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Pritha Dutta is Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, Salem, OR.

Previously she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management and Management Science, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York, NY.

She received a Bachelor in Science degree with a major in Statistics from Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, in 2011 and a Master of Science degree in Operational Research from the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, in 2013. She received her PhD in Business Administration majoring in Management Science from the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2019.

Her research interests include sustainability and quality issues in supply chains, applications of OR in healthcare and public policy, and supply chain network economics.

Pritha was awarded the Best Presentation by a PhD student award for the paper, Competition for Blood Donations: A Nash Equilibrium Network Framework, with Anna Nagurney, at the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, March 2017.

Pritha was a very active member of the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter and was its President during the 2016-2017 Academic Year.

Selected Publications:

An Integrated Multitiered Supply Chain Network Model of Competing Agricultural Firms and Processing Firms: The Case of Fresh Produce and Quality
Deniz Besik, Anna Nagurney, and Pritha Dutta, European Journal of Operational Research 307(1): (2023), pp 364-381.

Competition for Medical Supplies Under Stochastic Demand in the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Generalized Nash Equilibrium Framework
Anna Nagurney, Mojtaba Salarpour, June Dong, and Pritha Dutta, Nonlinear Analysis and Global Optimization, Themistocles M. Rassias, and Panos M. Pardalos, Editors, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021, pp 331-356.

Multitiered Blood Supply Chain Network Competition: Linking Blood Service Organizations, Hospitals, and Payers
Pritha Dutta and Anna Nagurney, Operations Research for Health Care, 23: (2019), 100230.

Competition for Blood Donations
Anna Nagurney and Pritha Dutta, Omega 212: (2019), pp 103-114.

Supply Chain Network Competition Among Blood Service Organizations: A Generalized Nash Equilibrium Framework
Anna Nagurney and Pritha Dutta, Annals of Operations Research 275(2): (2019), pp 551-586.

Airline Baggage Fees and Flight Delays: A Floor Wax and Dessert Topping?
Amirhossein A. Yazdi, Pritha Dutta, and Adams B. Steven, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 104 (2017) pp. 83-96.

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