Operations, Information & Technology

Our focus in the operations, information, and technology area is on the management of systems, processes, and networks.

Examples include health care systems, product design and manufacturing processes, supply networks, information systems, energy and environmental systems, homeland security systems, and social networks. We employ methods from the fields of operations research, game theory, econometrics, computer science, probability and statistics, and exploit the growing availability of data.

Recent Journal Articles in Operations, Information & Technology

Morris A. Cohen, Hau L. Lee
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. January
2020, Vol. 22, Issue 1, Pages 15-24

This paper considers how research in operations management can support the development of strategies for the design and management of global supply chains. It includes a model-based statement of the...

Stefan Wager, David A. Hirshberg
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. December
20 , 2019, Vol. 38, Issue 1, Pages 19-24

There has recently been a considerable amount of interest in developing methods for statistical inference in high-dimensional regimes with more covariates than data points (Javanmard and Montanari 2014; van de...

Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur, Assaf Zeevi
Stochastic Systems. December
2019, Vol. 9, Issue 4, Pages 319-337

In a multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem a gambler needs to choose at each round of play one of K arms, each characterized by an unknown reward distribution. Reward realizations are...

Kostas Bimpikis, Ozan Candogan, Shayan Ehsani
Management Science. December
2019, Vol. 65, Issue 12, Pages 5449-5956

This paper studies multitier supply chain networks in the presence of disruption risk. Firms decide how much to source from their upstream suppliers so as to maximize their expected profits,...

Santiago Balseiro, Yonatan Gur
Management Science. September
2019, Vol. 65, Issue 9, Pages 3952-3968

In display advertising markets, advertisers often purchase ad placements through bidding in repeated auctions based on realized viewer information. We study how budget-constrained advertisers may compete in such sequential auctions...

Joann de Zegher, Dan A. Iancu, Hau L. Lee
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. June
2019, Vol. 21, Issue 2, Pages 251-477

In complex supply chains, the benefits and costs of technological innovations do not always accrue equitably to all parties; thus, their adoption may critically depend on sourcing relationships and incentives....

Kostas Bimpikis, Davide Crapis, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
Management Science. June
2019, Vol. 65, Issue 6, Pages 2646-2664

This paper studies the strategic interaction between a monopolistic seller of an information product and a set of potential buyers that compete in a downstream market. Our analysis illustrates that...