2021-22 Academic Year
Dr. Priyank Arora, Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Analysis of Farm Equipment Sharing in Emerging Economies
September 10, 2021 | 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Hybrid (via Zoom and in HLH 310)
Dr. Xuying Zhao, Associate Professor of Operations Management, University of Notre Dame
Title: Strategic Timing and Pricing For Selling Bonus Actions in Video Games
September 17, 2021 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | Hybrid (via Zoom and in HLH 310)
Dr. Gopesh Anand, Professor of Business Administration and William N. Scheffel Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Product Recalls, Innovation, and Learning
October 1, 2021 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | Hybrid (via Zoom and in HLH 310)
Dr. Diwas KC, Goizueta Foundation Term Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management, Emory University
Title: Impact of Store Closures on Online Sales and Shopping Behavior
October 29, 2021 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | Hybrid (via Zoom and in HLH 310)
Dr. Stefan Feuerriegel, Professor and Head of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Management, LMU Munich
Title: Solving Management Problems with Explainable AI: Methods, Applications and Business Impact
November 5, 2021 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | Hybrid (via Zoom and in HLH 310)
Title: Analysis of the Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Mexico and Its Charging Infrastructure
November 12, 2021 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | Hybrid (via Zoom and in HLH 310)
Dr. Can Zhang, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Duke University
Title: Partial Completion as a Nonprofit Strategy
December 3, 2021 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | Hybrid (via Zoom and in HLH 310)
2020-21 Academic Year
Dr. Bariş Ata, Chookaszian Family Professor of Operations Management, University of Chicago
Title: Structural Estimation of Kidney Transplant Candidates’ Quality of Life Scores: Improving National Kidney Allocation Policy Under Endogenous Patient Choice and Geographical Structure
September 25, 2020 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | via Zoom
Dr. Bilal Khan, Happold Professor in the Sociology and Computer Science Departments, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Title: A New Platform to Collect Continuous Contextual Data on Attitudes and Behaviors from Networked Populations Over Long Timescales
October 2, 2020 | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | via Zoom
Dr. Luv Sharma, Assistant Professor of Management Science, University of South Carolina
Title: An Empirical Study of Food Waste in U.S. Food Banks
October 16, 2020 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | via Zoom
Dr. Krishnamurthy Iyer, Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota
Title: Information Design for Congested Social Services: Optimal Need-Based Persuasion
October 23, 2020 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | via Zoom
Dr. Ruizhi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Title: Adaptive Change-Point Detection on the Ising Model and Non-Convex M-Estimation
October 30, 2020 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | via Zoom
Dr. Meng Li, Associate Professor in Operations Management, Rutgers University
Title: AI and Procurement
November 6, 2020 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | via Zoom
Dr. Yixin (Iris) Wang, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois
Title: Manufacturing and Regulatory Barriers to Generic Drug Competition: A Structural Model Approach
December 4, 2020 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | via Zoom
Dr. Susan Lu, Gerald Lyles Rising Star Associate Professor of Management, Purdue University
Title: The Value of Health IT Interoperability: Evidence from Interhospital Transfer of Heart Attack Patients
March 5, 2021 | 10 – 11:30 a.m. | via Zoom
Dr. Chao Liang, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Title: E-tailers’ Inventory Storage Location and Pricing Decisions with Strategic Customer Behavior Consideration
March 26, 2021 | 9:30 – 11 a.m. | via Zoom
Dr. Yen-Ting (Daniel) Lin, Department Chair of Operations, Supply Chain Management and Information Technology Management and Associate Professor of Operations Management, University of San Diego
Title: Implication of Return Shipping Insurance on E-commerce Platforms and Vendors
April 2, 2021 | 12:30 – 2 p.m. | via Zoom
Dr. Long Zhao, , Assistant Professor of Analytics and Operations, National University of Singapore
Title: Not to Invest, It Should be an Option: A Better Pursuit of Maximum-Sharpe Portfolio
April 16, 2021 | 9:30 – 11 a.m. | via Zoom
Dr. Michael Lash, Assistant Professor in Analytics, Information and Operations Management, University of Kansas
Title: Model-Agnostic Human-in-the-Loop Decision Making via Inverse Classification
April 30, 2021 | 10:30 a.m. – noon | via Zoom