Dr. Charu Sinha
Associate Professor; Academic Director, MS in Business Analytics Program; Clinical
Faculty
Business and Economics, The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics
Office Location: Beckman Hall 303 A
Phone: (714) 628-2837
Email: csinha@chapman.edu
- Education:
- St. Xavier's College, Bachelor of Science
Syracuse University, Master of Science
Stony Brook University, Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Sinha has served in two administrative capacities at Chapman University, first
as director of Continuous Improvement, managing the Argyros School’s Assurance of
Learning process for accreditation and then as assistant dean of Undergraduate Programs,
overseeing the undergraduate academic programs and the academic progress of approximately
1,800 Argyros School undergraduate students. Her teaching interests are in business
analytics, business statistics, and operations management, and she teaches at both
the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests include stochastic modeling,
optimization of operations processes and pedagogical issues.
Prior to joining Chapman University, Dr. Sinha worked for 10 years at AT&T as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, undertaking various roles on a series of pioneering initiatives in voice, data and voice-over-internet protocol. Her responsibilities included new service development, business planning, operations planning and deployment of various business communication services. Dr. Sinha was previously a faculty member at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Prior to joining Chapman University, Dr. Sinha worked for 10 years at AT&T as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, undertaking various roles on a series of pioneering initiatives in voice, data and voice-over-internet protocol. Her responsibilities included new service development, business planning, operations planning and deployment of various business communication services. Dr. Sinha was previously a faculty member at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- Sinha, Charu, Veselina Vracheva, Cristina Nistor (2024) “Maximizing Generative AI Benefits with Task Creativity and Human Validation”. Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management 24 (2): 112–22.
- Dehning, Bruce, Charu Sinha, Praveen Sinha, "Change in Earnings Quality Surrounding ERP Implementation". Corporate Ownership and Control, Vol 15, Issue 1, Pages 8-17
- "Are all CSR Activities Equal? The relative role of supplier CSR"- WDSI 2014 Proceedings
- Sinha, Charu, Matthew J. Sobel, and Volodymyr Babich, “Computationally Simple and Unified Approach to Finite and Infinite Horizon Clark-Scarf Inventory Model”: Published in IIE Transactions, 2011, Vol. 43, page 207-219.