Doctoral Seminars

 
Recent OM Doctoral seminars
0M899 - A Capacity
0M899 - B Information in Production Inventory Systems
0M899 - C Transportation and Logistics
OM899 - D Competition and Incentives in Operational Decisions

 
 
A. Capacity
(Instructor - Prof. William Lovejoy)
Class #1 
September 6
Capacity and competitive reaction
Class #2
September 13
Capacity as a deterent to entry
Class #3
September 20
Capacity as a buffer stock
Class #4
September 27
Capital acquisition and the learning organization
Class #5
October 4
Traditional OR approaches to capacity expansion
Class #6
October 11
Capacity as an option 
Class #7
October 18
Issues on capacity decisions at General Motors
Class #8
October 25
Plant loading and capacity investments
Class #9
November 1
The costs of capacity usage at Libby Owen Ford
Class #10
November 8
Costing capacity usage
Class #11
November 15
Complexity as a capacity issue
Class #12
November 22
Scheduling with capacity constraints
Class #13
December 6
Exchange rate fluctuations and information issues in capacity planing.
Guest Speakers
John Birge
     University of Michigan Industrial Engineering
Francine Lafontaine
     University of Michigan Business Economics

 
B. Information in Production Inventory Systems
(Instructor - Prof. Roman Kapuscinski)
Class #1
September 5
Taxonomy and Value of Information
Class #2
September 12
Value of Information
Class #3
September 19
Value of Centralized System
Class #4
September 26
Coordination/Lead Times vs. Information
Class #5
October 3
Bullwhip Effect
Class #6
October 10
Postponement
Class #7
October 17
Information Delays in Supply Chain
Class #8
October 24
Local vs. Global Information
Class #9
October 31
Using Information in Promotions
Class #10
November 7
Contracts
Class #11
November 14
Non-Cooperative System
Class #12
November 21
Allocation of Benefits
Class #13
December 5
Empirical Studies
Guest Speakers
Ravi Anupindi
     Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Art Hsu
     Graduate School of Industrial Administration, 
     Carnegie Mellon University
Fangruo Chen
     Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
Anand Krishnan
     Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Ananth Iyer
     Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
Gerard Cachon
     Fuqua Business School, Duke University

 
C. Transportation and Logistics
 (Instructor - Prof. Ana Muriel)
Class #1 Quantifying Heuristics Effectiveness/Vehicle Routing Problem
Class #2 One-Warehouse Single-Retailer Models
Class #3 One-Warehouse Multi-Retailer Systems
Class #4 Multi-Echelon Systems
Class #5 Warehouse Location Analysis: Customers are served directly from the closest facility
Class #6 Location/Routing Models
Class #7 Network Design: From the carrier's perspective, which links should be serviced?, how often?
Class #8 Divided Ownership and Information Issues
Class #9 Third Party Logistics Providers: Empirical Studies
Guest Speakers
Jeffrey Tew
     GM Enterprise Systems Labor., Global R&D Operations
David Simchi-Levi
     Northwestern University Industrial Engineering

 
 
D. Competition and Incentives in Operational Decisions
(Instructor - Prof. Sudheer Gupta)
Class #1 Modeling Competition
Class #2 A Primer on Strategic Incentives
Class #3 Capacity Investments in Competition
Class #4 Capacity Allocation
Class #5 Inventory Decisions under Competition
Class #6 Vertical Coordination Incentives
Class #7 Coordination in Competing Supply Chains: I
Class #8



Coordination in Competing Supply Chains:II
a) Observability and Renegotiation
b) Empirical Evidence
Class #9 Information Sharing in a (Single) Supply Chain
Class #10 Supply Chain Contracts under Competition
Class #11 Information Sharing under Competition
Class #12 Transaction Costs and Incomplete Contracts
Class #13 Impact of IT on Supply Chain Relations and Coordination Mechanisms
 
Guest Speakers
 

Scott Carr
     The Anderson School at UCLA
Martin A. Lariviere
     Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Charles J. Corbett
     The Anderson School at UCLA
Francine Lafontaine
     University of Michigan Business Economics
Ravi Anupindi
     Stern School of Business New York University
Scott King
     Dell Computer

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William Lovejoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Francine Lafontaine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Roman Kapuscinski
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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