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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

In The News

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

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

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)

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

Executive Education

Director of Strategic R&D Management

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