INFORMATION SYSTEMS & DECISION SCIENCES

Narendra K. Rustagi, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Chair
Room 443
(202) 806-1606
Email: nrustagi@howard.edu
           

Dr. Narendra Rustagi, Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences, joined the department in 1987, after serving as Research Fellow at International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, Consultant and Research Analyst at International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, and Consultant at Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, World Bank, Washington, DC respectively.  His primary research areas of interest include:  Pluralism and Competitiveness, Strategies for Enhancing Higher Education Programs, and Supply Chain Management and Competitiveness.  Rustagi served as a member of several organizations including:  the Advisory Board of the Center for Internet Technology in Education, the Executive Committee of International Academy of Business and Economics, and Guest Editor of Special Issue on South Asia of the International Journal of Commerce and Management.  He is the co-founder of International Business Academy where he held the position of President in 2005.  Rustagi currently serves as Book Editor for Advances in Competitiveness Research, as Business Program Coordinator for the American Society for Competitiveness, and more recently has been elected as the incoming President of IABD.  He has taught:  Introduction to Supply Chain Management, Advanced Supply Chain Management, Statistics, and POM.  Rustagi holds a Ph.D. and Masters of Applied Statistics from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, and a MA and BSc. (Hons.) in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, India.