Biography

Punya earned her PhD in Business Administration (Supply Chain and Information Systems) from the Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University. She holds a BS-MS in Mathematical Sciences from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India. Her research investigates topics at the interface of operations and marketing. She is particularly interested in pricing, product return policies, product assortment policies, consignment contracts and sustainable fashion. She uses methodologies such as game theory, dynamic programming, stochastic optimization and queueing theory. Her research has been presented at major national and international conferences such as the INFORMS annual meeting and the POMS annual conference.

Teaching

SCMS 3711: Business Analytics Tools

Research

Research Interests

Retail Operations; Return leniency; Sustainability; Strategic Consumer Behavior; Operations-Marketing Interface

Publications

Chatterjee, P., S. Karray,  S. P. Sigue. 2019. Cooperative advertising programs: are accrual constraints necessary? International Transactions in Operational Research, 26(6), 2230-2247.