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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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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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Sunil Chopra
Recently published research looks at eco-activities and operating performance in the electronics industry.
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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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One Healthcare System’s Race to Distribute the COVID-19 Vaccine Achal Bassamboo, Kellogg Insight, April 01, 2021 |
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This simple change would eliminate much of the COVID-19 vaccination chaos Achal Bassamboo, MarketWatch, March 31, 2021 |
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How the push to make more COVID vaccines is squeezing this Chicago-area drugmaker Tarek Abdallah, Crain's Chicago Business, March 12, 2021 |
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2 Ways to Improve Rideshares for Drivers and Customers Anton Braverman, Sebastien Martin, Kellogg Insight, March 01, 2021 |
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Are “Menu Costs” Messing Up Your Supply Chain? Robert Bray, Kellogg Insight, January 04, 2021 |
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