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Faculty Seminars

 

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.

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