Arora, Kashish

Biography

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. My research focuses on data-driven analysis of problems in supply chains, transportation and marketplace operations. My work has appeared in top academic outlets like Management Science and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Prior to joining CUHK, I was a faculty member at the Indian School of Business.

I received my PhD in Operations Management from Cornell’s S.C. Johnson School of Management in 2022, where I worked with Vishal Gaur. Before that, I received my B.Tech in Industrial and Production Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, MSc in Management from INSEAD, and Masters in Management from Cornell University.

Teaching Areas

Business Analytics
Operations and Supply Chain Management

Research Interests

Data-driven Analysis of Problems in Supply Chains
Transportation and Marketplace Operations.

• Publications & Working Papers
  • Kashish Arora and Vishal Gaur (2025), “A Structural Model of a Firm’s Operating Cash Flow with Applications,” Management Science.
  • Kashish Arora, Fanyin Zheng, and Karan Girotra (2023), “Private vs. Pooled Transportation: Customer Preference and Design of Green Transport Policy,” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(2), 594-611.
  • Kashish Arora, Amandeep Singh, and Mamta Sahare (2025), “Vertical Integration and Market Power in Supply Networks.”
  • Himanshu Arha, Kashish Arora, Milind Sohoni, and Raja Gopalakrishnan (2024), “A Structural Analysis of Freight Delays in the Indian Railway Network.”
  • Miloš Fišar, Ben Greiner, Christoph Huber, Elena Katok, Ali I. Ozkes, and Management Science Reproduciblity Consortium (2023), “Reproducibility in Management Science,” Management Science, 70(3):1343-1356.

• Grants
  • “Improvement on Competitiveness in Hiring New Faculties” Funding Scheme awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong with HK$1,500,000 (Principal Investigator)
  • IIDS Research Grant, Indian School of Business, INR 10,00,000, 2023-2024
  • Business of Food Grant, Cornell, USD 8,000, 2021-2022
  • Byron E. Grote MS’77 PhD’81 Cornell Johnson Professional Scholarship, Cornell, 2020-2021

• Awards & Honours
  • Outstanding Service to POMS Society Award, POMS, 2025
  • 1st Place, INFORMS Service Science Conference Best Student Paper award, 2022
  • Honorable Mention, POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Paper Award, 2021
  • Best Tutor award for excellence in MBA teaching, INSEAD, 2017

• Academic/Professional Services
  • Associate Editor, MSOM Special Issue on Responsible Retail Operations, 2024-present
  • Reviewer, Management Science, Operations Research, MSOM, POMS, MSOM SIG
  • Judge, PSOR student paper competition, PITM best student paper competition