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R. Canan Savaskan-Ebert

Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

B.S., Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey, 1993.
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey, 1995.
M.S., Management, INSEAD Fontainebleau France, 1997.
Ph.D., Operations Management, INSEAD Fontainebleau France, 2000.

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2000 - present
Assistant Professor

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  Operations Management (MBA Core Course)
Managerial Decision Modeling (MBA Elective)
   
Professional Leadership
  Referee for Management Science
Referee for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Referee for Production and Operations Management
   
Research Areas
 

Incentives problems in decentralized supply chains : Focusing on reverse logistics, quality management and interface between manufacturing and marketing decisions.

   
Published Work
  "Closed-Loop Supply Chain Models with Product Remanufacturing" (with Shantanu Bhattacharya and Luk Van Wassenhove) Management Science, 2004 (50/2).
"Reverse Channel Design: The Case of Competing Retailers" (with Luk Van Wassenhove) Management Science, Forthcoming Management Science, 2006
   
Under Review
  "A Life Cycle Dynamic Pricing Model with Product Remanufacturing" (with Umut Aytekin) under review for Management Science.
"Optimal Product Returns Policies and Information Obfuscation: When Reducing Returns Reduces Profit" (with Jeff Schulman and Anne Coughlan ) Under review for Management Science.
   
Working Papers
  "External Quality Cost Contracting" (with Gary Chao and Seyed Iravani).
"Effect of Return Policies on Retail Competition" (with Jeff Schulman and Anne Coughlan).
"An Integrated Model of Forward and Reverse Distribution System Design" (with Kristin Sahyouni and Mark Daskin).
"On Managing Delivery Process Quality in Retailing Operations" (with Nicole DeHoratius and Sergio Chayet).
   
Other Publications
  “Coordination in Closed-Loop Supply Chains” (with L. Debo and L. Van Wassenhove) Appeared in Reverse Logistics: Quantitative Models for Closed-Loop Supply Chains. Springer 2003.
“Contracting and Coordination in Closed-Loop Supply Chains” (with Charles Corbett) Appeared in Business Aspects of Closed-Loop Supply Chains, International Management Series: Vol.2 by Carnegie Bosh Institute.
   
Conference Presentations
  Savaskan, R. C., "Product Take-Back and Channel Choice in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain," INFORMS, November 1999.
Savaskan, R. C., "Strategic Effort of Product Take-Back on Competing Retail Outlets," INFORMS, November 1999.
   
Other Projects
  Supply Chain Mapping at 3M France, INSEAD.
REVLOG: Reverse Logistics (EU Sponsored Research Project), INSEAD.
CDDN: Consumer Driven Demand Networks (with Andersen Consulting), INSEAD.
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