Article | Dan A. Iancu

Child Labor as an Operational Lever: Heterogeneous Effects of Interventions in Cocoa Supply Chains

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Topics: Responsible Operations · Supply Chains

Area Conditions and Positive Incentives: Engaging Local Communities to Protect Forests

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Some of this material appeared in a previous paper entitled “Sustaining Smallholders and Rainforests by Eliminating Payment Delay in a Commodity Supply Chain — It Takes a Village”.

Winner, SAWIT Challenge, USAID & Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (2016)

Finalist, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition (J. de Zegher) (2018)

Topics: Responsible Operations · Fairness in AI

Optimized Targeted Confinements for Future Pandemic Response

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Previously circulated as “Quantifying and Realizing the Benefits of Targeting for Pandemic Response”.

Topics: Healthcare and Policy · Optimization

Optimality of Linear Policies in Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Some of this material appeared in a preliminary conference paper entitled “Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control”.

Finalist, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition (B. Taşkesen) (2023)

Topics: Optimization

Stable and Profitable Trading Platforms for Smallholder Commodity Supply Chains

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Topics: Responsible Operations · Supply Chains · Optimization