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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
Professor Bassamboo researches service systems, revenue management and information sharing.
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Anton Braverman
Professor Braverman’s research is focused on stochastic modelling and applied probability.
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Sunil Chopra
Professor Chopra recently published research on eco-activities and operating performance in the electronics industry.
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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 |
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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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Does the Past Predict the Future? The Case of Delay Announcements in Service Systems
Achal Bassamboo, Mor Armony, Rouba Ibrahim, Management Science, 2016 |
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Collaboration and multitasking in networks: Prioritization and Achievable Capacity
Jan A. Van Mieghem, Itai Gurvich, Management Science, 2016 |
Operations News
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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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How the Potato Ushered in an Era of Peace Nancy Qian, Kellogg Insight, May 02, 2018 |
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Localized Natural Disasters Can Hurt an Entire Country’s Economy Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Kellogg Insight, February 02, 2018 |
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Kellogg welcomes seven tenure-line faculty members for the 2017-18 academic year Karlan_Dean, Nancy Qian, Ponticelli_Jacopo, Tahbaz-Salehi_Alireza, Dong_Ping, Youn_Hyejin, Braverman_ Anton, Kathleen Hagerty, October 18, 2017 |
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Kellogg School faculty publish books to empower business leaders Mohanbir Sawhney, Leigh Thompson, Alexander Chernev, Anne Coughlan, Moran Cerf, Sunil Chopra, Justin Craig , Amy Schuman, August 11, 2017 |
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