Meet The Authors

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http://people.bu.edu/joglekar/

is on the faculty at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. His interests involve Digital Product Management Thinking (DPMT), deployment of analytics and machine learning techniques in innovation processes, and digitization of supply chains. 

In addition to his academic career, he has overseen product management teams at established firms, and founded a software startup. He holds degrees in engineering from IIT, Memorial University, and MIT. He also holds a doctorate in management science from the MIT Sloan School.  

Professor Joglekar is the department editor for Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship at IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He is also a department editor for industry studies and public policy at Production and Operations Management.  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/varun-nagaraj-31853a/

is a practicing product executive in Silicon Valley who also researches and teaches digital product management, design thinking, and digital transformation. 

Varun has been a product manager, consulted to product managers on strategy and cycle time excellence while at PRTM management consulting (now PwC), and hired and managed product managers in his roles as VP of Product Management and CEO at software and systems companies in the fields of artificial intelligence and analytics, networking, security, data center virtualization, medical instrumentation, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Varun holds degrees in electrical and computer engineering from IIT Bombay and North Carolina State University in Raleigh, an MBA from Boston University, and a PhD in management from Case Western Reserve University.