Past Seminar Speakers

 

 
FALL 2012
 
John Birge, Professor of Operations Management and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, Operations Management, Booth Business, University of Chicago. Firm Profitability, Inventory Volatility, and Capital Structure.
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Milind Sohon, Associate Professor of Operations and Management Science, Operations and Mangement Science, India School of Business. Decentralizaton of Diagnostic Networks:  Access vs. Accuracy Trade-off and Network Externality.
 
Serguei Netessine, Chaired Professor of Technology and Operations Management, Technology and Operations Management Department, INSEAD. Are Consumers Strategic? Structural Estimation from the Air-Travel Industry.
 
Anita Tucker, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard Business School, Harvard.  Facilitating versus Forcing Employees’ Improvement-Oriented Behaviors: Laboratory Experiments on Organizational Levers for Learning from System Problems
 
 
 
 

SPRING 2012

Aydın Alptekinoğlu, Assistant Professor, Information Technology and Operations Management, Cox Business School, SMU. Flexible Products for Dynamic Needs 

Adam Mersereau, Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar and Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology, and Innovation Management, Kenan Flagler Business Schoo, University of North Carolina at Chapel hill. Initial Shipment Decisions for New Products at Zara

Sampath Rajagopalan, Professor of Information and Operations Management, Marshal School of Business, University of Southern California. Information and Operations Management Pricing and Operational Performance in Discretionary Services

Hyoduk Shin, Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences; Operations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Strategic Communication for Capacity Alignment with Pricing in a Supply Chain 

Vinod Singhal, Brady Family Professor of Operations Management, Associate Dean for MBA Program, Operations Management, College of Management, Georgia Tech.  An Empirical Investigation on the Appointments of Supply Chain and Operations Management Executives

 

FALL 2011 

Hyun-Soo Ahn, Associate Professor of Operations Management, The Ross School Of Business, University of Michigan. When Consumers Negotiate: Implications For Retailer And Supply Chain    

Feryal Erhun, Assistant Professor Management Science and Engineering, Terman Engineering Center, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Capacity Planning in the Semiconductor Industry: Dual-Mode Procurement with Options
 
Nicholas Hall, Professor of Management Sciences, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. What They Don’t Tell You in Graduate School about Academic Careers
 
Stefan Scholtes, Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management, Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University. Stress on the Ward: an Empirical Study of the Nonlinear Relationship between Organizational Workload and Service Quality
 
Gill Souza, Associate Professor of Operations Management, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Capacity Investment Decisions With Multiple Competing Technologies: A Portfolio Approach
 
Brad Staats, Assistant Professor of OTIM, Kenan Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hil. Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
 
 
 
SPRING 2011
 
Sarang Deo, Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Improving Access To Community-Based Chronic Care Through Improved Capacity Allocation
 
Vinayak Deshpande, Associate Professor Operations and Information Management, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
 
Jan Fransoo, Professor of Operations Management and Logistics, School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands
 
Dimitris Kostamis, Assistant Professor of OTIM, Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill. Optimal Selling to
Asymmetric Retailers
 
Gustavo Vulcano, Associate Professor, Information Operations and Management Sciences, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU. Revenue Sharing in Airline Alliances 
 
 
FALL 2010 
Laurens Debo, Associate Professor, Operations Management, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
 
Amr Farahat, Assistant Professor, Operations Management, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
 
Diwas S. Kc, Assistant Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
 
Senthil Veeraraghavan, Associate Professor, OPIM Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 
 
 
SPRING 2010
 
Baris Ata, Associate Professor, Operations Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. A Broader View of Designing the Liver Allocation System
 
Rene Caldentey, Associate Professor, Operations Management, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
 
Xuanming Su, Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Technology Management Group, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
 
 
 
FALL 2009
 
Nicole DeHoratius, Professor, Operations Management, Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago and Zaragoza Logistics Center, Spain
 
Noah Gans, Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor; Professor of Operations and Information Management, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania
 
Michael Lapre, E. Bronson Ingram Research Professor, Operations Management, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
 
Martin Lariviere, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor, Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
 
Terry Taylor, Associate Professor, Business, Haas Operations and Information Technology Management Group, University of California @ Berkeley
 
Fuqaing Zhang, Associate Professor, Operations & Manufacturing Management, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis
 
 
 
SPRING 2009
 
Gad Allon, Associate Professor, Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
 
Karen Donohue, Associate Professor (CSOM Supply Chain & Operations), Carlson School of Management, Unniversity of Minnesota
 
Greys Sosic, Associate Professor, Information and Operations Management, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
 
 
 
FALL 2008
 
Costis Maglaras, David and Lyn Silfen Professor, Business, Decision, Risk and Operations Division, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
 
 
 
SPRING 2008
 
Marshall Fisher, Professor, Operations and Information Management, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
 
Roman Kapuscinsk, Professor, Operations and Management Science; Goff Smith Co-Director, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
 
Anath Raman, UPS Foundation Professor, Business Logistics, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
 
Sridhar Tayur, Ford Distinguished Research Chair; Professor, Operations Management, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
 
 
 
FALL 2007
 
Anant Balakrishnan, Professor, Information, Risk and Operations Management, McCombs Business School, University of Texas
 
Ozalp Ozer, Assistant Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
 
Hans Sebastian (Seb) Heese, Associate Professor, Department of Operations and Decision Technologies, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University
 
 
 
FALL 2006
 
Tava Olsen, Professor, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
 
Subramanian Raghavan, Associate Professor, Management Science, Robert H. Smith School of Business & Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
 
Sampath Rajagopalan, Professor, Information and Operations Management, Information and Operations Management Department, Marshal School of Business, University of Southern California