Word: jaikumar
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Daewoo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) Ramchandran Jaikumar suffered a fatal heart attack on Feb. 10, while mountain climbing in Ecuador...
...Jaikumar's work focused on manufacturing management and technology. He was a pioneer in the study of certain types of manufacturing systems...
...influence on the academic field of operations management and on industrial practice has been profound," said Professor Marshall Fisher of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Jaikumar's doctoral adviser...
...Jaikumar also won accolades for his teaching. "Jai cared greatly about what his students learned and it showed every time he entered the classroom," said Roy D. Shapiro, Phillips professor of manufacturing at HBS. "He set high standards...
...Jaikumar was also widely published and served as an advisor to two congressional committees. Mountain climbing was one of his favorite pursuits. As a guide in the Himalayas during his college years, Jaikumar climbed a 23,000-foot peak in 1966. Last year, he became the first person to reach the top of a remote peak in Greenland, naming it "Minarjnik" after his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and his two sons, Arjun and Nikhil...