11th Annual Behavioral Operations Conference, 2016

Registration

The register and payment buttons are located on the top of this webpage. Please note the following key deadlines:

• Extended-Abstract Submission (1-page limit) for Main Conference and/or Young Scholars Workshop: April 15, 2016
• Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2016
• Registration Deadline: May 25, 2016
• Hotel special rate: as early as Wednesday, June 1, 2016 (varies by location).
• Conference fees are $150 for faculty and $50 for students.

If you are interested in presenting at the main conference or the Young Scholars Workshop, please indicate so when you register and include an extended abstract (one-page limit) of your work. Please also indicate who will present in the abstract.

Contact

Please contact Jordan Tong with any questions or inquiries.

Past Conferences

• 10th Annual Behavioral Operations Conference, 2015

Download main conference schedule.

The main conference begins Thursday evening, July 14, with a welcome reception. It continues Friday, July 15, and Saturday, July 16. Presentations are held in a single-track in the plenary room. Please see the registration page for submission instructions. The conference dinner will be on Friday, July 15, at the Pyle Center overlooking Lake Mendota.

This year, our keynote speaker is George Wu, from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. George Wu studies the psychology of individual, managerial and organizational decision-making; decision analysis; and cognitive biases in bargaining and negotiation. Additionally, he has received research funding as part of a three-year, $3.6 million project titled “Enhancing the Human Experience through Behavioral Science: New Paths to Purpose,” to advance the behavioral science of purpose. Project research explores how people adopt, pursue and fulfill their intentions to accomplish something that is meaningful to the self, and often is of consequence to the world beyond the self.

Wu’s research has been published widely in a number of journals in economics, management science and psychology, including Cognitive Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Management Science, Psychological Science and the Quarterly Journal of Economic.

Prior to joining the Chicago Booth faculty in 1997, Wu was on the faculty of Harvard Business School as an assistant and associate professor in the managerial economics area and then in the negotiation and decision-making group. He also has worked as a lecturer at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to graduate school, Wu worked as a decision analyst at Procter & Gamble.

Wu is a former department editor of Management Science and is on numerous other editorial boards, including Decision Analysis, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty and Theory and Decision. He earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude in applied mathematics with a concentration in decision and control in 1985, a master’s degree in applied mathematics in 1987 and a PhD in decision sciences in 1991, all from Harvard University.

In addition, Elena Katok, from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas, will lead us in a hands-on activity on laboratory experiments using exciting new software, SoPHIE. Katok is a pioneer in the growing field of behavioral operations management. She helped establish the Behavioral Operations Management section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and has also served as its president. She also co-organized the first Behavioral Research in Operations Management conference, which was established in 2006.

Besides behavioral operations management, Katok’s research expertise includes market design and strategic procurement. Her research has been published in top business and economics journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. She is currently department editor for Behavioral Operations for Production and Operations Management, and associate editor for Management Science.

Before joining UT Dallas, she was a professor of supply chain management in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. She earned her bachelor of science degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance and economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her MBA from Pennsylvania State University, where she also earned her PhD in management science.