PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

AWARDS:

Meritorious Associate Editor Service Award from Management Science, 2009.
Meritorious Service Award from Operations Research, 2008.
Highest course ratings among all core classes at INSEAD in Fall 2008 and nominated for the Best Teaching Award for Core course in the Fontainebleau campus.
Meritorious Service Award from Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2008.
MBA Core teaching award by student vote "Tough, but will thank you in 5 years", Spring 2008.
Meritorious Service Award from Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2007.
Meritorious Service Award from Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2006.
Finalist of the Junior Faculty Interest Group Best Paper competition, 2006.
Supervised (with Morris Cohen) research of Sang-Hyun Kim, the recipient of 2006 SOLE (The International Society of Logistics) Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2006 Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications, finalist of 2006 M&SOM student paper competition and the winner of Dantzig Dissertation Award (2008).
Miller-Sherrerd Teaching Award 2005-2006 (top students' evaluations among MBA core courses).
Meritorious Service Award from Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2005.
Miller-Sherrerd Teaching Award 2004-2005 (top students' evaluations among MBA core courses).
Production and Operations Management Society Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishment Award, 2005.
Meritorious Service Award from Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2004.
Finalist of the Junior Faculty Interest Group Best Paper competition, 2003.
Meritorious Service Award from Operations Research, 2002.
Miller-Sherrerd Teaching Award 2002-2003 (top students' evaluations among MBA core courses).
Meritorious Service Award from Operations Research, 2001.
2nd place in M&SOM student paper competition, 2001.

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

    Management Science (Associate Editor starting 2007).

    Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (Associate Editor starting 2005, Member of the Editorial Board: 2003-2004).

    Operations Research (Associate Editor starting 2007).

    Production and Operations Management (Senior Editor starting 2006, Member of the Editorial Board: 2003-2005).

    Special Issue of Production and Operations Management on Operations Management in Business to Business Markets: Practice and Research (Associate Editor, 2007-2008).

    Referee for: Management Science, Operations Research, Marketing Science, Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, INFORMS Transactions of Education, International Journal of Production Planning and Control, MIT Sloan Management Review, IMA Journal of Management Mathematics, International Economic Review.

STUDENT ADVISING:

    PhD Dissertation advising: Manu Goyal (2005), Sergey Rumyantsev (2006), Robert Swinney (2009), Sang-Hyun Kim (2009)

    PhD Dissertation committees: Justin Ren (2003), Yi Xu (2003), Fuqiang Zhang (2004), Jayanth Krishnan (2006), Kinshuk Jerath (2008), Nitin Bakshi (2008). Ramnath Vaydayanathan (2009), Pnina Feldman (pending).

SERVICE:

Judge: 2009 JFIG paper competition.

Co-Chair (with Terry Taylor): M&SOM track at 2006 INFORMS conference (Pittsburgh).

Chair: 2005 M&SOM Student Paper Competition.

Judge: 2003, 2008, 2009 M&SOM Student Paper Competition.

    Wharton Service:

Dean's Advisory Committee 2007-2008.

OPIM Recruiting Committee 2007-2008.

OPIM PhD program coordinator: 2007-2008.

OPIM632 course coordinator 2006-2007-2008.

OPIM PhD admissions committee 2005-2006-2007.

OPIM Recruiting Committee 2004-2005,

OPIM Seminar Committee (chair) 2003-2004,

FUNDED RESEARCH:

ˆ15,000 grant from the Wharton-INSEAD alliance, 2009.
$14,000 grant from the Mack Center for Technological Innovation to study effects of airline codesharing agreements upon operational performance, 2008.
ˆ50,000 grant from International Commerce Institute (ECR)  to study retail store execution strategies 2008 (with Marshall Fisher and Nicole DeHoratius).
$100,000 grant from International Commerce Institute (ECR)  to study retail store execution strategies 2007 (with Marshall Fisher and Nicole DeHoratius).
$12,000 grant from the Mack Center for Technological Innovation to study revenue management through opaque selling, 2007.
$7,000 grant from the Mack Center for Technological Innovation to study the long tail of electronic commerce, 2007.
$7,000 grant from the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management to study performance-based logistics, 2006.
$12,000 grant from the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management to study retail store execution strategies, 2006.
$100,000 grant from Procter&Gamble and Gillette to study retail store execution strategies 2006 (with Marshall Fisher).
$12,000 grant from the Mack Center for Technological Innovation to study new product launches in the automotive industry, 2006.
$12,500 grant from the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management to study the impact of new product launches on the automotive assembly productivity, 2005
$13,000 grant from the Mack Center for Technological Innovation for study of manufacturing flexibility adoption in the automotive industry, 2005.
$2,000 grant from the Mack Center for Technological Innovation for study of competition and capacity investment for startup firms, 2005.
$100,000 grant from Procter&Gamble and Gillette to study retail store execution strategies 2005 (with Marshall Fisher).
$15,000 grant from the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management to investigate adoption of manufacturing flexibility in the automotive industry, 2004.
$5,000 grant from the Mack Center for Technological Innovation to study manufacturing flexibility, 2004.
$4,000 grant from Columbia Center for Excellence in E-Business to investigate dynamic product bundling in e-commerce retailing, 2003 (with Sergei Savin, Wen-Qiang Xiao).
$10,000 grant from the Wharton e-Business Initiative for investigation of Supply Chain choice by Internet retailers, 2002.

PRESENTATIONS:

Invited seminars. Dartmouth college 11/00, Emory University 11/00, INSEAD 12/00, Georgia Tech 12/00, Cornell University 12/00, Northwestern University 01/01, University of Chicago 01/01, New - York University 01/01, Columbia University 01/01, Duke University 02/01, Carnegie Mellon University 02/01, Washington University in St. Louis 02/01, University of Pennsylvania 03/01, New-York University 02/04, Stanford University 02/04, MIT 03/04, University of North Carolina 09/04, University of Southern California 11/04, University of California at Irvine 11/04, University of Michigan 02/05, Purdue University 02/05, Cornell University 10/05, UT Dallas 11/05, University of Washington 12/05, Stanford University 01/06, Berkeley University 02/06, Columbia University 09/06, University of Minnesota 11/06, UCLA 11/06, UBC 10/07, HBS 11/07, NYU 11/07, INSEAD 11/07, Zaragoza 10/08, ESMT 01/09, Eindhoven 02/09, LBS 04/09, Cambridge 04/09, Leuven 11/09.
Impact of Performance-Based Contracting on Product Reliability: An Empirical Analysis Wharton Empirical Conference, 2009.
Retail store execution project ECR Europe forum, 2009, Barcelona.
Retail store execution project Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing (COER) Conference, May 2007
A study of retail store execution POMS conference, Dallas, TX, May 2007
Tutorial: game theory in supply chain analysis INFORMS conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006.
Should inventory policy be lean or responsive: evidence for US public companies M&SOM conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2006.
Customer satisfaction, Sales, and Retail Store Execution Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing (COER) Conference, June 2006.
Academic Research on Performance Based Incentive Contracting for Service Support Wharton Service Supply Chain Thought Leaders Forum, February 2006
Product Line Design and Production Technology INFORMS conference, San Francisco, CA, November 2005.
From theory to empirical evidence and back: integrating data-driven research into your portfolio
 Purdue CIBER Consortium meeting on International Operations Management, September 2005.
Drivers of the manufacturing flexibility adoption: empirical analysis of the automotive industry International Motor Vehicles Program meeting, The Wharton School, June 2005.
Capacity investment and the interplay between volume-flexibility and product-flexibility POMS conference, Chicago, IL 2005
Dynamic Revenue Management through Cross-selling in E-commerce Retailing INFORMS conference, Denver, CO, 2004.
The Impact of Production Technology on Price Discrimination Under Information Asymmetry INFORMS conference, Denver, CO, 2004.
An incentive effect of multiple sourcing (session chair) INFORMS conference, Denver, CO, 2004.
Dynamic Revenue Management through Cross-selling in E-commerce Retailing M&SOM conference, Eindhoven, 2004, July 1-2, 2004.
The impact of supply-side externalities among downstream firms on supply chain efficiency INFORMS conference, Atlanta, GA, 2003.
Procurement in Supply Chains when the end-product exhibits the “Weakest Link” property (session chair) INFORMS conference, Atlanta, GA, 2003.
Externalities through stocking decisions and supply chain efficiency M&SOM conference, Los Angeles, CA. 15-17 June, 2003.
Competition on inventory availability and supply chain efficiency: complements, substitutes, and product life-cycle INFORMS conference, San Jose, CA. November 17-20, 2002.
Dynamic pricing of inventory/capacity when price changes are costly INFORMS conference, San Jose, CA. November 17-20, 2002.
Choice of inventory structure by Internet retailers: theoretical and empirical examination of the role of inventory ownership First Kellogg Operations Management Workshop, Northwestern University, August 17-18.
Intertemporal pricing in retail and services MSOM conference, Ithaca, NY. 15-17 June, 2002.
Supply Chain choice for Internet retailers ICG/Wharton Forum on Electronic Business, Philadelphia, PA, Dec 6, 2001.
Timing of Revenue Management decisions. INFORMS conference, Miami, FL. November 3-8, 2001.
Dynamic inventory competition and customer retention INFORMS conference, Miami, FL. November 3-8, 2001.
Economics of Revenue Management. 1st Revenue Management Conference, Columbia University, 2001.
Supply Chain structures on the Internet: marketing-operations coordination. INFORMS conference, San Antonio, TX. 5-8 November, 2000. Supply Chain session (sponsored). Session SD03. 
Demand substitution in retail: centralization and competition. MSOM conference, Ann Arbor, MI. 25-26 May, 2000.
The component commonality problems with non-identical lead times. INFORMS conference, Salt Lake City,  UT. 7-10 May, 2000. Managing Product Variety Cluster (invited). Session TC29.
Revenue management game. INFORMS conference, Salt Lake City,  UT. 7-10 May, 2000. Pricing and Revenue Management Cluster (invited). Session MB27.
Capacity investment decisions for service-flexible resources under uncertainty. INFORMS conference, Philadelphia, PA. 7-10 November, 1999. Revenue Management Section (sponsored). Session MD16.

 

 

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