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Martin Lariviere

Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

BA (1988), Economics, Yale University; Ph.D. (1995), Business, Stanford University

 
Academic Positions Held
 
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2000–Present
Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, 2007-Present
Professor (by courtesy), Industrial Engineering and Management Science, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 2007-Present
Associate Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, 2000-2007

The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1995-1999
Associate Professor of Operations Management, 1999 - 2000
Assistant Professor of Operations Management, 1995-1999

 

 

Courses / Topics Taught

 

Operations Management
Service Operations

   
Professional Leadership
 
President, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS, June 2007 to present.
Executive Vice President/President Elect, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS, June 2006 to June 2007.
Vice President – Meetings and Communications, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS, June 2005 to June 2006.
Co-Chair, annual meeting of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS, June 2005, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Director, Center for Operations and Supply Chain Management Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2004 to present
Associate Editor/Senior Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, January 2003 to present.
Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, July 2007 to present.

Associate Editor, Management Science, July 2000 to January, 2006.

Associate Editor, Operations Research, January 2000 to December, 2005.

 

 

Research Areas

  Economics of operations management, incentives in operations, supply chain management and contracting, and service management.

 

 

Awards

  2007 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Best Paper for Strategically Seeking Service: How Competition Can Generate Poisson Arrivals with Jan A. Van Mieghem,   Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

 

 

Current Projects

 

Asymmetric Information and Economies-of-Scale in Service Contracting, with Mustafa Akan and Bariş Ata

Are Reservations Recommended?, with Alexei Alexandrov

   
Representative Publications
 
"A Note on Probability Distributions with Increasing Generalized Failure Rates", Operations Research, 54, 3 (May-June 2006), 602-604.
"Managing Service Inventory to Improve Performance", with Sunil Chopra, Sloan Management Review, 41, 1 (Fall 2005) 56-63.
"Supply Chain Coordination with Revenue-Sharing Contracts: Strengths and Limitations," with Gérard P. Cachon, revised November 2002, Management and Science (forthcoming).
"Strategically Seeking Service: How Competition Can Generate Poisson Arrivals", with Jan A. Van Mieghem, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 6, 1 (Winter 2004), 23-40.
"Selling to the Newsvendor: An Analysis of Price-Only Contract," with Evan L. Porteus, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 3, 4 (Fall, 2001), 293-305.
"Contracting to Assure Supply: How to Share Demand Forecasts in a Supply Chain," with Gérard P. Cachon, Management Science, 47, 5 (May 2001), 629-646.
"Supply Chain Contracting and Coordination with Stochastic Demand", Quantitative Models of Supply Chain Management, S. Tayur, R. Ganeshan, and M. Magazine (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.
"Capacity Choice and Allocation: Strategic Behavior and Supply Chain Performance," with Gérard P. Cachon, Management Science, 45, 8 (August 1999), 1091-1108.
"Capacity Allocation Using Past Sales: When to Turn-and-Earn," with Gérard P. Cachon, Management Science, 45, 5 (May 1999), 685-703.
"Stalking Information: Bayesian Inventory Management with Unobserved Lost Sales," with Evan L. Porteus, Management Science, 45, 3 (March 1999), 346-363.
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