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Christian Terwiesch
Professor,  Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics


Professor Terwiesch teaches MBA and executive classes in the areas of operations management and product development at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a visiting appointment at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. For his operations management courses at Wharton, he has received several teaching awards.

His research on product development and supply chain management appears in many of the leading academic journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Marketing Science, Organization Science, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. He is also active on various editorial boards for journals including Management Science and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

Professor Terwiesch has researched with and consulted for various organizations, including a project on concurrent engineering for BMW, supply chain management for Intel and Medtronic, R&D pipeline management for Merck, product customization for Dell, and operations improvements for several large hospitals. He is the co-author of Matching Supply with Demand, a widely used text-book in Operations Management.

He is a cycling fanatic and is still racing long distance triathlon races in Europe and the US. Along with his wife and three children, he enjoys spending the summers in Europe.

Publications
Christian Terwiesch, Yi Xu (2008), Innovation Contests, Open Innovation, and Multi-agent Problem Solving, Management Science, 1529-1543
Gérard Cachon, Christian Terwiesch, Yi Xu (2008), On the Effects of Consumer Search and Market Entry in a Multi-product Competitive Market, Marketing Science, 461-473
Marcelo Olivares, Christian Terwiesch, Lydia Cassorla (2008), Structural Estimation of the Newsvendor Model: An Application to Reserving Operating Room Time, Management Science, 45-55
Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch, Karl Ulrich (2007), Valuing R&D Projects in a Portfolio: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Indust, Management Science, 1452-1466
Marcelo Olivares, Christian Terwiesch, Lydia Cassorla (2007), Reserving Operating Room Capacity: A Structural Estimation Approach Based on the Newsvendor Model, Management Science

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Current Research
Andres Musalem, Marcelo Olivares, Eric Bradlow, Christian Terwiesch, Daniel Corsten, Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks
Jiri Horak, Diwas Kc, Christian Terwiesch, Cardiothoracic Surgery Risk Stratification for Intra-hospital Decision Making and Inter-hospital Quality Comparisons using EuroSCORE
Diwas Kc, Christian Terwiesch, An Empirical Analysis of Patient Flow in the Cardiac ICU
Jim Cannon, Taylor Randall, Christian Terwiesch, An Operations Based Earnings Prediction Model Applied to the US Airline Industry
Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch, Karl Ulrich, Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea

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In The News
German Scientists in the USA - Meeting with German Politicians, Focus, 04/02/2006, Christian Terwiesch

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Knowledge@Wharton
European Disunion: Citizens' Fears over Globalization and Jobs Divide the EU, 11/16/2005, Christian Terwiesch
As Sony Gets a Tune-up, Samsung Zooms Ahead, 10/19/2005, Christian Terwiesch
The IBM/Lenovo Deal: Victory For China?, 01/14/2005, Christian Terwiesch
Germany: The Deadlocked Republic?, 10/09/2002, Christian Terwiesch
A New Approach to Valuing Biotech Stocks, 10/24/2001, Christian Terwiesch

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Books and Book Chapters
Books

  • Terwiesch, Christian, Karl T. Ulrich, Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities, Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Spring 2009 (book web-site)
  • Cachon, Gerard, Christian Terwiesch, Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management, 2nd edition, Irwin - McGraw Hill, 2008 (ISBN 978-0073525167, 504 pages) (book web-site)

Book Chapters

  • Loch, Christoph H., Christian Terwiesch, “Product Development and Concurrent Engineering”, in Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management, P. M. Swamidass, (Ed.), Kluwer Publication 2000
  • Terwiesch, Christian, “Product Development as a Problem Solving Process”, forthcoming in the Blackwell Handbook on Technology and Innovation Management (ed. by Scott Shane)
  • Loch, Christoph H., Christian Terwiesch, “Coordination in Product Development”, forthcoming in Handbook on Product Development (ed. by Kavadias and Loch)

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Honors And Awards
Executive MBA Core Teaching Award, 2009
Wharton Class of 2008 “Goes above and beyond the call of duty” award recipient, 2008
One of ten faculty nominated by the MBA student body for the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2007
MBA Core Teaching Award, 2007
Miller-Sherrerd Core Teaching Award, 2006

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Projects
Christian Terwiesch, Service Worker Productivity Analysis
Christian Terwiesch, Analyzing Operational Performance
Ulrich, Christian Terwiesch, Innovation Pipelines
Christian Terwiesch, Open Innovations and New Forms of Organizing R&D Work

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Executive Education
Director of Strategic R&D Management

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Terwiesch Christian
Christian Terwiesch
3730 Walnut Street
548 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Philadelphia, PA19104
Phone: (215) 898-8541
terwiesch@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests: Innovation Management, Analyzing Operational Performance, Lean Operations, R&D Management, Innovation Portfolios Various Industries, including hospitals, pharmaceuticals, online stores, semi-conductors, financial services


Last Modified November 11, 2009