Ajay Kumar

About

I am an Associate Professor of Business Analytics at EMLYON Business School, France. My research focuses on leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), and business analytics to drive competitive advantage and gain deep insights into how consumers, firms, industries, and societies are evolving in the era of big data. I explore the transformative impact of advanced analytics on decision-making, strategy, and innovation, bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and real-world business applications.

Employment

• University of Oxford Visiting Faculty
  2022 - Present
• EMLYON Business School Professor
  2019 - Present
• Columbia University Adjunct Faculty
  2019 - 2019
• Harvard Business School Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Science
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Scientist

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (19)

• Undiversity, Inequity, and Exclusion in Supply Chains: The Unintended Fallout of Economic Sanctions and Consumer Boycotts
  Production and Operations Management 2025 DOI: 10.1111/poms.14001
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• OM Forum—Barriers to Implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs in Supply Chains: Lessons from Comparing Public and Private Firms
  Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2025 DOI: 10.1287/msom.2023.0621
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• Does Price Personalization Ethically Outperform Unitary Pricing? A Thought Experiment and a Simulation Study
  Journal of Business Ethics 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05828-3
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• Digitalization and network capability as enablers of business model innovation and sustainability performance: The moderating effect of environmental dynamism
  Journal of Information Technology 2024 DOI: 10.1177/02683962231219513
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• Feature importance in the age of explainable AI: Case study of detecting fake news & misinformation via a multi-modal framework
  European Journal of Operational Research 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.10.003
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• Mitigating the bullwhip effect through supply chain ESG transparency: roles of digitalization and signal strength
  International Journal of Operations & Production Management 2024 DOI: 10.1108/IJOPM-08-2023-0667
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• Predicting the price of taxicabs using Artificial Intelligence: A hybrid approach based on clustering and ordinal regression models
  Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2024.103530
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• Disease Topic Modeling of Users' Inquiry Texts: A Text Mining-Based PQDR-LDA Model for Analyzing the Online Medical Records
  IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 2024 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2023.3307550
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• Price and Quality Strategy in Live Streaming E-Commerce With Consumers’ Social Interaction and Celebrity Sales Agents
  IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 2024 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2022.3227106
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• Signalling effects of doing good in global ICO markets
  Journal of Business Research 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114224
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