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SEMINARS
 
  19 Sep 2006
 
Operations Research and Homeland Security: From Models to Implementation
Speaker / Affiliation: Larry Wein
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  19 Sep 2006
 
Operations Research and Homeland Security: From Models to Implementation
Speaker / Affiliation: Larry Wein, Standford University
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  26 Sep 2006
 
Subjective Value in Negotiation
Speaker / Affiliation: Jared Curhan, Sloan School of Management, MIT
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  03 Oct 2006
 
Serguei Netessine
Speaker / Affiliation: OPIM Faculty Member, The Wharton School
 
  10 Oct 2006
 
Reducing Customer Dissatisfaction: How Important is Learning to Reduce Service Failure?
Speaker / Affiliation: Michael Lapre, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
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  17 Oct 2006
 
Asset Characteristics and the Impact of IT on Firm Scope and Performance
Speaker / Affiliation: Gautam Ray, The University of Texas at Austin
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  24 Oct 2006
 
Affect Analysis and Visualization of Extremist Group Forums
Speaker / Affiliation: Hsinchun Chen from the University of Arizona
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  31 Oct 2006
 
James Dana
Speaker / Affiliation: Northwestern University
 
  21 Nov 2006
 
Ed Kaplan
Speaker / Affiliation: Yale University
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  21 Nov 2006
 
Suicide Bombings and Targeted Killings in (Counter) Terror Games
Speaker / Affiliation: Yale University
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  28 Nov 2006
 
Baris Ata
Speaker / Affiliation: Northwestern University
 
  05 Dec 2006
 
Process Improvement Projects, Nurse-physician collaboration and Patient Outcomes in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Speaker / Affiliation: Anita Tucker: The Wharton School and Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
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  09 Jan 2007
 
Recommendation Networks and the Long Tail of Electronic Commerce
Speaker / Affiliation: Gal Oestreicher-Singer, NYU Stern
 
  11 Jan 2007
 
Let the Pirates Patch? An Economic Analysis of Network Software Security Patch Restrictions
Speaker / Affiliation: Terrence August, Stanford University
 
  16 Jan 2007
 
The Temporal Value Asymmetry
Speaker / Affiliation: Eugene Caruso, Harvard University
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  23 Jan 2007
 
Blind Nonparametric Revenue Management
Speaker / Affiliation: Omar Besbes, Columbia University
 
  24 Jan 2007
 
Why Is It So Hard to Concentrate on Our Work? The Difficulty of Transitioning Attention When Switching between Work Tasks
Speaker / Affiliation: Sophie Leroy, NYU Stern
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  25 Jan 2007
 
Incentives for Quality through Endogenous Routing
Speaker / Affiliation: Lauren (Xiaoyuan) Lu, Northwestern University
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  30 Jan 2007
 
Reacting to Rankings: Evidence from “America’s Best Hospitals and Colleges”
Speaker / Affiliation: Devin Pope, University of California at Berkeley
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  20 Feb 2007
 
Claiming a large slice of a small pie: Asymmetric disconfirmation in negotiation
Speaker / Affiliation: Rick Larrick, Duke University
 
  27 Feb 2007
 
Designing Price Contracts for Boundedly Rational Customers: Does the Number of Blocks Matter?
Speaker / Affiliation: Teck Ho, UC Berkeley
 
  13 Mar 2007
 
Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales
Speaker / Affiliation: Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT
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  27 Mar 2007
 
Blockbuster Culture’s Next Rise or Fall: The Effect of Recommender Systems on Sales Diversity
Speaker / Affiliation: Kartik Hosanagar (with Daniel Fleder), Wharton OPIM Department
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  03 Apr 2007
 
Inventory Models for Partially Substitutable Products
Speaker / Affiliation: Raj Rajagopalan, Marshall School of Business, UCLA
 
  10 Apr 2007
 
Nelson Repenning (CANCELLED)
Speaker / Affiliation: MIT
 
  17 Apr 2007
 
Revenue Management with Strategic Customers: Selling through Opaque Channels
Speaker / Affiliation: Senthil Veeraraghavan, The Wharton School
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  01 May 2007
 
Organizational Learning Curves: The Effect of Information Technology on the Acquisition, Retention and Transfer of Performance Gains
Speaker / Affiliation: Linda Argote, Carnegie Mellon
 
  18 Sep 2007
 
“Will More Purchasing Options Benefit Customers?”
Speaker / Affiliation: Chris Tang/UCLA
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  25 Sep 2007
 
Optimizing Dynamic Time-to-Market and Production Decisions For a Component Supplier
Speaker / Affiliation: Ozalp Ozer/Stanford
 
  09 Oct 2007
 
Lost Sales Inventory Models: Some Recent Results
Speaker / Affiliation: Ganesh Janakiraman/NYU
 
  16 Oct 2007
 
Privacy Risks from Mining Online Social Networks: Profiles as Breeding Documents
Speaker / Affiliation: Alessandro Acquisti/CMU
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  23 Oct 2007
 
Bidding for Sponsored Link Advertisements at Internet Search Engines
Speaker / Affiliation: Ben Edelman/HBS
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  30 Oct 2007
 
Inventory Management of a Fast-Fashion Retail Network
Speaker / Affiliation: Felipe Caro/UCLA
 
  20 Nov 2007
 
Prediction of Healthcare Costs via Data-Mining ...
Speaker / Affiliation: Dimitris Bertsimas/MIT
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  27 Nov 2007
 
Workforce Management in Call Centers: Some Empirically-Driven Problems
Speaker / Affiliation: Haipeng Shen/UNC Chapel Hill
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  04 Dec 2007
 
Coordination Networks in Product Development
Speaker / Affiliation: Manuel Sosa/INSEAD
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  08 Jan 2008
 
Service-Level Differentiation in Large-Scale Service Systems
Speaker / Affiliation: Itay Gurvich/Columbia University (joint work with Ward Witt)
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  10 Jan 2008
 
Is Inventory's Fiscal Year End Effect Caused by Sales Timing? A Test Using a Natural Experiment from Germany
Speaker / Affiliation: Richard Lai/HBS
 
  15 Jan 2008
 
Take This Advice And Shove It: When And Why We Discount Advice
Speaker / Affiliation: Francesca Gino/Carnegie Mellon
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  17 Jan 2008
 
Information Sharing and Order Variability Control Under a Generalized Demand Model
Speaker / Affiliation: Li Chen/Stanford University
 
  22 Jan 2008
 
Productivity Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities
Speaker / Affiliation: Kristina Steffenson/Northwestern
 
  29 Jan 2008
 
Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially
Speaker / Affiliation: Stephan Meier/Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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  31 Jan 2008
 
Mechanism Design and Analysis Using Simulation-Based Game Models
Speaker / Affiliation: Yevgeniy "Eugene" Vorobeychik/Univ. of Michigan
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  05 Feb 2008
 
An Empirical Analysis of Contract Structures in IT Outsourcing
Speaker / Affiliation: Yuanyuan Chen/Emory University
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  07 Feb 2008
 
Evidence-Based Incentive Systems with an Application in Health Care Delivery
Speaker / Affiliation: Donald Lee/Stanford Univ.
 
  11 Feb 2008
 
Revenue Management by Sequential Screening
Speaker / Affiliation: Mustafa Akan/Northwestern
 
  13 Feb 2008
 
Credible Signaling in Real-time Trust Dilemmas
Speaker / Affiliation: Ryan Murphy/Columbia Univ.
 
  26 Feb 2008
 
Quality Sorting and Revenue Implications of Pay-for-Performance Advertising in Environments with Quality Uncertainty
Speaker / Affiliation: Chris Dellarocas/Univ. of Maryland
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  04 Mar 2008
 
Six Degrees: The Science of A Connected Age
Speaker / Affiliation: Duncan Watts/Columbia/Yahoo!
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  25 Mar 2008
 
Strategic Information Management Under Leakage in a Supply Chain
Speaker / Affiliation: Krishnan Anand/The Wharton School
 
  01 Apr 2008
 
Demand Forecasting with Financial Indicators and Experts' Input
Speaker / Affiliation: Vishal Gaur/Cornell
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  08 Apr 2008
 
Who Prices? Manufacturer’s Versus Retailers’ Control of Retail Prices
Speaker / Affiliation: Ilia Tsetlin/INSEAD
 
  15 Apr 2008
 
Dynamic Pricing For Non-Perishable Products With Demand Learning
Speaker / Affiliation: Rene Caldentey/NYU
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  29 Apr 2008
 
A Little Flexibility is All You Need: Optimality of Tailored Chaining
Speaker / Affiliation: Jan van Mieghem/Northwestern U.
 
  16 Sep 2008
 
TBA
Speaker / Affiliation: John Riedl/University of Minnesota
 
  23 Sep 2008
 
TBA
Speaker / Affiliation: Scott Rick/Wharton School
 
  07 Oct 2008
 
TBA
Speaker / Affiliation: Michael Haselhuhn/Wharton School
 
  21 Oct 2008
 
Behavioral Pricing: Consumer Biases and Firm Response
Speaker / Affiliation: Ioana Popescu/INSEAD
 
  28 Oct 2008
 
TBA
Speaker / Affiliation: Alan Scheller-Wolf/Carnegie Mellon
 
  04 Nov 2008
 
TBA
Speaker / Affiliation: Nicholas Economides/NYU
 
  11 Nov 2008
 
Time is Money: Dynamic Leadtime Quotation Under General Customer Utilities
Speaker / Affiliation: Tava Olsen/Washington University
 
  18 Nov 2008
 
Dynamics of Network Structure and content in an Organizational Forum
Speaker / Affiliation: Ramayya Krishnan/Carnegie Mellon
 
  25 Nov 2008
 
TBA
Speaker / Affiliation: Alex Markle/NYU
 
  02 Dec 2008
 
TBA
Speaker / Affiliation: Steve Graves/MIT
 
  13 Jan 2009
 
Optimal Flexibility Configurations in Newsvendor Networks: Going Beyond Chaining and Pairing
Speaker / Affiliation: Ramandeep Randhawa/University of Texas Austin
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  20 Jan 2009
 
Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals
Speaker / Affiliation: Katherine Milkman/Harvard
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  22 Jan 2009
 
The Benefits of Aligning Behaviors in Social Interactions"?
Speaker / Affiliation: Scott Wilermuth/Stanford
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  27 Jan 2009
 
An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to the Sequence-Dependent Economic Lot Scheduling
Speaker / Affiliation: Christiane Barz/University of Chicago-GSB
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  29 Jan 2009
 
Micro-costs: Inertia in television viewing
Speaker / Affiliation: Constanca Esteves-Sorenson/Univeristy of California-Berkeley
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  03 Feb 2009
 
Designing Reputation Mechanisms for Efficient Trade
Speaker / Affiliation: Christina Aperjis/Stanford U.
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  05 Feb 2009
 
Has Information Technology Leveled the Competitive Playing Field?
Speaker / Affiliation: Adam Saunders/MIT
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  05 Feb 2009
 
Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments: How Physicians Can Make More Money with Fewer Patients
Speaker / Affiliation: Sergei Savin/Columbia U.
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  17 Mar 2009
 
Breast Cancer Identificaton: KDD CUP Winner's Report
Speaker / Affiliation: Claudia Perlich/IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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  24 Mar 2009
 
Search Engine Advertising: Organic Links, Sponsored Search and User-Generated Content in Electronic Markets
Speaker / Affiliation: Anindya Ghose/ New York University
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  31 Mar 2009
 
Quality-Speed Conundrum: Tradeoffs in Labor-Intensive Services
Speaker / Affiliation: Senthil Veeraraghavan/Wharton School, OPIM Department
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  07 Apr 2009
 
Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor
Speaker / Affiliation: Ananth Raman/Harvard
 
  14 Apr 2009
 
Tom Sawyer Content Production of the Internet: Getting the Good Stuff In, Keeping the Bad Stuff Out"
Speaker / Affiliation: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason/University of Michigan
 
  28 Apr 2009
 
Does a Manufacturer Benefit from Sellling to a Better-Forecasting Retailer?
Speaker / Affiliation: Terry Taylor/Haas School UC Berkeley
 
  22 Sep 2009
 
Too Tired to Tell the Truth: Self-Control Resource Depletion and Dishonesty
Speaker / Affiliation: Maurice Schweitzer/OPIM Department
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  29 Sep 2009
 
Regional Disadvantage? Non-compete Agreements and Brain Drain
Speaker / Affiliation: Lee Fleming/Matt Marx/Harvard/MIT
 
  06 Oct 2009
 
Large-Scale Optimization Strategies for Optimal Cancer Treatment Design
Speaker / Affiliation: Eva Lee/Georgia Tech.
 
  20 Oct 2009
 
In Pursuit of Coordination and Control Revisiting the Effects of Contracts on Trust
Speaker / Affiliation: Deepak Malhotra/Harvard
 
  27 Oct 2009
 
Optimal Pricing with Speculators and Strategic Consumers
Speaker / Affiliation: Xuanming Su//Berkeley
 
  03 Nov 2009
 
The Trouble with Online Dating, or Why Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Speaker / Affiliation: Michael Norton/Harvard
 
  10 Nov 2009
 
Warranty Costs Sharing in a Supply Chain
Speaker / Affiliation: Fangruo Chen/Columbia
 
  17 Nov 2009
 
The Shortest Distance Between Two Points: Illusions (and Between) of Linear Reasoning
Speaker / Affiliation: Rick Larrick/Duke U.
 
  08 Dec 2009
 
To Be Announced
Speaker / Affiliation: Jacomo Corbo/Wharton, OPIM Dept.
 
  09 Mar 2010
 
To Be Announced
Speaker / Affiliation: Rahul Telang/Carnegie Mellon U.
 
  16 Mar 2010
 
To Be Announced
Speaker / Affiliation: Rahul Telang/CMU
 
  23 Mar 2010
 
To Be Announced
Speaker / Affiliation: Tech Ho/Berkeley
 
  23 Mar 2010
 
To Be Announced
Speaker / Affiliation: Teck Ho/Berkeley
 
  20 Apr 2010
 
To Be Announced
Speaker / Affiliation: Stefanos Zenios/Stanford
 
  27 Apr 2010
 
To Be Announced
Speaker / Affiliation: Pei-yu Chen/Temple University

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CONFERENCES
 
  18 Sep 2006
 
Seeds of Disaster
Institutional / Sponsoring Organization: Risk Center
Contact Name: Cynthia
Phone: (215) 898-4716
Email: elisha@wharton.upenn.edu
 
  08 Feb 2007
 
Service Supply Chain Thought Leaders Forum
Institutional / Sponsoring Organization: Fishman-Davidson Center
Contact Name: Morris Cohen
Email: cohen@wharton.upenn.edu
 
  09 Feb 2007
 
Service Supply Chain Thought Leaders Forum
Institutional / Sponsoring Organization: Fishman-Davidson center
Contact Name: Morris Cohen
 
  08 May 2007
 
Third Workshop on Sponsored Search Auctions (Banff, Canada)
Institutional / Sponsoring Organization: In conjunction with the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007)
Contact Name: Kartik Hosanagar
Email: ssa3-organizers@wharton.upenn.edu
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  27 Sep 2007
 
Workshop on Empirical Research in Operations Management (Sept. 27-28, 2007)
Institutional / Sponsoring Organization: OPIM Dept. and the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management
Contact Name: Kim Watford
Email: watfordk@wharton.upenn.edu
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  20 May 2008
 
Consortium for Operational Excellence in Retailing (COER) Conference (May 20-21, 2008)
Institutional / Sponsoring Organization: OPIM Dept. and the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management
 
  12 Nov 2009
 
Workshop for Empirical Research in Operations Management
 
  13 Nov 2009
 
Workshop for Empirical Research in Operations Management

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