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Faculty in the Operations Department examine how firms design and manage their activities and resources to achieve their strategic goals.
Through both theoretical and empirical research, the faculty study a wide range of industries including retail, transportation, and healthcare. In both research and teaching, faculty consider not just traditional manufacturing topics but also supply chains and services.
Operations faculty include a number of noted, award-winning scholars who have published both scholarly articles and textbooks.
Department faculty publish in academic journals as well as produce managerial-oriented articles and textbooks. Multiple faculty members have won scholarly awards for individual papers as well as career achievement awards such as being named Distinguished Fellows of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.
Operations faculty members have held numerous editorial positions at top publications, such as Operations Research, Management Science, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Individual faculty have also taken on leadership roles in professional organizations, such as Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society and the Applied Probability Society.
Through both theoretical and empirical research, the faculty study a wide range of industries including retail, transportation, and healthcare. In both research and teaching, faculty consider not just traditional manufacturing topics but also supply chains and services.
Department faculty publish in academic journals as well as produce managerial-oriented articles and textbooks. Multiple faculty members have won scholarly awards for individual papers as well as career achievement awards such as being named Distinguished Fellows of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.
Operations faculty members have held numerous editorial positions at top publications, such as Operations Research, Management Science, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Individual faculty have also taken on leadership roles in professional organizations, such as Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society and the Applied Probability Society.
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Tarek Abdallah
Professor Abdallah's "On the Benefit (Or Cost) of Large‐Scale Bundling" was published in Production and Operations Management.
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Robert Bray
Professor Bray studies supply chains; his recent research estimates the effect of supply chain proximity on product quality.
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Maria Rosario Ibanez
Professor Ibanez' research explores how data-driven systems can lead individuals to make better decisions.
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Empty-car routing in ridesharing systems
Anton Braverman, Jim Dai, Xin Liu, Ying Lei, Operations Research, 2019 |
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Resident Supervision and Patient Care: A Comparative Time Study in a Community-Academic versus a Community Emergency Department.
Itai Gurvich, Ernest E Wang, Jan A. Van Mieghem, Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, 2019 |
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On the Benefit (Or Cost) of Large‐Scale Bundling
Tarek Abdallah, Production and Operations Management, 2019 |
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Welfare Implications of Inventory-driven Dynamic Pricing,
Ioannis Stamatopoulos, N. Chehrazi, Achal Bassamboo, Management Science, 2019 |
Operations News
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Amazon is rapidly expanding its air fleet to handle more of its own shipping, but FedEx isn't worried Tarek Abdallah, CNBC.com, February 13, 2019 |
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Attention Passengers: Your Next Flight Will Likely Arrive Early. Here’s Why. Yuval Salant, Jan A. Van Mieghem, Kellogg Insight, November 06, 2018 |
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Amazon is Packing More Stuff into Warehouses and is Considering a Change in How it Measures Space Tarek Abdallah, CNBC.com, November 04, 2018 |
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A Counterintuitive Way to Keep Shelves Stocked and Prices Down Robert Bray, Kellogg Insight, October 04, 2018 |
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Battling Amazon: Chicago-based ShipBob lands $40M, opens Cicero warehouse Sunil Chopra, Chicago Tribune, September 06, 2018 |
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