Operations/Supply Chain Management Seminar Series

The Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas is privileged to host academic experts presenting their latest research on the most relevant topics facing our discipline today. Operations/Supply Chain Management Seminars are held every Fall and Spring semester.
For information about attending, please contact Lindsay Hamm.Date |
Spring 2013 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 04/05/2013 | Lauren Lu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) TBA |
| 04/01/2013 | Dorothee Honhon (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) Learning Consumer Tastes Through Dynamic Assortments: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches |
| 03/01/2013 | Santiago Gallino (University of Pennsylvania) Does Inventory Increase Sales? The Billboard and Scarcity Effects in U.S. Automobile Dealerships |
| 02/20/2013 | Sang Won Kim (Columbia University) Measuring the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural Estimation Approach |
| 02/15/2013 | Santiago Balseiro (Columbia University) Competition and Yield Optimization in Online Display Advertising Exchanges |
| 02/08/2013 | Naveed Chehrazi (Stanford University) Monotone Approximation of Decision Problems |
| 02/01/2013 | Seyed Emadi (Northwestern University) Empirical Analysis of Callers’ Delay Sensitivity in Call Centers |
| 01/25/2013 | Yan Yin (University of Michigan) Procurement Auctions with Error-Prone RFQs |
| 01/18/2013 | Guangwen Kong (University of Southern California) Revenue Sharing and Information Leakage in a Supply Chain |
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Fall 2012 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 12/14/2012 | George Georgiadis (UCLA) Projects and Team Dynamics |
| 12/07/2012 | Jingqi Wang (Northwestern University) Warranty Pricing with Product Failures and Forward Looking Consumers: an Empirical Approach |
| 11/09/2012 | Aydın Alptekinoğlu (Southern Methodist University) Optimal Design of Horizontally Differentiated Product Lines |
| 10/19/2012 | Damian Beil (University of Michigan) The Role of Cost Modeling in Competitive Bid Procurement |
| 10/04/2012 | Sarang Deo (Indian School of Business) Improving Diagnosis of HIV in Infants in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Early Findings |
| 09/28/2012 | Hongmin Li (Arizona State University) Managing Multiple Differentiated Technology Products: Models of Optimal Pricing and Long-Range Forecasting |
| 09/14/2012 | Robert Phillips (Columbia University) Endogeneity in Price Sensitivity Estimation in Customized Pricing |
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Spring 2012 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 03/23/2012 | Yossi Aviv (Washington University in St. Louis) Dynamic Pricing of Fashion Products: The Effects of Demand Learning and Strategic Consumer Behavior |
| 02/24/2012 | Hao Zhang (University of Southern California) Dynamic Performance-Based Business Share Allocation in a Supply Chain with Competing Suppliers |
| 02/10/2012 | Yinghao Zhang (University of Minnesota) Buyback versus Revenue Sharing Contracts: Influence of Loss Aversion |
| 01/27/2012 | Elena Katok (Penn State) When Does It Pay to Delay Supplier Qualification? Theory and Experiments |
| 01/20/2012 | Jordan Tong (Duke University) Inventory Management and Supply Chain Finance: Theory and Empirics |
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Fall 2011 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 12/02/2011 | Katariina Kempainnen (Nokia) Sales & Operations Planning Practices and Research Opportunities |
| 10/14/2011 | Retsef Levi (MIT) Near-Optimal LP-Based Policies for Revenue Management of Reusable Resources |
| 10/07/2011 | George Shanthikumar (Purdue) When Does More Information-Gathering Lead To More Production? |
| 09/30/2011 | Guoming Lai (The University of Texas at Austin) Supply Chain Performance Under Market Valuation: An Operational Approach to Restore Efficiency |
| 09/23/2011 | Elena Katok (Penn State) Designing Contracts for Irrational but Predictable Newsvendors |
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Spring 2011 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 03/25/2011 | Asoo Vakharia (University of Florida) Wholesale Pricing in Decentralized Supply Chains: The Case of Uniform vs. Retailer-Specific Pricing; Integrating Environmental Considerations and Consumer Propensity in Channel Design |
| 03/11/2011 | Martin Lariviere (Northwestern University) Would the Social Planner Let Bags Fly Free? |
| 02/14/2011 | Ruben Lobel (MIT) Consumer Choice Model for Forecasting Demand and Designing Incentives for Solar Technology |
| 01/28/2011 | Karen Zheng (Stanford) Trust in Forecast Information Sharing |
| 01/21/2011 | Andrew Davis (Penn State) An Experimental Investigation of Pull Contracts |
| 01/18/2011 | Sripad Devalkar (University of Michigan) Dynamic Risk Management of Commodity Operations: Model and Analysis |
| 01/14/2011 | Tingliang Huang (Northwestern University) Are You Willing to Click? On the Value of Advance Demand Information When Selling to Strategic Customers |
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Fall 2010 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 11/12/2010 | Victor Araman (American University of Beirut) Optimal Pricing Under Uniform Allocation Policy: A Model for Online Advertising |
| 11/5/2010 | Alp Muharremoglu (Columbia University) Analysis of Single-Stage, Serial and Assemble-to-Order Systems Under Exogenous Lead Times |
| 10/29/2010 | Morgan Swink (Texas Christian University) A Tale of Two Studies: Insights Into Competencies of Top Performing Supply Chains |
| 10/15/2010 | Canan Savaskan (SMU) Optimal Reverse Channel Structure for Consumer Product Returns |
| 09/24/2010 | Sridhar Seshadri (The University of Texas at Austin) Fixed versus Random Proportion Demand Models for Assortment Planning |
| 09/17/2010 | Georgia Perakis (MIT) The “Price” of Retailer Asymmetry and Product Differentiation in a Competitive Supply Chain |
| 09/10/2010 | Feryal Erhun (Stanford) Dynamic Dual Source Capacity Expansion Problem With Backorders |
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Spring 2010 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 05/22/2010 | Aditya Jain (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India) Differential Pricing for Information Sharing Under Competition |
| 04/02/2010 | Izak Duenyas (University of Michigan) Sourcing Under Asymmetric Information |
| 02/26/2010 | Rene Caldentey (New York University) Insider Trading With a Random Deadline |
| 01/29/2010 | John Hasenbein (The University of Texas at Austin) Scheduling Semiconductor Wafer Fabs: Queueing, Simulation, and MDP’s |
| 01/22/2010 | Nicole DeHoratius (University of Chicago) Retail Inventory Management when Records Are Inaccurate |
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Fall 2009 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 11/13/2009 | John Birge (University of Chicago) Estimate Effects in Large-Scale Optimization Models |
| 10/30/2009 | Alexandar Angelus (Singapore Management University) Managing Capacitated Multiechelon Systems With Domain-Optimal Policies |
| 10/23/2009 | Rob Zuidwijk (Erasmus University, The Netherlands (UCLA) ) Extended Producer Responsibility Based on Cumulative Energy Demand Instead of Recovery Quota |
| 10/16/2009 | Ram Kuppuswamy and Aloke Mishra (Nokia Customer Logistics North America) Supply Chain of the Future: A Nokia Perspective |
| 10/02/2009 | Douglas Morrice (The University of Texas at Austin) Predicting and Selecting the Best Scenario in a Complex Dynamic Stochastic Process |
| 09/18/2009 | Steve Graves (MIT) Strategic Safety Stocks in Supply Chains: Update on Recent Research |
| 08/21/2010 | Sreekumar Bhaskaran (SMU) Implications of Channel Structure for Leasing or Selling of Durable Goods |
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Spring 2009 Guest Lecturer/Presentation Title |
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| 02/25/2009 | Ozalp Ozer (Columbia University) Forecast Information Sharing: The Role of Contracts, Behaviors and Timing |
| 02/20/2009 | Dorothee Honhon (The University of Texas at Austin) Making the Most of Choice: Product Selection Under Heterogeneous Consumer Preferences |
| 02/13/2009 | Zhixi Wan (University of Michigan) Procurement Auctions With Supplier Qualification Screening |
| 02/09/2009 | Xin Chen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Inventory Centralization Games |
| 01/30/2009 | Enis Kayis (Stanford) Delegation vs. Control of Component Procurement Under Asymmetric Cost Information and Price-Only Contracts |
| 01/23/2009 | Erkut Sonmez (Carnegie Mellon University) Model-based Analysis of Liquefied Natural Gas Regasification Technologies |
| 01/16/2009 | Michael Metzger (MIT) Avoiding the Eye of the Storm |




