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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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Sunil Chopra
Recently published research looks at eco-activities and operating performance in the electronics industry.
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Achal Bassamboo
New research examines worker poaching between firms linked in a value chain.
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Martin Lariviere
A recent study considers how the priority queue chosen by a revenue-generating firm differs from the one a social planner would use.
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Worker Poaching in a Supply Chain: Enemy from Within?
Gad Allon, Achal Bassamboo, Evan Barlow, Managerial and Decision Economics, 2020 |
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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, Yue Yin, 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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Ration Gaming and the Bullwhip Effect
Robert Bray, Jiazhen Huo, Yuliang Yao, Operations Research, 2019 |
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Coverage, Coarseness and Classification: Determinants of Social Efficiency in Priority Queues
Martin Lariviere, Itai Gurvich, Ozkan Can, Management Science, 2019 |
Operations News
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Illinois will have to vaccinate 10 million people against COVID. What could go wrong? Tarek Abdallah, Crain’s Chicago Business, October 30, 2020 |
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Boston schools wanted to stagger start times to save on transportation costs and improve student health. Here's why parents were against it — and what it can teach us about pandemic planning. Sebastien Martin, Business Insider, October 11, 2020 |
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Researchers Designed an Algorithm to Save Schools Money and Improve Equity. The District Loved it. Then Things Got Messy. Sebastien Martin, Kellogg Insight, October 01, 2020 |
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From PPE to Denim and Beer, Here’s What the Pandemic Is Teaching Us about Supply Chains Martin Lariviere, Kellogg Insight, August 05, 2020 |
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New Center to Explore Effects of Telework, E-Commerce and Travel Demand Sunil Chopra, Northwestern McCormick, August 04, 2020 |
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