2006-07 Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

Spring 2007	Speaker	Title	Time/Place
April 11	Ozalp Ozer Stanford University-MS&E Department	Competing on Time: An Integrated Framework to Optimize Dynamic Time-to-Market and Production Decisions Abstract	4:00-5:00 pm/S151
May 3 Thursday	Avi Seidmann University of Rochester	ASP On-Demand versus MOTS In-House Software Solutions	4:00-5:00 pm/S172
May 9 Wednesday	Edward Kaplan Yale University	Modeling a Presidential Prediction Market	4:00-5:00 pm/L109
May 16 Wednesday	Stefanos Zenios Stanford Graduate School of Business	The Kidney Allocation Conundrum: Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies Draft	4:00-5:00 pm/S172
June 6	Andrew McAfee Harvard Business School	Is There Evidence that IT Matters?: Recent Changes in the Competitive Dynamics of US Industries and their Association with IT Intensity Abstract Paper	4:00-5:00 pm/L107

Winter 2007	Speaker	Title	Time/Place
January 11	Baris Ata Northwestern University	Bid Price Controls for Network Revenue Management	4:00-5:00 pm/L107
January 25	Ben Edelman Harvard University	Bidding for Sponsored Link Advertisements at Internet Search Engines (Abstract) Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords	4:00-5:00 pm/L107
February 6 Tuesday	Dimitris Bertsimas MIT Sloan	Prediction of Health Care Costs Via Data-Mining and Algorithmic Discovery of Medical Knowledge Abstract	4:00-5:00 pm/S170
February 13 Tuesday	Marcelo Olivares University of Pennsylvania	Competing Retailers and Inventory: An Empirical Investigation of U.S. Automobile Dealerships	4:00-5:00 pm/L107
February 14 Wednesday	Omar Besbes Columbia University	Blind Nonparametric Revenue Management Abstract	Noon-1:15 pm/S172
February 15	Melda Ormeci Georgia Institute of Technology	Impulse Control of Brownian Motion: The Constrained Average Cost Case	4:00-5:00 pm/L107
February 27 Tuesday	Ana Radovanovic IBM T. J. Watson Research Center	Profitable Workforce Management in the Presence of Uncertainties Abstract .68KB] Based on: Provably Near-Optimal LP-Based Policies for Revenue Management in Systems with Reusable Resources Asymptotic Blocking Probabilities in Loss Systems with Subexponential Demands Workforce Management and Optimization Using Stochastic Network Models	Noon-1:15 pm/L107
March 16 Friday	Wedad Elmaghraby University of Maryland	Auction design with Non-Convex Costs: An Experimental Approach Abstract	Noon-1:00 pm/L103

Fall 2006	Speaker	Title	Time/Place
October 5	Xuanming Su UC Berkeley	Inter-temporal Pricing with Strategic Customer Behavior	4:00-5:00 pm/L103
October 12	Avishai Mandelbaum Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Data Based Service-Research: Engineering, Science, Management Data MOCCA = Data MOdels for Call Centers Analysis Abstract	4:00-5:00 pm/L103
October 19	Edwin Romeijn University of Florida	Radiation Therapy Treatment Plan Optimization: Models and Algorithms Abstract Related Paper	4:00-5:00 pm/L103
November 9	Nicos Savva University of Cambridge	Real Options in Partnerships (joint work with Stefan Scholtes)	4:00-5:00 pm/L103
November 16	Terry Taylor Columbia University	Incentives for Retailer Forecasting: Rebates versus Returns Abstract .54KB]	4:00-5:00 pm/L103
November 29	Nick McKeown Stanford Electrical Engineering Department		Noon-1:00 pm/L107
November 30	Jeremie Gallien MIT	Inventory Management of a Fast-Fashion Retail Network (joint work with Felipe Caro, UCLA) Abstract	4:00-5:00 pm/L103
December 8	Mor Armony New York University	Cross Selling in Call Centers Abstract When Promotions Meet Operations: Cross-Selling and Its Effect on Call-Center Performances Cross-Selling in a Call Center with a Heterogeneous Customer Population	4:00-5:00 pm/L103