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Date	Details
10 October 2024	Negin Golrezaei Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Online Learning via Offline Greedy Algorithms: Applications in Market Design and Optimization"
4 October 2024	Song-Hee Kim Associate Professor, Seoul National University "To Each Their Own (Shifts): Incorporating Heterogeneous Worker Preferences into Shift Work Schedules"
18 September 2024	Nikolay Osadchiy Associate Professor, Emory University "Fragmentation and Visibility in Supply Networks"
6 September 2024	Geoffrey Chua Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University "An Algorithmic Approach to Managing Supply Chain Data Security: The Differentially Private Newsvendor"
2 September 2024	Ming HU Professor, University of Toronto "Randomization in Product, Fulfillment, and Pricing as a Profit Lever"
30 August 2024	Safak Yucel Associate Professor, Georgetown University "Delivery Terms for Voluntary Carbon Offsets"
12 June 2024	Sezer Ülkü Professor, Georgetown University "Social Queues"
20 May 2024	Hsiao-Hui Lee Distinguished Professor, National Chengchi University "From Storefronts to Screens: An Exploration of Ship-from-Store, Customer Behavior, and SKU-Level Impacks"
3 May 2024	Vivek Choudhary Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University "A Field Experiment in Nudging Doctors to Safety"
26 April 2024	Guodong Lyu Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Does Locker Alliance Network Improve Last Mile Delivery Efficiency"
19 April 2024	Ian Zhu Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore "Inverse Optimization: Theory and Applications"
12 April 2024	Martin Jes Iversen Executive Councellor of International Affairs and Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School MPA Professor in Maritime Business, Lee Kong Chian School of Business "Buoyed by Trust: Ecosystems and loyalty in container shipping"
8 April 2024	Nitish Jain Assistant Professor, London Business School "The Role of Return Enviroment on Contingent Free Shipping Policies"
25 March 2024	Sasa Zorc Assistant Professor, University of Virginia "Search with Recall and Gaussian Learning"
15 March 2024	Wei Qi Associate Professor, Tsinghua University "Retail on Autonomous Wheels: Spatial Queueing and Online Facility Location"
12 March 2024	Fuqiang Zhang Dan Broida Professor, Washington University in St Louis "The Bright Side of Price Volatility in Global Commodity Procurement"
22 February 2024	Mohamed Mostagir Associate Professor, University of Michigan "The Economics of Ghosting"

Date	Details
1 June 2006	Andrew Lim Associate Professor in Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Journal Ranking: Methods and Experiments"
24 March 2006	John J. Liu Head, and Chair Professor of Maritime Studies Department of Logistics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Effective Supply Capability and Stability in Supply Order Fulfillment"
20 March 2006	Samar K. Mukhopadhyay Associate Professor of Production and Operations Management School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee "Closed Loop Supply Chain : A Research Agenda on Return Policy"
9 Jan 2006	Donald D. Eisenstein Professor of Operations Management Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago "Self-Organising Cyclic Logistics Systems"

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14 December 2007	Nils Rudi Associate Professor and Coordinator Technology and Operations Management INSEAD "Who prices? Manufacturer's versus retailers' control of retail prices"
7 December 2007	Chi-Guhn Lee Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto "Supply Selection in the EOQ Model with Binomial Yield"
23 November 2007	Lieven Demeester Assistant Professor of Operations Management INSEAD "Organic Production Systems: An Emerging Operations Strategy?"
18 October 2007	Stephen Shum Assistant Professor of Information and Systems Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Effective Contracts in Supply Chains"
5 October 2007	Chung-Yee Lee Chair Professor of the Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Department Logistics and Supply Chain Management Institute The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Research and Publication in Scheduling and Logistics: An Experience Sharing"
28 September 2007	Yunzeng Wang Associate Professor of Operations Management School of Management of University of Texas, Dallas "Channel Structure and Performance of Decentralized Assembly Systems with Price-Sensitive and Uncertain Demand"
27 September 2007	Yunzeng Wang Associate Professor of Operations Management School of Management of University of Texas, Dallas "Channel Performance under Consignment Contract with Revenue Sharing"
6 August 2007	Kevin R. Gue Associate Professor Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Auburn University "Surprising Designs for Unit-Load Warehouses"
15 May 2007	Robert de Souza Executive Director and Chief Executive, The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific Hoong Chuin Lau Associate Professor of Information Systems, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University "The Logistics Institute Asia Pacific and Some Research Challenges"
4 May 2007	Chung Piaw Teo Associate Professor in Department of Decision Sciences NUS Business School, National University of Singapore "Complex Choice Modeling Under Incomplete Information: An Overview of the Persistency Model"
19 April 2007	Mahmut Parlar Professor of Management Science DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University "Pricing and Leadtime Decisions in Decentralized Supply Chains"
17 April 2007	Jihong Ou Associate Professor in Department of Decision Sciences NUS Business School, National University of Singapore "Studies on Ticket Queues"
5 April 2007	Rachel Q. Zhang Associate Professor in Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Pushing Quality Improvement along Supply Chains"
26 March 2007	Jiawei Zhang Assistant Professor of Operations Management Stern School of Business, New York University "Cost Allocation for Joint Replenishment Models"
23 March 2007	Hein Thuan Loy Adjunct Faculty of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University "Port Operations and Management Science"
22 March 2007	Roman Kapuscinski Associate Professor of Operations and Management Science Ross Business School, University of Michigan "Advance Selling with Limited Capacity"
16 March 2007	Melvyn Sim Assistant Professor in Department of Decision Sciences NUS Business School, National University of Singapore "A Linear-Decision Based Approximation Approach to Stochastic Programming"
9 February 2007	Jia Shu Visiting Assistant Professor of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University "Efficient Algorithms for Distribution Network Design Optimization"

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14 November 2008	Yaozhong Wu Assistant Professor Department of Decision Sciences, NUS Business School "Managing Present-Biased Agents in Projects"
19 September 2008	Susan H. Xu Professor Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University "Joint Dynamic Pricing of Multiple Perishable Products Under Consumer Choice"
27 August 2008	Seungjin Whang Jagdeep and Roshni Singh Professor Operations, Information, and Technology, Stanford Business School "Timing of RFID Adoption in a Supply Chain"
15 August 2008	Suresh P. Sethi Charles & Nancy Davidson Distinguished Professor & Director, Center for Intelligent Supply Networks School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas "i3: Incomplete Inventory Information- The Next Challenge"
14 August 2008	Gideon Weiss Professor Department of Statistics, University of Haifa, Israel "Scheduling and control of queues - bridging the deterministic stochastic gap"
12 August 2008	Suresh P. Sethi Charles & Nancy Davidson Distinguished Professor & Director, Center for Intelligent Supply Networks School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas "Cooperative Advertising and Pricing in a Dynamic Stochastic Supply Chain: Feedback Stackelberg Strategies"
10 June 2008	Ananth V Iyer Professor Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management, Krannert School of Management Purdue University "Modeling the Spare Parts Driven Supply Chain"
30 May 2008	Liu Liming Professor in the Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University "The (T, RML) Policy for Joint Dynamic Pricing and Leadtime Quotation"
30 May 2008	Esma S. Gel Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University "Dynamic Price and Lead Time Quotation Strategies for Make-to-Order Systems"
23 May 2008	Mahmut Parlar Professor, Operations Management DeGroote School of Business,McMaster University "Operations Research with Maple: Methods and Models"
25 April 2008	Ozalp Ozer Assistant Professor Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University "An Integrated Framework to Optimize Dynamic Time-to-Market and Production Decisions"
20 February 2008	Albert Y. Ha Professor and Head Department of Information and Systems Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Information Sharing under Supply Chain Competition and Production Diseconomies"
15 February 2008	Jiri Chod Assistant Professor of Operations Management Carroll School of Management, Boston College "Operational Flexibility and Financial Hedging: Substitutes or Complements?"
28 January 2008	Tong Wang PhD candidate Decision Sciences Area, INSEAD "Inventory Management with Advance Demand Information and Flexible Delivery"
26 January 2008	Sridhar Seshadri Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Science Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University "Risk Management in Supply Chains"
21 January 2008	Georgia Perakis Associate Professor Sloan School of Management, MIT "Price and Quantity Competition; Loss of Efficiency, and Profit Comparisons"
21 January 2008	Retsef Levi Assistant Professor Sloan School of Management, MIT "Non-Parametric Data-Driven Policies for Stochastic Inventory Control Models"

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6 November 2009	Brian Tomlin Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth "Mitigating Supply Risk: Dual Sourcing or Process Improvement?"
30 October 2009	Srinagesh Gavirneni Assistant Professor of Operations Management Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University "Transfer Pricing and Offshoring in Global Supply Chains"
2 October 2009	WANG Qinan Associate Professor Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University "Periodic-Review Policies for Distribution Systems with Multiple Retailers and Stochastic Demand"
11 September 2009	Volodymyr Babich Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University "Decentralized Supply Risk Management"
21 August 2009	Scott Webster The Steven Becker Professor of Supply Chain Management, Whitman School of Management of Syracuse University "Ordering and Pricing a Fashion Product to Minimize Regret"
30 June 2009	Andrew Lim Professor and Head, City University of Hong Kong "Value of Information and Analytics - Synergy between Research and Applications"
29 May 2009	Christopher S. Tang Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration, UCLA Anderson School "Managing Time-Based Contracts with Delayed Payments"
22 May 2009	Jim Dai Edenfield Professor School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology "Dynamic Control of Parallel Server Systems"
24 April 2009	Li Jiang Assistant Professor Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "The Effect of Decision Sequence on Supplier Competition in Decentralized Assembly Systems"
30 March 2009	Victor Martinez de Albeniz Assistant Professor Production, Technology and Operations Management, IESE Business School "Safety Stock or Excess Capacity: Trade-offs under Supply Risk"
26 February 2009	Kathryn E. Stecke Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas "Production and Transportation Integration for a Make-to-Order Manufacturing Company with a Commit-to-Delivery Business Mode"
9 February 2009	Sean Zhou Assistant Professor Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong "Integration of Inventory and Pricing Decisions with Costly Price Adjustments"
30 January 2009	Erol A. Pekoz Associate Professor Operations Management, Boston University School of Management "Ranking Hospital Quality"
21 January 2009	Marius Florin Niculescu PhD candidate in Operations, Information and Technology Graduate School of Business, Stanford University "Strategic Release and Pricing of Software in the Presence of Bugs and Quality-Sensitive Customers"

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17 December 2010	Sameer Hasija Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD "Reserving Capacity for Urgent Patients in Primary Care"
24 November 2010	Xin Chen Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Collaborative Supply Chain Games"
21 October 2010	Albert Ha Chair Professor and Head, Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) "Information Sharing in a Supply Chain with a Common Retailer and Production Diseconomies"
8 September 2010	Professor Tava Olsen Ports of Auckland chair in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, University of Auckland Business School "Time Is Money: Dynamic Leadtime Quotation Under General Customer Utilities"
3 September 2010	Tunay Tunca Associate Professor of OIT, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University "Sourcing Flexibility, Spot Trading, and Procurement Contract Structure"
30 August 2010	Harry Groenevelt Associate Professor of Operations Management, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester "Modeling with Simple Inventory Models"
27 August 2010	Yossi Aviv Dan Broida Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management and Area Chair of OMM Olin Business School, Washington University "Recent Research on Strategic Consumer Behavior in Dynamic Pricing Systems"
5 August 2010	Roman Kapuscinski Associate Professor of Operations and Management Science Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Business School Co-director of Tauber Institute for Global Operations "Price Dispersion in Electricity Auctions: Strategic Analysis and Economic Implications"
3 May 2010	Wenjie TANG PhD candidate at INSEAD "Ultimatum Deadlines"
30 April 2010	Terry Taylor Associate Professor University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business "Competitors as Whistle-blowers in Enforcement of Product Standards"
29 April 2010	GUO Pengfei Assistant Professor Department of Logistics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University "On the first-mover advantage in price competition between two servers"
22 April 2010	Enver Yucesan Professor of Operations Research, INSEAD "A New Perspective on Feasibility Determination"
12 April 2010	Augusto Ruperez Micola Assistant Professor Department of Business and Economics of Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona "Are agent-based simulations robust? The wholesale electricity trading case"
9 April 2010	Chung-Lun Li Chair Professor of Logistics Management at the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Dynamic Lot Sizing with All-Units Discount and Resales"
19 March 2010	Mei Xue Associate Professor of Operations Management, Carroll School of Management, Boston College "Why are the banks still opening branches? The impact of virtual channel on physical channel capacity expansion"
12 February 2010	Jurgen Mihm Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD "Incentives in New Product Development Projects and the Role of Target Costing"
29 January 2010	Dana Popescu Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD "Revenue Management for Ad Sales"
8 January 2010	Jeannette Song Professor and Area Coordinator Operations Management, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA "No-Holdback Allocation Rules for Continuous-Time Assemble-to-Order Systems"

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26 August 2011	Harish Krishnan Associate Professor of Operations and Logistics and Director of the Centre for Operations Excellence at the Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia, Canada "Incentives for Transshipment in a Supply Chain with Decentralized Retailers"
28 July 2011	Sridhar Seshadri Professor of Information, Risk and Operations Management, University of Texas "Fixed versus Random Proportion Demand Models for Assortment Planning"
20 April 2011	George Steiner Professor of Production and Management Science, McMaster University "The Earliness-Tardiness Scheduling Problem with Due Date Assignment and Resource-Dependent Processing Times"
15 April 2011	Vernon Hsu Chair Professor and Associate Dean for Research Faculty of Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong "Global Sourcing Decisions for a Multinational Firm"
4 April 2011	Mahmut Parlar Professor of Management Science, McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business "Optimal Keyword Bids in Search-Based Advertising with Stochastic Ad Positions"
1 April 2011	Teo Chee-Chong Assistant Professor at College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) "Linear-System Planning Models for Production Systems and Supply Chains"
18 March 2011	Saif Benjaafar Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota "Carbon Footprint and the Management of Supply Chains: Insights from Simple Models"
11 March 2011	Liu Liming Professor and Associate Head and Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Supply Chain Integration for Inventory and Speed Tradeoff"
25 February 2011	Arnoud De Meyer President of Singapore Management University and Professor, "An Overview of Research on Project Management Under Uncertainty"

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14 December 2012	Burak Kazaz Associate Professor, Syracuse University "Risk Mitigation: Hedging with Supply Chain, Marketing and Finance"
28 September 2012	Arvind Sainathan Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University "Pricing and Replenishment of Competing Perishable Product Variants under Dynamic Demand Substitution"
21 September 2012	Jiri Chod Associate Professor, Boston College "Resource Flexibility and Capital Structure"
7 September 2012	Sripad Devalkar Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business "Managing commodity procurement, processing and trade operations"
30 August 2012	Yulan Wang Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Bilateral Bargaining and Outsourcing Strategies in a Three-Tier Supply Chain"
22 August 2012	Alper Sen Assistant Professor, Bilkent University "Competitive Markdown Timing for Perishable Products"
10 August 2012	Serguei Netessine The Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation, INSEAD "From PhD to Tenure: on getting papers written and published in operations management"
25 July 2012	Leon Yang Chu Associate Professor, University of Southern California "Bundled Procurement for (Free) Technology Acquisition and Future Competition"
8 June 2012	Srinagesh Gavirneni Associate Professor, Cornell University "Fee-For-Service Contracts in Pharmaceutical Distribution Supply Chains: Design, Analysis, and Management"
14 May 2012	Javad Nasiry Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Product Launches and Buying Frenzies: Dynamic Perspective"
11 May 2012	Mirko Kremer Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, The Pennsylvania State University "Herding in Queues"
3 April 2012	Manuel Sosa Associate Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD "Linking Product Architecture and Quality"
30 March 2012	Vinod Singhal Brady Family Professor of Operations Management, Georgia Institute of Technology "Empirical research in Operations Management: Trends and opportunities"
23 March 2012	Ioana Popescu Booz & Company Professor in Revenue Management and Associate Professor of Decision Sciences, INSEAD "Managing Satisfaction and Retention in Service Relationships"
2 March 2012	Liu Fang Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Nanyang Technological University "A Dynamic Mechanism for Achieving Sustainable Quality Supply"

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13 December 2013	Nicos Savva Assistant Professor of Management Science, London Business School "Decomposing the Effect of Workload on Patient Outcomes"
20 November 2013	Terry Taylor Milton W. Terrill Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley "Supplier Evasion of a Buyer's Audit: Implications for Auditing and Compliance with Labor and Environmental Standards"
8 November 2013	Saif Benjaafar Professor and Head of Pillar of Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design "On the Effectiveness of Emission Penalties in Decentralized Supply Chains"
1 November 2013	Hayriye Ayhan Professor Georgia Institute of Technology, "Dynamic Server Allocation in Queueing Networks with Flexible Servers"
30 August 2013	Jim Bookbinder Professor of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo "Perspectives on International Logistics"
16 July 2013	N. Viswanadham INAE distinguished professor in Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science "Ecosystem Aware Global Supply Chain Management"
31 May 2013	Chien-Ming Chen Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University "Supply chain structure, operational leanness, and carbon efficiency"
17 May 2013	Li Jiang Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Incentive-Driven Information Sharing between Competing Firms with an Evolving Sourcing Structure"
26 April 2013	Fang Liu Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University "Optimal Deployment of Emergency Supply Inventory"
22 March 2013	Shilu Tong Lecturer, University of New South Wales "On the Impact of Uncertain Production Learning when Selling to Strategic Customers"
1 March 2013	Shaohui Zheng Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Source Diversification and Pricing for Systems with Unreliable Suppliers"
21 January 2013	Richard de Neufville Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Flexibility in Production Planning"
18 January 2013	Hsiao-Hui Lee Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong "Sustainability and Competition for Limited Critical Resources"

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31 October 2014	Andrew Lim Professor, National University of Singapore "Decentralized control of a stochastic multi-agent service system"
3 October 2014	Kevin Shang Associate Professor, Duke University "Measuring the Bullwhip Effect with Material Flow Data: Biases and Remedies"
5 September 2014	Geoffrey Chua Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University "Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Minimum Total Commitment Contracts with Nonzero Setup Costs"
13 June 2014	Sanjiv Erat Associate Professor, University of California at San Diego "Innovation Contests: Incentive & Performance Implications"
6 June 2014	Lingxiu Dong Associate Professor, Washington University in Saint Louis "Production Chain Disruptions: Inventory and Interruption Insurance"
11 April 2014	Robert Swinney Associate Professor, Duke University "Disruption Risk and Optimal Sourcing in Multi-tier Supply Networks"
4 April 2014	Gurhan Kok Associate Professor of Operations Management, Duke University "Impact of Electricity Pricing Policy on the Investment of Renewable Energy"
28 March 2014	Stephen Graves Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Some reflections and observations on research and publishing"
14 March 2014	Serhan Ziya Associate Professor, University of North Carolina "Capacity Management and Appointment Scheduling for Outpatient Clinics"
27 February 2014	Eddie Anderson Professor of Decision Sciences, University of Sydney Business School "Competing for Contracts with Buyer Uncertainty: Choosing Price and Quality Variables"
21 February 2014	Arvind Sainathan Assistant Professor, Nanyang Business School "Optimal Pricing and Rationing Decisions for Short Life Cycle Products with Time-Sensitive Customers"

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