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Seminar Series – Operations/Supply Chain Management

Suresh Sethi, Charles & Nancy Davidson Chair in Operations in his office

Hear the latest research on the most relevant topics facing operations management today.

The Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas is privileged to host academic experts presenting their latest research on the most relevant topics facing our discipline today. Operations/Supply Chain Management Seminars are held every Fall and Spring semester. For information about attending, please contact Jade Fox.

Current Seminars

Spring 2024
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
02/02/2024 Andrew Frazelle(The University of Texas at Dallas)
Getting Out of Your Own Way: Introducing Autonomous Vehicles on a Ride-Hailing Platform
03/01/2024 Meng Li(University of Houston)
Physician Adoption of AI Assistant
03/08/2024 Elena Katok(The University of Texas at Dallas)
The Best of Both Worlds: Machine Learning and Behavioral Science in Operations Management
03/22/2024 Shi Chen(University of Washington)
Operations Management in Cloud Computing: Pricing and Capacity Planning
03/29/2024 Metin Cakanyildirim(The University of Texas at Dallas)
Buyout Price Optimization in the Rent-to-Own Business
Fall 2023
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
09/08/2023 Neda Mirzaeian(The University of Texas at Dallas)
Modeling and Managing Curbside Ride-Hailing Drop-offs
10/13/2023 Emre Nada(Bilkent University)
Optimal procurement in remanufacturing systems with uncertain used-item condition
10/20/2023 Sirong Luo(Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Credit Line and Interest Rate Optimization in Lending Industry
10/27/2023 Elodie Goodman(University of California, Riverside)
Indication-based pricing for multi-indication drugs
11/10/2023 Diwas KC(Emory University)
Store Closures and Online Shopping: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Past Seminars

Spring 2023
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
01/13/2023 Christian Kaps(The Wharton School)
Privately-Owned Battery Storage – Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity
01/17/2023 Kan Xu(University of Pennsylvania)
Learning Across Bandits in High Dimension via Robust Statistics
01/20/2023 Mingliu Chen(Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University)
Operational Design Problems in Emerging Markets
01/23/2023 Sentao Miao(Desaultels Faculty of Management, McGill University)
Allocating Resources in Multi-Warehouse Multi-Store Suply Chain Networks
02/10/2023 Yale T. Herer(Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
An asymptotic perspective on risk pooling: Limitations and relationship to transshipments
03/03/2023 Tolga Tezcan(Rice University)
Fall 2022
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
09/16/2022 Guihua Wang(The University of Texas at Dallas)
Does Telehealth Reduce Rural-Urban Care-Access Disparities?
Evidence from COVID-19 Telehealth Expansion
09/30/2022 Diwakar Gupta(The University of Texas)
Impact of Verification Costs on Equity-Based Principal-Agent Transactions
10/21/2022 Ashwin Venkataraman(The University of Texas at Dallas)
Nonparametric Demand Estimation in the Presence of Unobserved Factors
11/04/2022 James Siderius(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Potential Harms of Social
11/11/2022 Yunzong Xu(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Bridging Online and Offline Learning Towards Improved Data-Drive Decision Making
11/18/2022 Hyoduk Shin(University of California San Diego)
Cyberattacks, Operational Disruption and Investment in Resilience Measures
11/21/2022 Jingwei Zhang(Anderson School of Management, UCLA)
Planning Bike Lanes with Data: ridership, Congestion, and Path Selection
12/02/2022 Mengxin Wang(University of California, Berkeley)
Coordinating Offline and Online Revenue Management: Practical Insights from Optimization
12/05/2022 Yueeyang Zhong(Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago)
Behavior-Aware Queueing: When Strategic Customers Meet Strategic Servers
12/09/2022 Meichun Lin(Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia)
Uncertain Search with Knowledge Transfer
12/12/2022 Alp Sungu(London Business School)
Food Subsidies at the Base-of-the-Pyramid: Take-up, Substitution Effects, and Nutrition
12/16/2022 Neha Sharma(Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)
Structuring Online Communities
Spring 2022
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
1/11/2022 Hossein Piri, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Individualized Dynamic Patient Monitoring UnderAlarm Fatigue
1/14/2022 Xiao Lei, Columbia University
Video Game Analytics
1/18/2022 Neda Mirzaeian Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Can Autonomous Vehicles Solve the Commuter Parking Problem?
1/21/2022 Jiawei Li, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan)
Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Resource Allocation
1/28/2022 Yue Hu, Columbia University
Prediction-Driven Surge Planning with Application in the Emergency Department
Fall 2021
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
11/19/2021 Jong Myeong Lim (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Searching for the Best Yardstick: Cost of Quality Improvements in the U.S. Hospital Industry
12/10/2021 Yining Wang (Warrington College of Business, University of Florida)
Resource Constrained Revenue Management with Demand Learning and Large Action Spaces
9/3/2021 Bora Keskin (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)
Data-driven Clustering and Feature-based Retail Electricity Pricing with Smart Meters
9/24/2021 Xiaole Wu (Fudan University)
Brand Spillover as a Marketing Strategy
10/29/2021 Sergei Savin (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Off-Platform Threats in On-Demand Services
11/5/2021 Saed Alizamir (Yale School of Management)
Competing to Discover Compliance Violations: Self-Inspections and Enforcement Policies
11/12/2021 Tava Olsen (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Modeling Contracts and Incentives in Agricultural Cooperative Supply Chains
12/3/2021 Marcelo Olivares (University of Chile)
Spring 2021
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
01/22/2021 Ignacio Rios Uribe (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Improving match rates in dating markets through assortment optimization
02/05/2021 Ruxian Wang (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School)
Hybrid Model for Sequential and Simultaneous Choice with Search Cost
02/26/2021 Ruomeng Cui (Emory University Goizueta Business School),
Sooner or Later? Promising Delivery Speed in Online Retail
03/05/2021 Omar Besbes (Columbia Business School)
Data-Driven Pricing
03/12/2021 Soraya Fatehi The University of Texas at Dallas
Capacity Flexibility via On-Demand Warehousing
03/26/2021 Beril Toktay Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
Waste Management Strategies under Information Asymmetry
Fall 2020
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
09/4/2020 John Hasenbein (The University of Texas at Austin)
Surveillance Testing to Detect Covid-19 Outbreaks: Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization
09/18/2020 Kostas Bimpikis (Stanford School of Business)
Information Disclosure in Two-Sided Platforms: Optimizing for Supply
10/2/2020 Atalay Atasu (Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business), INSEAD
Leasing, Modularity, and the Circular Economy
10/16/2020 Shiliang Cui (Georgetown University)
Slugging: Casual Carpooling for Urban Transit
10/30/2020 Amy Ward (The University of Chicago)
Behavior‐Aware Queueing: The Finite-Buffer Setting with Many Strategic Servers
11/13/2020 Francis de Vericourt (ESMT Berlin)
Human and Machine: The Impact of Machine Input on Decision-Making Under Cognitive Limitations
11/20/2020 Alain Bensoussan (The University of Texas at Dallas)
New Mathematical Problems Of Management Science
Spring 2020
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
1/15/2020 Soraya (Nadia) Fatehi (University of Washington)
Crowdsourcing Last-Mile Deliveries
1/24/2020 Lina (Dahye) Song (Harvard University)
The Spillover Effects of Hospital Closures on the Efficiency and Quality of Other Hospitals
1/31/2020 Amrita Kundu (London Business School)
Timely After-Sales Service and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Off-Grid Solar Market in Uganda
2/7/2020 Jiayi Joey Yu (University of California, Berkeley)
Innovative Public Policies to Improve Social Welfare – from an OM/OR Perspective
2/14/2020 Ignacio Rios (Stanford University)
Optimizing Assortments in Two-sided Markets: An Application to Dating
2/28/2020 Bin Hu (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Negotiating G2G Contracts for India’s Pulses Importing

Shouqiang Wang (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Warning Against Recurring Risks: An Information Design Approach
Fall 2019
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
08/30/2019 Rob Rooderkerk (Erasmus University)
The Effect of Congruency between Individuals Product Categorizations and Store Assortment Layout on Purchase Intention and Choice Satisfaction
09/13/2019 Tyson Browning (Texas Christian University)
Research Applications of the Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and Publishing in the Journal of Operations Management
09/20/2019 Nur Sunar ( University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
Net-Metered Distributed Renewable Energy: A Peril for Utilities?
09/27/2019 David A Goldberg (Cornell University)
Beating the curse of dimensionality in optimal stopping, options pricing, and beyond
10/4/2019 Suresh P Sethi (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Feedback Stackelberg Games for Dynamic Supply Chains with Cost Learning
11/15/2019 Itai Gurvich (Cornell Tech)
On bounded regret in resource allocation problems
12/6/2019 Dennis Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis )
Reducing Discrimination with Reviews in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb
Spring 2019
Date Guest Lecturer Presentation Title
1/18/2019 Levi DeValve (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University) Resource Investment Under Uncertainty in Complex Systems
1/25/2019 Jiankun Sun (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University) Theory and Practice in Supply Chain Management: From Sourcing to Fulfillment
2/8/2019 Guihua Wang (Ross School of Business University of Michigan – Ann Arbor) Driving Precision Health Care through Heterogeneous Outcome Analysis
2/15/2019 Siddharth Prakash Singh (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University) That’s Not Fair: Tariff Structures for Electricity Markets with Rooftop Solar
2/22/2019 Vishal Ahuja (Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business) An Approximation Approach for Response Adaptive Clinical Trial Design
4/5/2019 Fernando Bernstein (Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business) Competition between Two-Sided Platforms under Demand and Supply Congestion Effects
Fall 2018
Date Guest Lecturer Presentation Title
11/2/2018 Laura Wagner (Universidad Portugesa, Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics) Pricing and Assortment Strategies with Product Exchanges
11/9/2018 Jan A. Van Mieghem (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University) Dual Sourcing and Smoothing under Non-Stationary Demand Time Series: Re-shoring with Speed Factories
10/19/2018 Leon Zhu(Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California) Platform Strategy and Operations in China: A Transaction Cost-based Perspective
09/21/2018 Soo-Haeng (Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University) A Queueing Model and Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles on Highways
09/14/2018 Tinglong Dai ( Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) Incentive Design for Operations- Marketing Multitasking
Spring 2018
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
03/30/2018 Ming Hu (University of Toronto)
Blockbuster or Niche? Competitive Strategy under Network Effects
03/09/2018 Brian Tomlin (Dartmouth College)
Selling Co-products through a Distributor: The Impact on Product Line Design
02/09/2018 Yichuan Ding (University of British Columbia)
KDPI-Dependent Ranking Policies: Shaping the Allocation of Deceased-Donor Kidneys in the New Era
02/02/2018 Lauren Lu (University of North Carolina)
Do Mandatory Overtime Laws Improve Quality? Staffing Decisions and Operational Flexibility of Nursing Homes
01/26/2018 Andrew Fazelle (Duke University)
Strategic Open Routing in Service Networks
01/19/2018 Mohammad Fazel Zarandi (Yale University)
The Number of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States
01/12/2018 Bin Hu (University of North Carolina)
Optimal Procurement Mechanisms for Assembly
Fall 2017
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
12/08/2017 Leela Nageswaran (Carnegie Mellon University)
Queues with redundancy: Is waiting in multiple lines fair?
12/04/2017 Maria Ibanez (Harvard Business School)
Discretionary Task Ordering: Queue Management in Radiological Services
12/01/2017 Chloe Glaeser (University of Pennsylvania)
Optimal Retail Location: Empirical Methodology and Application to Practice Application to Practice
11/16/2017 Barış Ata (University of Chicago)
Dynamic Staffing of Volunteer Gleaning Operations
OrganJet: Overcoming Geographical Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidneys in the United States
Managing the Callback Option under Arrival Rate Uncertainty To Be Announced
10/27/2017 Yun Fong Lim (Singapore Management University)
Matching Supply with Demand for Online Retailing
9/22/2017 Peng Sun (Duke University)
Optimal Monitoring Schedule in Dynamic Contracts
9/15/2017 Haresh Gurnani (Wake Forest University)
Demonstrations and Price Competition in New Product Release
Spring 2017
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
3/31/2017 Gad Allon (University of Pennsylvania)
Managing Service Systems in the Presence of Social Networks
3/24/2017 Rakesh Vohra (University of Pennsylvania)
Network Formation and Systemic Risk
2/17/2017 Sreekumar Bhaskaran (Southern Methodist University)
An Economic Analysis of Customer Co-design
2/6/2017 Tobias Stangl (University of Cologne)
Equivalent Inventory Metrics: A Behavioral Perspective
2/3/2017 Yun Zhou (University of Toronto)
Operational Problems in the Sharing Economy: Pricing and Matching
1/30/2017 Qi (George) Chen (University of Michigan)
Real-Time Dynamic Pricing with Minimal and Flexible Price Adjustment
1/23/2017 Xiaoyang Long (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
A Behavioral Study on Abandonment Decisions in Multi-Stage Projects
1/20/2017 Shima Nassiri (University of Washington)
Bundled Payment vs. Fee-for-Service: Impact of Payment Scheme on Performance
1/13/2017 Nan Liu (Columbia University)
When Waiting to See a Doctor is Less Irritating: Understanding Patient Preferences and Choice Behavior in Appointment Scheduling
Fall 2016
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
12/2/2016 Felipe Caro (UCLA)
Managing Online Content to Build a Follower Base
11/18/2016 Hao Zhang (University of British Columbia)
A Dual Framework for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
10/28/2016 Adam Mersereau (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Optimal Merchandise Testing with Limited Inventory
10/21/2016 Xishu Li (Erasmus University)
Competitive Capacity Investment under Uncertainty
10/14/2016 Manu Goyal (University of Utah)
Ethics, Bounded Rationality and Incomplete Outsourcing Contracts
9/30/2016 Bin Hu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Is Reshoring Better than Offshoring? The Effect of Offshore Supply Dependence
Spring 2016
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
4/1/2016 Thomas Archibald (University of Edinburgh)
Modeling Transshipment Decisions in Retail Networks
3/25/2016 Robert Phillips (Columbia University)
Revenue-Maximizing Dynamic Tolls
2/5/2016 Şafak Yücel (Duke University)
Impact of Electricity Pricing Policies on Renewable Energy Investments and Carbon Emissions
1/29/2016 Renyu Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis)
Trade-in Remanufacturing, Strategic Customer Behavior, and Government Subsidies
1/25/2016 Guang Li (University of Southern California)
The d-Level Nested Logit Model: Choice Modeling and Assortment Optimization
1/22/2016 Xin Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Green Technology Development and Adoption: Competition, Regulation, and Uncertainty – A Global Game Approach
1/15/2016 Nan Yang (Washington University in St. Louis)
PBM Competition in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: Formulary Design and Drug Pricing
1/13/2016 Asa Palley (Duke University)
Eliciting and Aggregating Forecasts When Information is Shared
Fall 2015
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
12/4/2015 Gabriel Weintraub (Columbia University)
A Framework for Dynamic Oligopoly in Concentrated Industries
11/30/2015 Shouqiang Wang (Clemson University)
Inducing Environmental Disclosures: A Dynamic Mechanism Design Approach
11/20/2015 Nicholas Petruzzi (Pennsylvania State University)
Overconfident Competing Newsvendors
10/23/2015 Senthil Veeraraghavan (University of Pennsylvania)
A Model of Rational Retrials in Queues
10/16/2015 John Birge (University of Chicago)
Alternative Pricing Policies and Market Design in Electricity Markets
10/2/2015 Terry Taylor (University of California, Berkeley)
Testing by Competitors in Enforcement of Product Standards
9/4/2015 Alain Bensoussan (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Base Stock List Price Policy in Continuous Time
Spring 2015
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
5/4/2015 Li Chen (Duke University)
Mitigating Supplier Responsibility Risk in Emerging Economies: An Ethical Sourcing Framework
3/27/2015 Xing Hu (University of Oregon)
Trust and Reciprocity in Firms’ Capacity Sharing
2/20/2015 Ying Xu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Combating Child Labor: Incentives and Information Transparency in Global Supply Chains
2/16/2015 Yiangos Papanastasiou (London Business School)
Crowdsourcing Exploration
2/13/2015 Lin Wei Xin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
New Approaches to Inventory Control: Algorithms and Asymptotics
2/6/2015 Ahmet Serdar Simsek (Cornell University)
Who Should Set the Prices? Analysis of Pricing Decentralization in Customized Pricing Systems
2/2/2015 Yao Cui (University of Michigan)
Should Event Organizers Prevent Resale of Tickets?
1/30/2015 Kris Johnson (MIT)
Data-Driven Retail Revenue Management
1/26/2015 Ruth Beer (University of Michigan)
The Signaling and Incentive Effects of Supplier Awards
1/23/2015 Daniela Saban (Columbia University)
Procurement Mechanisms for Differentiated Products
1/16/2015 Maxime Cohen (MIT)
When Data Analytics Meets Promotion Pricing
1/12/2015 George Ball (University of Minnesota)
Plant Inspection Outcomes and Product Recalls: The Role of Inspector Experience
Fall 2014
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
12/5/2014 Volodymyr Babich (Georgetown University)
Franchise Contracting: The Effects of The Entrepreneur’s Timing Option and Debt Financing
11/14/2014 Gustavo Vulcano (New York University)
A Market Discovery Algorithm to Estimate a General Class of Non-Parametric Choice Models
10/24/2014 Kevin Shang (Duke University)
Joint Inventory and Cash Management for Multi-Divisional Supply Chains
10/3/2014 Shengqi Ye / Anyan Qi (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Campaign Earlier or Later? Sponsored Search Advertising when Customers Re-click / Investing in a Shared Supplier in a Competitive Market: Stochastic Capacity Case
9/19/2014 Alex Angelus (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Knowledge You Can Act On: Optimal Policies for Assembly Systems with Expediting and Advance Demand Information
9/5/2014 John Semple (Southern Methodist University)
A Dynamic Model of Shopping and Consumption
Spring 2014
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
3/21/2014 Vishal Gaur (Cornell University)
Systematic Risk in Supply Chain Networks
2/21/2014 Ling Dong (Washington University in St. Louis)
IBM Vision of Advanced Analytics
Fall 2013
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
11/1/2013 Pierre Haren (IBM)
IBM Vision of Advanced Analytics
10/11/2013 Mahesh Nagarajan (The University of British Columbia)
Invariance Results for Games with Dynamic Stability
10/4/2013 Mark Spearman (Factory Physics)
Of Physics and “Factory Physics”
09/13/2013 Laurens Debo (The University of Chicago)
Herding in a Queue
9/6/2013 Sridhar Tayur (Carnegie Mellon University)
Operations Management in Practice: Schumpeter’s Capitalism, State Capitalism and “Rawlsian” Capitalism
Spring 2013
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
4/5/2013 Lauren Lu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Dynamic Bargaining in a Supply Chain with Asymmetric Demand Information
4/1/2013 Dorothee Honhon (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
Learning Consumer Tastes Through Dynamic Assortments: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches
3/1/2013 Santiago Gallino (University of Pennsylvania)
Does Inventory Increase Sales? The Billboard and Scarcity Effects in U.S. Automobile Dealerships
2/20/2013 Sang Won Kim (Columbia University)
Measuring the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural Estimation Approach
2/15/2013 Santiago Balseiro (Columbia University)
Competition and Yield Optimization in Online Display Advertising Exchanges
2/8/2013 Naveed Chehrazi (Stanford University)
Monotone Approximation of Decision Problems
2/1/2013 Seyed Emadi (Northwestern University)
Empirical Analysis of Callers’ Delay Sensitivity in Call Centers
1/25/2013 Yan Yin (University of Michigan)
Procurement Auctions with Error-Prone RFQs
1/18/2013 Guangwen Kong (University of Southern California)
Revenue Sharing and Information Leakage in a Supply Chain
Fall 2012
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
9/28/2012 Hongmin Li (Arizona State University)
Managing Multiple Differentiated Technology Products: Models of Optimal Pricing and Long-Range Forecasting
9/14/2012 Robert Phillips (Columbia University)
Endogeneity in Price Sensitivity Estimation in Customized Pricing
Spring 2012
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
3/23/2012 Yossi Aviv (Washington University in St. Louis)
Dynamic Pricing of Fashion Products: The Effects of Demand Learning and Strategic Consumer Behavior
2/24/2012 Hao Zhang (University of Southern California)
Dynamic Performance-Based Business Share Allocation in a Supply Chain with Competing Suppliers
2/10/2012 Yinghao Zhang (University of Minnesota)
Buyback versus Revenue Sharing Contracts: Influence of Loss Aversion
1/27/2012 Elena Katok (Penn State)
When Does It Pay to Delay Supplier Qualification? Theory and Experiments
1/20/2012 Jordan Tong (Duke University)
Inventory Management and Supply Chain Finance: Theory and Empirics
Fall 2011
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
12/2/2011 Katariina Kempainnen (Nokia)
Sales & Operations Planning Practices and Research Opportunities
10/14/2011 Retsef Levi (MIT)
Near-Optimal LP-Based Policies for Revenue Management of Reusable Resources
10/7/2011 George Shanthikumar (Purdue)
When Does More Information-Gathering Lead To More Production?
9/30/2011 Guoming Lai (The University of Texas at Austin)
Supply Chain Performance Under Market Valuation: An Operational Approach to Restore Efficiency
9/23/2011 Elena Katok (Penn State)
Designing Contracts for Irrational but Predictable Newsvendors
Spring 2011
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
3/25/2011 Asoo Vakharia (University of Florida)
Wholesale Pricing in Decentralized Supply Chains: The Case of Uniform vs. Retailer-Specific Pricing; Integrating Environmental Considerations and Consumer Propensity in Channel Design
3/11/2011 Martin Lariviere (Northwestern University)
Would the Social Planner Let Bags Fly Free?
2/14/2011 Ruben Lobel (MIT)
Consumer Choice Model for Forecasting Demand and Designing Incentives for Solar Technology
1/28/2011 Karen Zheng (Stanford)
Trust in Forecast Information Sharing
1/21/2011 Andrew Davis (Penn State)
An Experimental Investigation of Pull Contracts
1/18/2011 Sripad Devalkar (University of Michigan)
Dynamic Risk Management of Commodity Operations: Model and Analysis
1/14/2011 Tingliang Huang (Northwestern University)
Are You Willing to Click? On the Value of Advance Demand Information When Selling to Strategic Customers
Fall 2010
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
11/12/2010 Victor Araman (American University of Beirut)
Optimal Pricing Under Uniform Allocation Policy: A Model for Online Advertising
11/5/2010 Alp Muharremoglu (Columbia University)
Analysis of Single-Stage, Serial and Assemble-to-Order Systems Under Exogenous Lead Times
10/29/2010 Morgan Swink (Texas Christian University)
A Tale of Two Studies: Insights Into Competencies of Top Performing Supply Chains
10/15/2010 Canan Savaskan (SMU)
Optimal Reverse Channel Structure for Consumer Product Returns
9/24/2010 Sridhar Seshadri (The University of Texas at Austin)
Fixed versus Random Proportion Demand Models for Assortment Planning
9/17/2010 Georgia Perakis (MIT)
The “Price” of Retailer Asymmetry and Product Differentiation in a Competitive Supply Chain
9/10/2010 Feryal Erhun (Stanford)
Dynamic Dual Source Capacity Expansion Problem With Backorders
Spring 2010
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
5/22/2010 Aditya Jain (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India)
Differential Pricing for Information Sharing Under Competition
4/2/2010 Izak Duenyas (University of Michigan)
Sourcing Under Asymmetric Information
2/26/2010 Rene Caldentey (New York University)
Insider Trading With a Random Deadline
1/29/2010 John Hasenbein (The University of Texas at Austin)
Scheduling Semiconductor Wafer Fabs: Queueing, Simulation, and MDP’s
1/22/2010 Nicole DeHoratius (University of Chicago)
Retail Inventory Management when Records Are Inaccurate
Fall 2009
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
11/13/2009 John Birge (University of Chicago)
Estimate Effects in Large-Scale Optimization Models
10/30/2009 Alexandar Angelus (Singapore Management University)
Managing Capacitated Multiechelon Systems With Domain-Optimal Policies
10/23/2009 Rob Zuidwijk (Erasmus University, The Netherlands (UCLA) )
Extended Producer Responsibility Based on Cumulative Energy Demand Instead of Recovery Quota
10/16/2009 Ram Kuppuswamy and Aloke Mishra (Nokia Customer Logistics North America)
Supply Chain of the Future: A Nokia Perspective
10/2/2009 Douglas Morrice (The University of Texas at Austin)
Predicting and Selecting the Best Scenario in a Complex Dynamic Stochastic Process
9/18/2009 Steve Graves (MIT)
Strategic Safety Stocks in Supply Chains: Update on Recent Research
8/21/2010 Sreekumar Bhaskaran (SMU)
Implications of Channel Structure for Leasing or Selling of Durable Goods
Spring 2009
Date Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title
2/25/2009 Ozalp Ozer (Columbia University)
Forecast Information Sharing: The Role of Contracts, Behaviors and Timing
2/20/2009 Dorothee Honhon (The University of Texas at Austin)
Making the Most of Choice: Product Selection Under Heterogeneous Consumer Preferences
2/13/2009 Zhixi Wan (University of Michigan)
Procurement Auctions With Supplier Qualification Screening
2/9/2009 Xin Chen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Inventory Centralization Games
1/30/2009 Enis Kayis (Stanford)
Delegation vs. Control of Component Procurement Under Asymmetric Cost Information and Price-Only Contracts
1/23/2009 Erkut Sonmez (Carnegie Mellon University)
Model-based Analysis of Liquefied Natural Gas Regasification Technologies
1/16/2009 Michael Metzger (MIT)
Avoiding the Eye of the Storm
 

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