RESEARCH:
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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Economic/game-theoretic
applications and de-centralized decision making in various areas of
operations management such as: supply chain management, revenue management,
capacity investment, procurement etc. |
PUBLICATIONS:
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1. Flexible
service capacity: optimal investment and the impact of demand correlation. (DOWNLOAD ) With Gregory Dobson,
Robert
Shumsky. |
2002, Operations Research, Vol. 50, No.
2, 375-388. |
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2. Should you take the
virtual fulfillment path? (DOWNLOAD) (Knowledge@Wharton
Coverage) With Taylor
Randall, Nils
Rudi. |
2002, Supply Chain Management Review, November-December,
54-58. |
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3. Introduction to the
Theory and Practice of Yield Management (LINK) With
Robert
Shumsky. |
2002, INFORMS Transactions on Education,
Vol. 3, No. 1, 34-44. |
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4. Centralized and
competitive inventory models with demand substitution (DOWNLOAD) With Nils Rudi. |
2003, Operations Research, Vol. 51,
No.2, 329-335. |
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5. Game theory in
supply chain analysis (DOWNLOAD) With Gerard Cachon. |
2004, in "Handbook of
Quantitative Supply Chain Analysis: Modeling in the E-Business Era",
D. Simchi-Levi, S. D. Wu and M. Shen, Eds, Kluwer. |
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6. Supply Chain
Structures on the Internet and the role of marketing-operations interaction. (DOWNLOAD) With Nils Rudi. Numerical
Experiments. |
2004, in "Handbook of
Quantitative Supply Chain Analysis: Modeling in the E-Business Era",
D. Simchi-Levi, S. D. Wu and M. Shen, Eds, Kluwer. |
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7. Positive vs.
negative externalities in inventory management: implications for supply chain
design (Rev November 2004 DOWNLOAD There
is also on-line supplement DOWNLOAD). With
Fuqiang Zhang. |
2005, Manufacturing &Service Operations Management,
Vol. 7, No. 1, 58-73. |
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8. Revenue management
games: horizontal and vertical competition (Rev November 2004 DOWNLOAD. There is also on-line supplement DOWNLOAD). With
Robert
Shumsky. |
2005, Management Science, Vol. 51,
No. 5, 813–831. |
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9. Dynamic pricing of
inventory/capacity with infrequent price changes (December 2004 DOWNLOAD) |
2006,
European
Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 174, No. 1 , 553-580 |
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10. An empirical
examination of the decision to invest in fulfillment capabilities: a study of
Internet retailers (Oct 2005 DOWNLOAD). With Taylor Randall and Nils Rudi. |
2006, Management
Science, Vol. 52, No.4, 567-580. |
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11. Supply Chain choice
on the Internet (Rev Dec 2005 DOWNLOAD). With Nils Rudi. |
2006, Management
Science, Vol. 52, No.6, 844-864. |
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12. Dynamic Revenue
Management through Cross-selling in E-commerce Retailing (July 2005 DOWNLOAD, a separate Technical
Appendix) With Sergei
Savin and Wenqiang Xiao. |
2006, Operations Research, Vol. 54, No.
5, 893-913. |
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13. Inventory
competition and incentives to backorder (Rev Aug 2005 DOWNLOAD) With Nils Rudi and Yunzeng Wang. |
2006, IIE Transactions,
Vol. 38, No. 11, 883-902 |
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14. Game theory in supply
chain analysis (DOWNLOAD) With Gerard Cachon. Reprinted
with modifications. |
2006, INFORMS TutORials in Operations
Research", Paul Gray, Series Editor. 200-233. |
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15. Product line design
and production technology (April
2006 DOWNLOAD, a separate Technical Appendix).
With Terry
Taylor. |
2007, Marketing
Science, Vol. 26, No. 1, 101-117. |
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16. Strategic
technology choice and capacity investment under demand uncertainty (April 2006 DOWNLOAD, a separate Technical
Appendix) With Manu Goyal. |
2007, Management Science, Vol. 53, No. 2, 192–207. |
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17. What can be learned
from classical inventory models: a cross-industry empirical investigation. (February 2007 DOWNLOAD) With Sergey Rumyantsev. |
2007, Manufacturing &Service Operations Management, Vol. 9, No. 4, 409-429. |
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18. Performance
Contracting in After-Sales Service Supply Chains (April 2007 DOWNLOAD, APPENDIX)
With Sang-Hyun Kim and
Morris Cohen. |
2007, Management Science, Vol. 53,
No. 12, 1843-1858 |
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19.
Long-term contracts under the threat of supplier default (August 2007 DOWNLOAD. With Robert Swinney). |
2009, Manufacturing &Service Operations Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, 109-127. |
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20. Consumer-Driven Demand and Operations
Management Models. (This is a book co-edited with Chris Tang). |
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21.
Selling to Strategic Customers: Opaque Selling Strategies (With Senthil
Veeraraghavan; Kinshuk
Jerath DOWNLOAD) |
2009,
in Operations Management Models
with Consumer-Driven Demand. |
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22.
Supply chain networks (January
2008 DOWNLOAD). |
2009.
In Network-Based Strategies and Competencies, Paul Kleindorfer and
Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Editors. |
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23. Revenue Management
with Strategic Customers: Last Minute Selling and Opaque Selling (Senthil
Veeraraghavan; Kinshuk
Jerath August 2009 DOWNLOAD) |
Forthcoming in Management Science |
WORKING PAPERS:
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Title |
Status |
Co-authors |
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24. Procurement in
Supply Chains when the end-product exhibits the “Weakest Link” property (Feb 2004 DOWNLOAD UNABRIDGED ABRIDGED) |
Under
Revision |
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25.
An incentive effect of multiple sourcing (April 2004 DOWNLOAD) |
Under
Revision |
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26. Volume Flexibility
with Multiple Products and the trade-off with Product Flexibility (Feb 2009 DOWNLOAD)
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Under Revision |
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27. The Timing of Capacity Investment by Start-ups and
Established Firms in New Markets
(September 2009 DOWNLOAD) |
Under
Submission |
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28. Deployment of
manufacturing flexibility: an empirical analysis of the North American automotive
industry (March 2006 DOWNLOAD) |
Under Revision |
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29. Should inventory
policy be lean or responsive: evidence for |
Under Revision |
Sergey Rumyantsev |
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30. Retail Store
Execution: an Empirical Study (December
2006 DOWNLOAD) |
Under Revision |
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31. Informativeness,
Incentive Compensation and the Choice of Inventory Buffer (November 2009 DOWNLOAD) |
Under Submission |
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32. Inventory and its
relationship with profitability: evidence for an international sample of
countries (January 2007 DOWNLOAD) |
Under Revision |
Sergey Rumyantsev |
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33. Reliability or
Inventory? Analysis of Product Support Contracts in the Defence Industry
(September 2009 DOWNLOAD) |
Under Submission |
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34. Robust newsvendor
competition under asymmetric information (June 2009 DOWNLOAD) |
Under Submission |
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35. Can We All
Get Along? Incentive Contracts to Bridge the Marketing and Operations Divide (November 2007 DOWNLOAD, SUPPLEMENT) |
Under Revision |
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36. Labor Planning, Execution, and Financial Performance: the Exploratory Investigation in the Retail Industry (February 2009, DOWNLOAD) |
Under Revision |
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37. Contracting
for Infrequent Restoration and Recovery of Mission-Critical Systems (June 2009, DOWNLOAD) |
Under Revision |
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38. Impact of
Performance-Based Contracting on Product Reliability: An Empirical Analysis (July 2009, DOWNLOAD) |
Under Submission |
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39. Is Tom Cruise
Threatened? Using Netflix Prize Data to Examine the Long Tail of Electronic
Commerce (July
2009, DOWNLOAD) |
Under Submission |
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40. Supply Chain
Collaboration Under Information Asymmetry (August 2009, DOWNLOAD) |
Under Submission |
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION:
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A hard take on a soft asset? A test of an operational approach to human resource management |
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Modularity, contracts and vendor choice in a supply chain |
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The impact of new
product introduction upon assembly productivity in the North American
automotive industry |
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Operational effects of airline alliances |
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS:
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Comment on "How business
schools lost their way" by Warren G. Bennis and James O'Tool. |
Harvard Business Review
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Demand
substitution in retail: centralization and competition. With Nils Rudi. |
Proceedings of the 4th
MSOM conference, 2000. |
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Flexible service
capacity: optimal investment and the impact of demand correlation. With Gregory Dobson and Robert Shumsky. |
Proceedings of the 4th
MSOM conference, 2000. |