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Gad Allon

Gad Allon

Donald P. Jacobs Scholar in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

PhD, Columbia U, 2005; M.Sc, Technion, 2001; B.Sc, Technion,1995

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, 2006-Present
Assistant Professor in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

   
 

Kellogg School of Management, 2005-2006.
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

   
  Columbia University, 2001-2004.
Teaching Assistant
   
  Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1999-2001.
Teaching Assistant
   
Research / Teaching Interests
 

Application areas:
• Service Operations
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management

Methodological areas:
• Game Theory
• Queueing Theory
• Simulation
• Empirical Analysis and Statistical Estimation

Professor Allon's Course Page

   
Current Projects
  "The Benefits of Capacity Pooling in Decentralized Service Industries" (with A. Federgruen), In preparation.
   
  "Estimating Simulation Run Length for Queues with Reneging Customers" (with N. Tore and W. Whitt), In preparation.
   
Representative Publications
   
  "Application of the Cross‐Entropy Method to the Buffer Allocation Problem in a Simulation-Based Environment" (With D.P. Kroese, T. Raviv and R.Y. Rubinstein) Annals of Operations Research, 134(1), 2005.
   
  "Competition in Service Industries" (With A. Federgruen) Operations Research, 2007.
   
  "Entropic Nonparametric Estimation of Concave Production Technologies" (With M. Beenstock, S. Hackman, U. Passy, and A. Shapiro) Forthcoming in Journal of Applied Econometrics.
   
  "Competition in Service Industries with Segmented Markets" (With A. Federgruen) Under Submission for Management Science.
   
  "Service Competition with General Queueing Facilities" (With A. Federgruen). Forthcoming in Operations Research.
   
  "Outsourcing Service Processes to a Common Service Provider under Price and Time Competition" (With A. Federgruen) , Under submission for MSOM.
   
  "On the Relationship Between Pricing and Capacity Decisions in Inventory Systems with Stochastic Demand" (With A. Zeevi) Under Submission.
   
  "Solving the Buffer Allocation Problem Using the Cross Entropy Method" (With T. Raviv and R.Y. Rubinstein). Extended abstract in the proceedings of the 3rd Aegean International Conference on Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Tinos, Greece, May 2001.
   
General / Consulting
   
  El-Al (Israeli National Airlines), 2004-Present.
Consultant
   
  I.S.G. - (Attunity)
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