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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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Martin Lariviere
Professor Lariviere's research applies economic analysis to operations management problems.
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Itai Gurvich
Professor Gurvich's research interests incluce performance analysis and optimization of processing networks.
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Karen Smilowitz
Professor Smilowitz studies modeling and solution approaches for logistics and transportation systems.
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Optimal Dynamic Appointment Scheduling of Base and Surge Capacity
Benjamin Grant, Itai Gurvich, R Kannan Mutharasan, Jan A. Van Mieghem, M&SOM, 2021 |
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Achieving supply chain efficiency and resilience by using multi-level commons
Sunil Chopra, Florian Lucker, ManMohan Sodhi, Decision Sciences, 2021 |
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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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Steady-state analysis of the Join the Shortest Queue model in the Halfin-Whitt regime
Anton Braverman, Mathematics of Operations Research, 2020 |
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Concavity and Unimodality of Expected Revenue under Discrete Willingness to Pay Distributions
Martin Lariviere, Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen, Anh Ninh, Production and Operations Management, 2020 |
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Large-scale Bundle Size Pricing: A Theoretical Analysis
Tarek Abdallah, Josh Reed, Arash Asadpour, Operations Research, 2020 |
Operations News
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Looking to Further Digitize Your Operations? This Tool Can Help. Robert Boute, Jan A. Van Mieghem, Kellogg Insight, June 18, 2021 |
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How Companies Make Sure You Don’t Hang Up When You’re on Hold Achal Bassamboo, The Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2021 |
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How the Pandemic Will (and Won’t) Change Companies’ Operations Martin Lariviere, Kellogg Insight, May 03, 2021 |
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Are 'menu costs' messing up your supply chain? Robert Bray, Forbes India, April 30, 2021 |
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One Healthcare System’s Race to Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine Achal Bassamboo, Kellogg Insight, April 01, 2021 |
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