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Northwestern University |
Phone: (847) 491-5461 Fax: (847)
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2011 - Present |
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Operations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. |
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2007 - Present |
Professor, Operations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. |
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2007-2010 |
Professor (by courtesy), Industrial Engineering and
Management Science, Robert
R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois. |
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2000 – 2007 |
Associate Professor, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences,
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1999 – 2000 |
Associate Professor of Operations Management, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. |
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1995 – 1999 |
Assistant Professor of Operations Management, The Fuqua School of
Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. |
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1988 – 1989 |
Research Associate, Charles River Associates,
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1989
– 1995 |
Graduate
School of Business, Stanford
University Ph.D. in Business. Jaedicke
Merit Fellowship, |
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1984
– 1988 |
B.A. in
Economics. Magna Cum Laude,
Distinction in the Major. |
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Economics of operations management, incentives
in operations, supply chain management and contracting, and service
management. |
Journal Articles
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Coverage, Coarseness and
Classification: Determinants of Social Efficiency in Priority Queues, with Itai Gurvich and Can Ozkan,
forthcoming, Management Science, June 2018. |
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OM Forum—Supply Chain
Contracting: Doughnuts to Bubbles, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 18, 3 (Summer 2016), 309–313. |
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Saving
Seats for Strategic Customers,
with Eren Çil, Operations Research, 61, 6
(November-December 2013), 1321-1332. |
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Are
Reservations Recommended?, with Alexei Alexandrov,
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 14, 2 (Spring
2012), 218-230. |
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Capacity
Allocation over a Long Horizon: The Return on Turn-and-Earn, with
Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, forthcoming, Manufacturing
& Service Operations Management. |
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Asymmetric
Information and Economies-of-Scale in Service Contracting, with Mustafa
Akan and Bariş Ata, Manufacturing &
Service Operations Management, 13, 1 (Winter 2011), 58-72. |
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A Note on Probability Distributions with Increasing
Generalized Failure Rates, Operations
Research, 54, 3 (May-June 2006), 602-604. |
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Managing Service Inventory to Improve Performance, with Sunil Chopra, Sloan Management Review, 41, 1,(Fall 2005) 56-63. |
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Supply Chain Coordination with Revenue-Sharing Contracts:
Strengths and Limitations, with
Gérard P. Cachon, Management Science 51, 1
(January 2005), 30 - 44. |
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Strategically Seeking Service: How Competition Can
Generate Poisson Arrivals, with Jan A. Van Mieghem,
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 6, 1 (Winter 2004),
23-40. |
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Selling
to the Newsvendor: An Analysis of Price-Only Contracts, with Evan L. Porteus, Manufacturing & Service Operations
Management, 3, 4 (Fall 2001), 293-305. |
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Contracting to
Assure Supply: How to Share Demand Forecasts in a Supply Chain, with
Gérard P. Cachon, Management Science, 47, 5
(May 2001), 629-646. |
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Turning the Supply
Chain into a Revenue Chain, with
Gérard P. Cachon, Harvard Business Review,
79, 3 (March 2001), 20-21. |
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Decentralizing
Cross-Functional Decisions: Coordination Through Internal Markets, with Panagiotis Kouvelis, Management Science, 46, 8 (August
2000), 1049-1058. |
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An Equilibrium Analysis
of Linear, Proportional and Uniform Allocation of Scarce Capacity, with
Gérard P. Cachon, IIE Transactions, 31, 9 (September 1999), 835-850. |
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Capacity Choice and
Allocation: Strategic Behavior and Supply Chain Performance, with Gérard
P. Cachon, Management
Science, 45, 8 (August 1999), 1091-1108. |
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Capacity Allocation
Using Past Sales: When to Turn-and-Earn, with Gérard P. Cachon, Management Science, 45, 5 (May 1999),
685-703. |
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Stalking
Information: Bayesian Inventory Management with Unobserved Lost Sales,
with Evan L. Porteus, Management Science, 45, 3 (March 1999), 346-363. |
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Slotting
Allowances and New Product Introductions, with V. Padmanabhan,
Marketing Science, 16, 2 (1997),
112-128. |
Working Papers
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Priority Queues and
Consumer Surplus, August
2018. |
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Paying by the Hour: Are Wages the Cost of Waiting?, with Achal Bassamboo and Simin Li, January
2019. |
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Failure Rate and Generalized Increasing Failure Rate for Discrete Distributions, with Anh Ninh, Max Shen, November 2017. |
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Would the Social Planner Let Bags
Fly Free?, with Gad Allon and Achal Bassamboo, August 2011. |
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Inducing Forecast Revelation through Restricted
Returns, June 2002. |
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Manufacturer-Retailer Contracting under an Unknown
Demand Distribution, with Evan L. Porteus,
December 1995. |
Articles and Chapters in Books
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Operations in the On-demand
Economy: Staffing Services with Self-scheduling Capacity, with Itai Gurvich and Antonio Moreno-Garcia, in Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet
Demand, Ming Hu (ed), Springer Series in Supply
Chain Management, 2019. |
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Capacity Allocation, in Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, James J. Cochran (Editor-in-Chief), John Wiley & Sons, 2010. |
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Supply Chains, in The New
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, L. Blume and |
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Supply Chain
Contracting and Coordination with Stochastic Demand, in Quantitative Models of Supply Chain
Management, |
Conference Proceedings
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Would the Social Planner
Let Bags Fly Free?, with Gad Allon and Achal Bassamboo, MSOM Conference, The Technion, June 2010. |
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Are Reservations
Recommended?, with Alexei Alexandrov, MSOM Conference, |
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Capacity Allocation and Private Information: Strategic Behavior in a Supply Chain, with Gérard P. Cachon, MSOM Conference, The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, June 1996. |
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Managing Independent Agents at Maison
Service Providers, with Itai Gurvich and Antonio Moreno-Garcia, November 2014. |
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Portland Computer Systems, Kellogg School of Management case,
with Sunil Chopra, December 2012. |
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Staffing at LS&S, Kellogg School of Management case, February
2010. |
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The Edison Hospital Maternity Ward, Kellogg School of Management
case, revised February 2008. |
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Revenue Cycle Management at Lake-Cook Physicians, Kellogg School
of Management case, with Sunil Chopra, April 2006. |
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The BAT Case: Putting Tech Support on the Fast Track, Kellogg
School of Management case, revised November 2006. |
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An Introduction to Project Management with PERT/CPM, Kellogg School of Management note, with Sarah Stock Patterson, revised February 2004. |
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Staffing the University Police Department, Kellogg School of Management case, revised November 2006. |
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An Introduction to Queuing Theory: Things to Think About When Waiting
in Line, Kellogg School of Management note, revised January 2004. |
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A Note on Inventory Management, Fuqua School of Business note,
with Gérard P. Cachon, September 1999. |
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The Basics of MRP and Kanban Systems, Fuqua
School of Business note, revised October 1999. |
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An Introduction to Process Analysis, Fuqua School of Business
note, revised May 1999. |
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World Wide Purchasing at General Motors, Stanford Graduate School of Business case and teaching note, 1994. |
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Manzana Insurance – Fruitvale Branch, revised Stanford Graduate
School of Business case and teaching note, 1993. |
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Raychem Corporation, Thermofit Division (A)
- (C), Stanford Graduate School of Business case, with Christopher Avery,
1993. |
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2015 Saul Gass Expository Writing Award of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. |
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2015 Distinguished Fellow Award of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS. |
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2009 MSOM Distinguished Service Award of the Manufacturing and
Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS. |
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2007 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Best Paper for
Strategically Seeking Service: How
Competition Can Generate Poisson Arrivals with Jan A. Van Mieghem, Manufacturing &
Service Operations Management 6, 1 (Winter 2004), 23-40. |
Editorial Work
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Department Editor, Management Science, January 2009 to
June 2014. |
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Associate Editor, Management Science, July 2000 to January 2006. |
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Associate Editor, Operations Research, January 2000 to December 2005. |
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Associate Editor/Senior Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, January 2003 to December 2008. |
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Member, Editorial Board of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, August 2000 to December 2002. |
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Member, Editorial Board of IIE Transactions, focus issues on Scheduling and Logistics, September 2001 to 2005. |
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Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, July 2007 to present. |
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Member, Editorial Board of Kellogg Insight, June 2007 to October 2012. |
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Referee for Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Marketing Science, The Rand Journal of Economics, European Journal of Operational Research, American Economics Review, and IIE Transactions. |
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Recipient, Meritorious Service Award, Operations Research, 1998, 2002 & 2005. |
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Recipient, Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2004, 2007, & 2008. |
Service at Northwestern
University
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Chair, Operations Division of the Department of Managerial Economics, Decision Sciences and Operations, June 2016 – present. |
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Chair, Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, August 2012 – June 2016. |
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Academic Director, Kellogg Certificate Program for Undergraduates, July 2011 – present. |
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Academic Director, Managerial Analytics Certificate Program for Undergraduates, July 2009 – present. |
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Member, Kellogg School Personnel Committee, September 2010 – June 2012. |
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Member, search committee for McCormick MMM Co-Director, 2009 – 2010 academic year. |
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Director, Center for Operations and Supply Chain Management Kellogg School of Management, 2004 - 2016. |
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Chair, Taskforce on Design at Kellogg, Kellogg School of Management, 2009. |
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Member, Committee to Review the Transportation Major, Kellogg School of Management, 2004. |
Professional Activities and
Service
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Chair, MSOM Service SIG Best Paper Prize Committee, 2016 – 2017. |
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Member, MSOM Young Scholar Prize Committee, 2017. |
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Member, INFORMS Subdivisions Council, January 2011 – December 2012. |
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Co-Chair, INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference, June 2009, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. |
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President, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS, June 2007 to June 2008. |
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Executive Vice President/President Elect, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS, June 2006 to June 2007. |
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Vice President – Meetings and Communications, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS, June 2005 to June 2006. |
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Co-Chair, annual meeting of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS, June 2005, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. |
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Co-Chair, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2001. |
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Judge, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 1998, 2002, & 2006. |
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Judge, Junior Faculty at INFORMS Group Paper Competition, 2003 & 2005. |
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Co-Chair, Supply Chain Management cluster, INFORMS Conference, 2004. |
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Member, INFORMS Expository Writing Award Committee, 2004 – 2006 (chair in 2006). |
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Member, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Review Committee, 2005. |
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Chair, INFORMS Ad Hoc Committee on New Publication Products, Fall 2006. |
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Simin Li, chair, OM, Kellogg School of Management, expected 2020. |
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Nil Karacaoglu, co-chair, OM, Kellogg School of Management, expected 2019. |
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Can Ozkan, committee member, OM, Kellogg School of Management, 2017. |
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Eren Çil, co-chair, OM, Kellogg School of Management, 2010. |
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Mustafa Akan, committee member, MECS, Kellogg School of Management, 2008. |
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Michaela Isabel Hoehn, committee member, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, 2008. |
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Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, committee member, MECS, Kellogg School of Management, 2007. |
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Alexei Alexandrov, committee member, MECS, Kellogg School of Management, 2007 |
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Gigi Y. Yuen, committee member, IEMS, McCormick School of Engineering, 2006. |
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Xiaowei Xu, committee member, IEMS, McCormick School of Engineering, 2005. |
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Xiaodong Xu, committee member, IEMS, McCormick School of Engineering, 2004. |
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Qiang Gong, committee member, MECS, Kellogg School of Management, 2004. |
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Fuqiang Zhang, committee member, OPIM, The Wharton School, 2004. |
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Eylem Tekin, committee member, IEMS, McCormick School of Engineering, 2002. |
Updated: February 25, 2019.