Last updated 9 – Nov - 2009

Curriculum Vitae

Gérard Philippe Cachon

543 Jon M. Huntsman Hall · The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia · PA · 19104-6340

Tel: (215) 573-8743 · cachon@wharton.upenn.edu· http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~cachon

 

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pennsylvania:

Ph. D., Operations Management, The Wharton School, 1995. Thesis: On the Operational Implications of Continuous Product Replenishment to the Grocery Industry. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Marshall Fisher.

B.A.S., Computer Science Engineering, The Moore School of Engineering, 1989

B.S., Economics, The Wharton School, 1989.

 

EXPERIENCE

The Fred R. Sullivan Professor of Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, July 2005 to present.

Visiting Professor, The University of Auckland, August 2007 – July 2008.
Associate Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, July 2001 to June 2005.

Kraft General Foods Term Associate Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, July 2000 to June 2001.

Associate Professor, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1998 to 2000.

Assistant Professor, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1994 to 1998.

 

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

  1. Cachon, G., G. Kok. 2007. Competing manufacturers in a retail supply chain: on contractual form and coordination. Forthcoming Management Science.
  2. Cachon, G., M. Olivares. 2006. Drivers of finished goods inventory in the U.S. automobile industry. Forthcoming Management Science.
  3. Olivares, M., G. Cachon, 2009. Competing Retailers and Inventory: An Empirical Investigation of General Motors' Dealerships in Isolated U.S. Markets. Management Science. 55(9). 1586-1604.
  4. Cachon, G., R. Swinney. 2009. Purchasing, Pricing and Quick Response in the Presence of Strategic Consumers.  Management Science. 55(3). 497-511.
  5. Cachon, G., C. Terwiesch, Y. Xu. 2008. On the effects of consumer search and firm entry in a multiproduct competitive market. Marketing Science. 27(3). 461-473.
  6. Cachon, G., T. Randall, G. Schmidt. 2007. In search of the bullwhip effect. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 9(4). 457-479.
  7. Cachon, G., A. G. Kok. 2007. How to (and how not to) estimate the salvage value in the newsvendor model. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 9(3). 276-290.
  8. Cachon, G., A. G. Kok. 2007. Category management and coordination in retail assortment planning in the presence of basket shopping consumers. Management Science. 53(6). 934-951.
  9. Cachon, G., F. Zhang. 2007. Obtaining fast service in a queueing system via performance-based allocation of demand. Management Science. 53(3). 408-420.
  10. Cachon, G., F. Zhang. 2006. Procuring fast delivery: sole sourcing with information asymmetry. Management Science. 52(6). 881-896.
  11. Cachon, G., C. Terwiesch, Y. Xu. 2005. Retail assortment planning in the presence of consumer search. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 7(4). 330-346.
  12. Cachon, G., M. Lariviere. 2005. Supply chain coordination with revenue sharing: strengths and limitations. Management Science. 51(1). 30-44
  13. Cachon, G. 2004. The allocation of inventory risk in a supply chain: push, pull and advance-purchase discount contracts. Management Science. 50(2). 222-238.
  14. Cachon, G., P. Harker. 2002. Competition and outsourcing with scale economies. Management Science. 48(10). 1314-1333.
  15. Cachon, G. 2001. Managing a retailer's shelf space, inventory and transportation. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 3(3). 211-229.
  16. Cachon, G. 2001. Stock wars: inventory competition in a two echelon supply chain. Operations Research. 49(5). 658-674.
  17. Cachon, G. 2001. Exact evaluation of batch-ordering policies in two-echelon supply chains with periodic review. Operations Research. 49(1). 79-98.
  18. Cachon, G., M. Lariviere. 2001. Contracting to assure supply: how to share demand forecasts in a supply chain. Management Science. 47(5). 629-46.
  19. Cachon, G., M. Fisher. 2000. Supply chain inventory management and the value of shared information. Management Science 46(8). 1032-1048.
  20. Schweitzer, M., G. Cachon. 2000. Decision bias in the newsvendor problem with a known demand distribution: experimental evidence. Management Science 46(3). 404-420.
  21. Cachon, G., M. Lariviere. 1999. An equilibrium analysis of linear and proportional allocation of scarce capacity. IIE Transactions 31(9). 835-850.
  22. Cachon, G., M. Lariviere. 1999. Capacity choice and allocation: strategic behavior and supply chain performance. Management Science 45(8). 1091-1108.
  23. Cachon, G., P. Zipkin. 1999. Competitive and cooperative inventory policies in a 2 stage supply chain. Management Science 45(7). 936-953.
  24. Cachon, G. 1999. Managing supply chain demand variability with scheduled ordering policies. Management Science 45(6). 843-856.
  25. Cachon, G., M. Lariviere. 1999. Capacity allocation with past sales: when to turn-and-earn. Management Science 45. 685-703.
  26. Cachon, G., M. Fisher. 1997. Campbell Soup's Continuous Product Replenishment Program: evaluation and enhanced decision rules. Production and Operations Management. 6 266-275.
  27. Cachon, G., C. Camerer. 1996. Loss avoidance and forward induction in coordination games. Quarterly Journal of Economics 112. 165-194.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Cachon, G., R. Swinney. 2008. The Impact of Strategic Consumer Behavior on the Value of Operational Flexibility. Operations Management Models with Consumer-Driven Demand, edited by Serguei Netessine and Christopher Tang. Forthcoming.
  2. Cachon, G., S. Netessine. 2004. Game theoretic applications in supply chain analysis. Supply Chain Analysis in the eBusiness Era, edited by David Simchi-Levi and S. David Wu and Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen and published by Kluwer.
  3. Cachon, G. 2003. Supply chain coordination with contracts. Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science: Supply Chain Management, edited by Steve Graves and Ton de Kok. North-Holland.
  4. Cachon, G. 1998. Competitive supply chain inventory management. in Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management. eds. S. Tayur, R. Ganeshan and M. Magazine. Boston, Kluwer.

 

BOOKS

  1.  Cachon, G., C. Terwiesch.  Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management. McGraw-Hill. 633 pages. 1st edition, January 2005; 2nd edition, June 2008.

 

OTHER ARTICLES

 

  1. Cachon, G., M. Lariviere. 2001. Turning the supply chain into a revenue chain. Harvard Business Review. March.
  2. Cachon, G. 2006. A letter from the Editor. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 8. 1-4.
  3. Cachon, G. 2007. 2007 M&SOM Best Paper Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 9. 351-352.
  4. Cachon, G. 2008. 2008 M&SOM Best Paper Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. 10. 337-338.

 

UNPUBLISHED WORKING PAPERS

  1. Cachon, G., R. Swinney. 2009. The Value of Fast Fashion: Rapid Production, Enhanced Design, and Strategic Consumer Behavior. Submitted to Management Science.
  2. Cachon, G., P. Feldman. 2008. Pricing Services Subject to Congestion: Charge Per-Use Fees or Sell Subscriptions? Submitted to Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
  3. Swinney, R., Cachon, G., S. Netessine. 2009. The Timing of Capacity Investment by Start-ups and Established Firms in New Markets. Submitted to Management Science.
  4. Cachon, G. 1999. Competitive and cooperative inventory management in a two-echelon supply chain with lost sales.

 

TEACHING MATERIALS

Where in the World is Timbuk2: Outsouring, Offshoring and Mass Customization, Mar 2008. Wharton case.

Where in the World is Timbuk2: Outsouring, Offshoring and Mass Customization – Teaching note, Mar 2008.

Le Club Francais – Teaching note, May 2008.

 

INVITED TALKS

Santa Clara University (2/94); University of Rochester (2/94); Duke University (2/94); University of Texas (2/94); University of Chicago (3/94); The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (11/96);Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University (11/96); Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University (4/97); The Simon School, University of Rochester (11/97); The University of Michigan (11/97); Supply Chain Thought Leaders Roundtable sponsored by the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum (1/98); Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Palo Alto (1/98); University of Chicago (5/98); The Symposium of Mathematical Models of Inventories, University of Aarhus, Denmark (8/98); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (10/98); Department of Operations Research, University of North Carolina (3/99); Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan (4/99); The Anderson School, University of California at Los Angeles, (5/99); Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (5/99); Second Supply Chain Thought Leaders Roundtable, Eindhoven University (6/99); Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (12/99); Krannert School of Management, Purdue University (10/00); Conference on Incentives in Operations Management, Stanford University (9/00); Harvard Business School, Harvard University (10/00); Columbia Business School, Columbia University (11/00); School of Business Administration, The University of Washington (12/00); School of Business Administration, University of Michigan (2/02); University of Texas (4/02);  Keynote speaker, Kellogg Summer Camp (8/02); Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University (12/02); The Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (3/03); University of California, Irvine (3/03); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, keynote speaker for The Second MIT Symposium in Operations Research: Procurement and Pricing Strategies to Improve Supply Chain Performance (5/03); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2/04); The Olin School of Business, Washington University (05/04); School of Business Administration, The University of Washington (03/04); Supply Chain Roundtable, Dartmouth University (07/04); Columbia Business School, Columbia University (9/04); Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD (10/04); The Olin School of Business, Washington University (11/04); Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota (11/04); Operations and Information Management Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (11/04); Harvard Business School, Harvard University (12/04); Fuqua School of Business, Duke University (12/04); Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (3/05); MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (5/05), MIT; Stanford Business School, Stanford University (5/05);  MSE, Stanford School of Engineering, Stanford University (5/05); Drexel University (1/06); University of Texas at Dallas (3/06); University of North Carolina (4/06); The Future of Distribution Channels Research, The Wharton School (5/06); University of British Columbia (9/06); Penn State University (9/06); The Workshop on Empirical Research in Operations Management, The Wharton School (9/06); Stern School of Business, New York University (10/06); Georgetown University (12/06); McGill University (4/07); Workshop on Supply Chain Competition, University of Auckland (12/07); Plenary Speaker, 42 Annual ORSNZ Conference, University of Auckland (12/07); Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (5/08); Columbia University (10/08); Northwestern University (11/08); University of California at Berkeley (12/08); University of California at Los Angeles (5/09); University of California at San Diego (5/09);  University of Maryland (11/09); Stanford University (12/09); Harvard University (2/10); Plenary speaker, Behavioral and Quantitative Game Theory: Conference on Future Directions (5/10).

 

COURSES

Wharton:

OPIM 632,  Operations Management Core (Spring 2001-2007; 2009); OPIM 101, Undergraduate Core (Spring 2009); OPIM 655,  Integrating Marketing and Operations Management (Spring 2001-2007); OPIM 989: Supply chain contracting and coordination (Fall 2005);  OPIM 941, Operations Management (Fall 2002); OPIM 940, Introduction to Operations Management (Fall 2000); Tiger FAP faculty coordinator (Spring 2001; An analysis for Reliant Energy Inc. to analyze real time metering for utility customers); FAP faculty coordinator (Spring 2005; An analysis for Boeing Corp. to analyze assembly line production processes to improve quality and production efficiency).

 

Duke:

BA 370, MBA Core in Operations Management (Spring 1995 -1997); BA 476, Distribution and Supply Chain Management (Spring 1995, Fall 1995 - 1999)
 

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Executive Development Program, 1/05, 5/05, 9/05, 2/06, 5/06, 9/06, 2/07, 5/07, 9/08, 2/09, 5/09: 2 sessions on supply chain management;

Dubai World Faculty Advisor, 08: Advisor to project team on dry port development in UAE;

EMTM 585, Spring 08-09, 09-10, Supply Chain Management.

Efficient Consumer Response Executive Development, Spring 2005;

IDC, Fall 2003-2004: One day on the operations/marketing interface (with Steve Hoch); 

Aventis Behring, Fall 2001: 2 sessions on supply chain management;

Electronic Commerce Seminar, Fall 2000: 1 session on e-commerce logistics

OSRAM/Sylvania Institute for Manufacturing Management (Duke)

 

CONSULTING

Gulfstream Inc (06), revenue sharing contracts; GPlay Inc (2004), inventory control; Medtronic Inc (2003), inventory control and supply chain design; 4R Systems (2002, 2004-2005), Inventory planning and control; SocraticLaw.com (2002), Revenue sharing contracts; Americold Corporation (1996), Inventory planning and control; Ahold Corporation (1997- 2000), Product variety and inventory planning; O'Neill Inc (1999 to 2007), Production scheduling and forecasting.
 

AWARDS

MSOM Society Service Award 2008; Miller-Sherrerd teaching award 2004; 2004 MSOM Meritorious Service Award; “Tough, But I’ll Thank You in 5 Years” Award, given by the Wharton Graduate Students Association, 2002; Fuqua School of Business' Daimler-Chrysler Teaching Award for Innovation and Excellence in an Elective Course, 1999.
 

STUDENT SUPERVISION

Dissertation advisor: Pnina Feldman; Robert Swinney (2008: first position at Stanford University, now at Stanford University); Marcelo Olivares (2007: first position at Columbia University, now at Columbia University), Fuqiang Zhang (2004: first position at University of California at Irvine, now at Washington University), Gurhan Kok (2003: first position at Duke University, now at Duke University).
Dissertation committees: Manu Goyal (2005), Guodong Gao (2005), Navid Sabbaghi (MIT), Ye Hu (2004), Justin Ren (2003), Noel Watson (2002), Yi Xu (2003), Mei Xue (2002)

Wharton Scholars advisor: Hal Gotz (2004)

 

MEDIA REFERENCES

Knowledge@Wharton: Here today, discounted tomorrow: Strategic shoppers know when to buy and at what price. May 30, 2007. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1750

Knowledge@Wharton: Can’t find that dress on the rack? Retailers are pushing more shoppers on the web. Nov 1, 2006. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1595

Knowledge@Wharton: You can’t manage what you can’t measure: maximizing supply chain value. Sep 06, 2006. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1546

Knowledge@Wharton: Christmas creep: the shopping season is longer but is it better? Mar 1, 2006. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1330

Knowledge@Wharton: Who gains , who loses, from RFID’s growing presence in the marketplace. Mar 23, 2005. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1161

Knowledge@Wharton: Dell: It’s time to diversify dude. Aug 28, 2002. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=613

Knowledge@Wharton: Now showing at Blockbuster: How revenue-sharing contracts improve supply chain performance. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=258

 

SERVICE

OPIM Department Chair - July 2009 to present; Deputy Dean’s Executive Committee - Sep 2009 to present; OPIM Ph.D. Program Coordinator, 2001 to June 2007, July 2008 - June 2009; Wharton Advisory Committee on Faculty Personnel, 2006-07; Wharton MBA Executive Committee, 2005-06; Wharton PhD Executive Committee, 2001 to June 2007, June 2008 to present; OPIM 632 Core course coordinator, 2001-2006, 2009;  Operations and Information Management Department 5 Year Review committee (2005); Marketing Department 5 Year Review committee (2004);  Chair of tenure review committee, Erica Plambeck; Tenure review committee, Noah Gans, Balaji Padmanabhan and Christian Terwiesch;  Renewal review committee, Christian Terwiesch;  Chair of the faculty mentoring committee for K. Anand, 2001-2002;  Operations Management seminar coordinator, 2001; Recruiting committee, Spring 2001.

Fuqua School of Business: Curriculum Committee, 1998 to 2000;  Technology Committee, 1996 to 2000; Ethics Committee, 1994-1995
 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editor, Management Science (1/09-); Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (1/06-12/08); Chair, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Best Paper Award (5/07, 5/08); President, Manufacturing and Service Operations Society of INFORMS, 06-07; Lancaster Prize Nomination Committee 2006,2007; NSF DRMS Proposal Review Panel (11/06); Department Editor, Management Science, 9/05-4/06; President-Elect, Manufacturing and Service Operations Society, 05-06; Senior Editor, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (1/00 – 12/05); Associate Editor, Management Science (Operations and supply chain management, 1/99 – 9/05; Stochastic models and simulation, 1/05- 9/05); Associate Editor, Operations Research (1/03 – 12/05); Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics (12/03-12/05); Editorial Board, Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management; Chair of the 2003 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society’s Student Paper Competition; Referee for Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operations Research.