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Christian Terwiesch
Andrew M. Heller Professor at the Wharton School
Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics

Christian Terwiesch is a Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also is a Senior Fellow at Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. His research on Operations Management and on R&D and Innovation Management appears in many of the leading academic journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Marketing Science, and Organization Science. He is also active on various editorial boards for journals including Management Science and Production and 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, and product customization for Dell. Most of his current work relates to healthcare and innovation management. In the healthcare space, some of Professor Terwiesch recent projects include the analysis of capacity allocation for cardiac surgery procedures at UCSF and at HUP, the impact of emergency room crowding on hospital capacity and revenues (also at HUP), and the usage of ICU beds in the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In the innovation space, recent projects include the management of the clinical development portfolio at Merck, the development of open innovation systems, and the design of patient centered care processes in the VA hospital system.

Professor Terwiesch is the co-author of Matching Supply with Demand, a widely used text-book in Operations Management. His latest book, Innovation Tournaments, has just appeared last summer. The novel, process-based approach to innovation outlined in the book was featured by BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, and the Sloan Management Review.

Publications
Andres Musalem, Marcelo Olivares, Eric Bradlow, Christian Terwiesch, Daniel Corsten (2010), Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks, Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 7, 2010 (pp. 1180-1197)
Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch, Karl Ulrich (2010), Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea, Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2010 (pp. 591-605)
Justin Ren, Morris A. Cohen, Teck Ho, Christian Terwiesch (2010), Sharing Forecast Information in a Long-Term Supply Chain Relationship, Operations Research, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2010 (pp. 81-93)
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

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Current Research
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
Christian Terwiesch, Yi Xu, Pro-Social Innovation
Diwas Kc, Christian Terwiesch, The Role of Focus in Operational Performance: A Study of California Hospitals

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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
A 'Prudent' Team Player: Germany Asserts Itself on the World Stage, 11/23/2010, Christian Terwiesch
How Group Dynamics May Be Killing Innovation, 05/12/2010, Christian Terwiesch
Lean Financial Services - Cutting Costs While Reducing Risks, 11/11/2009, Christian Terwiesch
How Can You Find the Most Promising New Opportunities? Hold an Innovation Tournament, 07/15/2009, Christian Terwiesch
Innovation Thrives Among German Firms, Though Hurdles Persist, 04/07/2009, 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
“Goes above and beyond the call of duty” award recipient, 2010
“Tough but I will thank you in five years” award recipient, 2010
One of ten faculty nominated by the MBA student body for the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2010
MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
“Tough but I will thank you in five years” award recipient, 2009

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Projects
Christian Terwiesch, Service Worker Productivity Analysis
Christian Terwiesch, Analyzing Operational Performance
Christian Terwiesch, Ulrich, 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