2008-09 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 Robert Swinney.
- Meet the Speaker (for GSB faculty only)
Please select the link above to view the schedule and email Stacy Diaz for an appointment.
Spring 2009 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 10 Friday |
Balaji Prabhakar Stanford University |
An Incentive Mechanism to Decongest the Roads: A Pilot Program in Bangalore, India (Abstract) | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| April 15 |
No Seminar | ||
| April 22 | No Seminar | ||
| April 29 | Anita Tucker Harvard Business School |
Learn How to Improve Collaboration and Performance | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| May 6 | No Seminar | ||
| May 13 | Sergei Savin Columbia University |
Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments: A Queueing Approach (Abstract) | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| May 20 | Michael Toffel Harvard Business School |
12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
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| May 27 | Harikesh Nair Stanford University |
Quota Dynamics and the Intertemporal Allocation of Sales-Force Effort | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| June 3 | No Seminar |
Winter 2009 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 Tuesday |
Florin Niculescu Stanford University |
3:45-5:00 PB L103 |
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| January 7 | Guillermo Gallego Columbia University |
Upgrades, Upsells and Pricing in Revenue Management Appendix |
3:45-5:00 PM S152 |
| January 21 | Nicola Secomandi Carnegie Mellon University |
An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Benchmark Practice-based Heuristics for Natural Gas Storage Valuation | 12:00-1:00 PM S161 |
| February 4 | No Seminar | ||
| February 11 | Andrew Schaefer University of Pittsburgh |
Estimating the Patient's Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation | 12:00-1:00 PM L107 |
| March 4 | Tava Olsen Washington University-St. Louis |
Service Capacity Competition with Peak Arrivals and Delay Sensitive Customers | 12:00-1:00 PM S161 |
| March 11 | Mark Ferguson Georgia Tech |
The Use of Relicensing Fees in the IT Industry as a Secondary Market Strategy Related Paper: Strategic Issues in Closed-Loop Supply Chains with Remanufacturing |
12:00-1:00 PM S161 |
Fall 2008 |
Speaker |
Title |
Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | Andres Hervas-Drane Columbia Business School |
Word of Mouth and Recommender Systems: A Theory of the Long Tail | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| October 8 | Kamalini Ramdas Darden, University of Virginia |
An Empirical Investigation into the Tradeoffs that Impact On-Time Performance in the Airline Industry | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| October 22 | Ramandeep Randhawa University of Texas at Austin |
Optimal Flexibility Configurations in Newsvendor Networks: Going beyond Chaining and Pairing (Draft) | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| November 7 Friday |
Pinar Keskinocak Georgia Institute of Technology |
Two Applications of OR/MS in Health Care (Abstract) Related Paper: Catch-up Scheduling for Childhood Vaccination |
12:00-1:00 PM L103 |
| November 19 | Karl Ulrich Univeristy of Pennsylvania |
Innovation Tournaments (Abstract) | 12:00-1:00 PM L103 |