Jahar Saha is a professor and former director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM)

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad , better known as IIM Ahmedabad or simply IIM-A, is a business school located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is the second Indian Institute of Management to be established, in 1961.-History:...

, Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

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, a position he held from 1998 to 2002.

Education

He is an alumnus of the Indian Statistical Institute

Indian Statistical Institute

Indian Statistical Institute is a public research institute and university in Kolkata's northern outskirt of Baranagar, India founded by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1931...

, Kolkata

Kolkata

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, where he earned his master's degree

Master's degree

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 in statistics

Statistics

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. He holds a doctorate

Doctorate

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 in operations research

Operations research

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 from Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University

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, Cleveland, Ohio

Ohio

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. His doctoral thesis was titled "Some Problems in Railway Networks" which focused on two kinds of problems in railway networks: (i) scheduling trains, (ii) selecting an optimal configuration for railway networks.

Career

Saha joined the IIM A in 1975 as professor in the Production and quantitative methods. He also taught at Lake Erie College

Lake Erie College

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 in Ohio and was a visiting professor at the University of New Brunswick

University of New Brunswick

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, Canada.

He is a member of the Operations research Society of India.

External links

• Profile at the Operations research Society of India, Ahmedabad Chapter website