Operations, Information & Technology Seminars: Faculty Seminars: Stanford GSB

Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

The GSB OIT Seminar is held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. If you have any questions regarding the seminar please email seminar organizer Tunay Tunca.

Meet the Speaker (for GSB faculty only)

Please select the link above to view the schedule or email Rochelle Bagalso for an appointment.

Spring 2008	Speaker	Title	Time/Place
April 2	Franklin Dexter University of Iowa	Empirical Analyses to Quantify Reductions in Cost from Reducing Non-Value Added Time in Operating Rooms	12:00-1:00 PM S150
April 9	Seminar Cancelled
April 16	No Seminar		12:00-1:00 PM S150
April 23	Achal Bassamboo Northwestern University	A Little Flexibility is All You Need: Optimality of Tailored Chaining and Pairing	12:00-1:00 PM L103
April 30	No Seminar		12:00-1:00 PM L103
May 7	Barrie Nault University of Calgary	Vertically Differentiated Information Goods: Monopoly Power Through Versioning	12:00-1:00 PM L103
May 14	Kartik Hosanagar University of Pennsylvania	Blockbuster Culture's Next Rise or Fall: the Impact of Recommender Systems on Sales Diversity	12:00-1:00 PM L103
May 21	Itir Karaesmen Univeristy of Maryland		12:00-1:00 PM L103
May 28			12:00-1:00 PM L103
June 4			12:00-1:00 PM L103

Winter 2008	Speaker	Title	Time/Place
January 9	Sam Savage MS&E Stanford University	Probability Management Abstract	12:00-1:00 pm L107
January 16	Feng Zhu Harvard Business School	Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations	12:00-1:00 pm S152
January 23	Richard Lai Harvard Business School	Is Inventory's Fiscal Year end Effect Caused by Sales Timing? A Test Using a Natural Experiment from Germany	11:45-12:45 pm S172
January 30	Itay Gurvich Columbia University	Service-Level Differentiation in Many-Server Service Systems: A solution Based on Fixed-Queue-Ratio Routing Abstract	11:45-12:45 pm S171
February 5 Tuesday	Mustafa Akan Northwestern University	Revenue Management by Sequential Screening	12:00-1:00 pm S150
February 13	Margaret Bjarnadottir Massachusetts Institute of Tech	Algorithmic Prediction of Health Care Costs and Discovery of Medical Knowledge	11:45-12:45 pm S151
February 20	Robert Swinney University of Pennsylvania	Who Has the Hot Product? Selling to Strategic Consumers When Product Value is Uncertain	11:45-12:45 pm S172
March 5	Diwas KC University of Pennsylvania	An Econometric Analysis of Patient Flows in the Cardiac ICU	11:45-12:45 pm S151
March 19	Enver Yucesan INSEAD	Multi-LocationTransshipment Problem with Capacitated Production	12:00-1:00 pm S172

Fall 2007	Speaker	Title	Time/Place
October 2 Tuesday	Jan Van Mieghem Northwestern University	Operations Strategy and Operations Research: An Example Supporting Paper: The Value of Dynamic Resource Pooling: Should a Service Network be Integrated or Product-Focused	12:00-1:00 pm/L107
October 17	James Dana Northeastern University/HBS	Internet Penetration and Capacity Utilization in the US Airline Industry	12:00-1:00 pm/L107
October 31	Donald Lee Stanford University	Evidence-Based Incentive Systems with an Application in Health Care Delivery	12:00-1:00 pm/L107
November 14	Rodney Parker Yale University	Inventory Management Under Market Size Dynamics	12:00-1:00 pm/L107
November 28	Shmuel Oren UC Berkeley	Modeling and Computing Two-Settlement Oligopolistic Equilibrium in a Congested Electricity Network	12:00-1:00 pm/S172