paper Competition.
• 2018, Finalist in INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR Paper Competition.
• 2018, Second Prize in POMS College of Behavioral Operations Management Junior Scholar Competition.
• 2017, Winner of INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Competition.
• 2017, Second Prize in INFORMS Behavioral Operations Management Working Paper Competition.
• 2017, Finalist in INFORMS IBM Service Science Student Paper Competition.
• 2016, Second Prize in INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Student Paper Competition.
• 2016, Second Prize in POMS-HK Student Paper Competition.
• 2015, INSEAD Best Tutor Award for MBA Teaching.
• 2012-17, INSEAD Doctoral Fellowship.
• 2009, Silver Medal for obtaining the second highest CGPA across all disciplines at BITS-Pilani.
• 2004-09, Merit Scholarship in all the semesters for being amongst the top 10 students at BITS-Pilani.
• 2002-04, Secured 13th rank, 4th rank and 15th rank in 10th, 11th and 12th State Board Examinations respectively.

Research Interests

• Business models at the Bottom of the Pyramid
• Behavioral operations management

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

• Uppari, B.S., I. Popescu and S. Netessine. 2019. Selling Off-Grid Light to Liquidity Constrained Consumers. M&SOM. 21(2), 308 - 326.
  - Finalist, IBM Service Science Student Paper Competition, INFORMS 2017.
  - Second Prize, Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Student Paper Competition, INFORMS 2016.
  - Featured in INSEAD Knowledge and Knowledge@Wharton.
  - Selected for presentation at MSOM Sustainability SIG 2016 and Early-career Sustainable Operations Workshop 2017.
• Uppari, B.S. and S. Hasija. 2019. Modeling Newsvendor Behavior: A Prospect Theory Approach. M&SOM. 21(3), 481 - 500.
  - Second Prize, College of Behavioral Operations Management Junior Scholar Competition, POMS 2018.
  - Winner, Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Competition, INFORMS 2017.
  - Second Prize, Behavioral Operations Management Working Paper Competition, INFORMS 2017.
  - Second Prize, Student Paper Competition, POMS-HK 2016.
• Uppari, B.S., S. Netessine, I. Popescu, and R.P. Clarke. Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis. Accepted at Management Science.
  - Winner, Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section Best Working Paper Competition, INFORMS 2022.
  - Winner, Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, INFORMS 2021.
  - Finalist, Service Science Cluster Paper Award Competition, INFORMS 2021.
  - Finalist, Applied Research Challenge, POMS 2021.
  - Honorable Mention, Behavioral Operations Management Working Paper Competition, INFORMS 2020.
  - Finalist, Decision Analysis Society Practice Award Competition, INFORMS 2020.
  - Second Prize, MSOM Student Paper Competition, INFORMS 2018.
  - Finalist, Doing Good with Good OR Paper Competition, INFORMS 2018.
  - Featured in Amazon Science.