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Sergei Savin
Associate Professor


Professor Savin’s research expertise is centered on operational aspects of health care delivery, improving patient access to care, and optimal management of diagnostic and treatment capacity. His articles have appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, among others, and he also actively participates in editorial activities for several premier journals including Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management.

Professor Savin teaches a doctoral level course on optimization and the Core MBA course on Management Science.

Before joining the Wharton School in July 2009, Professor Savin was on the faculty at the Columbia Business School and the London Business School. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Operations and Information Management from the Wharton School in 2001.

Publications
Teck-Hua Ho, Sergei Savin, Christian Terwiesch, “Managing Demand and Sales Dynamics in New Product Diffusion”, Management Science, 48 (2002), 187-206.
Sergei Savin, Christian Terwiesch, “Optimal Product Launch Times in a Duopoly: Balancing Lifecycle Revenues", Operations Research, 53 (2005), 26-47.
Christian Terwiesch, Il-Horn Hann, Sergei Savin, “Online Haggling at a Name-Your-Own-Price Retailer: Theory and Application”, Management Science, 51 (2005), 339-351.
Sergei Savin, Morris A. Cohen, Noah Gans, Ziv Katalan, “Capacity Management in Rental Businesses with Two Customer Bases”, Operations Research, 53 (2005), 617-631.
Linda Green, Sergei Savin, Ben Wang, “Managing Patient Service in a Diagnostic Medical Facility”, Operations Research, 54 (2006), 11-25.

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Current Research
Sergei Savin, Chander Velu, “Adoption of Technological Innovations in Network Markets”
Houyuan Jiang, Serguei Netessine, Sergei Savin, “Robust Newsvendor Competition Under Asymmetric Information”
Sergei Savin, Ben Wang, “Capacity Allocation in Rental Businesses with Reservations”
Linda Green, Sergei Savin, Nicos Savva, "Nurse Staffing in the Presence of Absenteeism”
Anupam Agrawal, Serguei Netessine, Sergei Savin, “Modularity, Incentives and Contracts”

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In The News
“Calculate Your Ideal Patient Load: How to Strike the Correct Balance”, American Medical Association News, 05/12/2008, Sergei Savin
“An Open-Access Doctor’s Office”, Business Week, 02/12/2007, Sergei Savin

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Savin Sergei
Sergei Savin
 3730 Walnut Street
570 Jon M. Hunstman Hall
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: 215-898-1175
savin@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
  • Capacity and patient flow management in health care operations
  • Revenue management
  • Diffusion models for new products and services


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