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2006-07 Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

 

Spring 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

April 11

Ozalp Ozer
Stanford University-MS&E Department

Competing on Time: An Integrated Framework to Optimize Dynamic Time-to-Market and Production Decisions

Abstract [ PDF 12KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/S151

May 3
Thursday

Avi Seidmann
University of Rochester

ASP On-Demand versus MOTS In-House Software Solutions

[ PDF 173KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/S172

May 9
Wednesday

Edward Kaplan
Yale University

Modeling a Presidential Prediction Market

[ PDF 10KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L109

May 16
Wednesday

Stefanos Zenios
Stanford Graduate School
of Business

The Kidney Allocation Conundrum: Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies

Draft
[ PDF 10KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/S172

June 6

Andrew McAfee
Harvard Business School

Is There Evidence that IT Matters?: Recent Changes in the Competitive Dynamics of US Industries and their Association with IT Intensity

Abstract [ PDF 10KB]

Paper [ PDF 163KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L107

 

Winter 2007

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

January 11

Baris Ata
Northwestern University

Bid Price Controls for Network Revenue Management

4:00-5:00 pm/L107

January 25

Ben Edelman[ PDF 16KB]
Harvard University

Bidding for Sponsored Link Advertisements at Internet Search Engines (Abstract)

[ PDF 7KB]

Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords

[ PDF 223KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L107

February 6
Tuesday

Dimitris Bertsimas
MIT Sloan

Prediction of Health Care Costs Via Data-Mining and Algorithmic Discovery of Medical Knowledge

Abstract
[ PDF 02KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/S170

February 13
Tuesday

Marcelo Olivares[ PDF 26KB]
University of Pennsylvania

Competing Retailers and Inventory: An Empirical Investigation of U.S. Automobile Dealerships

[ PDF 310KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L107

February 14
Wednesday

Omar Besbes [ PDF 49KB]
Columbia University

Blind Nonparametric Revenue Management

[ PDF 304KB]

Abstract [ PDF 7KB]

Noon-1:15 pm/S172

February 15

Melda Ormeci [ PDF 30KB]
Georgia Institute of Technology

Impulse Control of Brownian Motion: The Constrained Average Cost Case

[ PDF 323KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L107

February 27
Tuesday

Ana Radovanovic [ PDF 26KB]
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Profitable Workforce Management in the Presence of Uncertainties

Abstract [ PDF 9.68KB]

Based on:

Noon-1:15 pm/L107

March 16
Friday

Wedad Elmaghraby
University of Maryland

Auction design with Non-Convex Costs: An Experimental Approach

Abstract [ PDF 11KB]

Noon-1:00 pm/L103

 

Fall 2006

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

October 5

Xuanming Su
UC Berkeley

Inter-temporal Pricing with Strategic Customer Behavior

[ PDF 258KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L103

October 12

Avishai Mandelbaum
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Data Based Service-Research: Engineering, Science, Management

Data MOCCA = Data MOdels for Call Centers Analysis

Abstract [ PDF 16KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L103

October 19

Edwin Romeijn
University of Florida

Radiation Therapy Treatment Plan Optimization: Models and Algorithms

Abstract [ PDF 10KB]

Related Paper [ PDF 487KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L103

November 9

Nicos Savva [ PDF 69KB]
University of Cambridge

Real Options in Partnerships (joint work with Stefan Scholtes)

[ PDF 378KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L103

November 16

Terry Taylor
Columbia University

Incentives for Retailer Forecasting: Rebates versus Returns

[ PDF 304KB]

Abstract [ PDF 9.54KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L103

November 29

Nick McKeown
Stanford Electrical Engineering Department

 

Noon-1:00 pm/L107

November 30

Jeremie Gallien
MIT

Inventory Management of a Fast-Fashion Retail Network (joint work with Felipe Caro, UCLA)

Abstract [ PDF 12KB]

 

4:00-5:00 pm/L103

December 8

Mor Armony [ PDF 82KB]
New York University

Cross Selling in Call Centers

Abstract [ PDF 62KB]

When Promotions Meet Operations: Cross-Selling and Its Effect on Call-Center Performances

[ PDF 439KB]

Cross-Selling in a Call Center with a Heterogeneous Customer Population

[ PDF 363KB]

4:00-5:00 pm/L103