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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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Chaithanya Bandi
Professor Bandi studies how firms can optimize decisions in situations with limited information.
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Jan A. Van Mieghem
Professor Van Mieghem studies supply chain operations from a strategic and tactical perspective.
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Martin Lariviere
In a recent study, Professor Lariviere considers the costs and benefits of assigning customers to priority queues.
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Robust transient analysis of multi-server queueing systems and feed-forward networks
Chaithanya Bandi, Dimitris Bertsimas, Nataly Youssef, Queueing Systems, 2018 |
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Platform Flexibility Strategies: Investment versus Customization Tradeoff
Maud Van den Broeke, Robert Boute, Jan A. Van Mieghem, European Journal of Operations Research, 2018 |
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A Concise Characterization of Strong Knapsack Facets
Sunil Chopra, Sangho Shim, Daniel Steffy, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2018 |
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Heavy traffic approximation for the stationary distribution of a generalized Jackson network: The BAR approach
Anton Braverman, Jim Dai, Masakiyo Miyazawa, Stochastic Systems, 2017 |
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Coverage, Coarseness and Classification: Determinants of Social Efficiency in Priority Queues
Martin Lariviere, Itai Gurvich, Ozkan Can, Management Science, 2017 |
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Worst Case Analysis of Strong Knapsack facets
Sunil Chopra, Sangho Shim, Wenwei Cao, Mathematical Programming, 2017 |
Operations News
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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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Here’s a Better Way to Schedule Surgeries Chaithanya Bandi, Kellogg Insight, September 05, 2018 |
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How “Speed Factories” Help Companies Adapt to Capricious Consumers Jan A. Van Mieghem, Kellogg Insight, July 03, 2018 |
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Take 5: What Science Says about Your Summer Vacation Achal Bassamboo, Kent Grayson, Thomas N. Hubbard, Maryam Kouchaki, Martin Lariviere, Derek D. Rucker, Kellogg Insight, July 03, 2018 |
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