Haritha Saranga is a professor of Production and Operations Management area at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, India. She has been awarded IIMB Chair of Excellence for her contribution to research and teaching excellence at IIM Bangalore. She also chairs the ‘Doctoral Programme’ at IIM Bangalore. 

Haritha Saranga’s research interests include Sustainability, Total Quality Management, Lean Manufacturing and Empirical Research on Indian manufacturing industries, in particular automotive and pharmaceutical industries and healthcare sector. 

She is a Fellow of MIRCE Akademy, Exeter, UK, and a recipient of the T.E. Filbee Research Fellowship. She has published several articles in refereed international journals, such as Production and Operations Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of International Business Studies, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Operational Research Society. She also co-authored a book, titled Reliability and Six Sigma, published by Springer and has written many cases and book chapters.