Boosting Sales and Customer Welfare from Premade Foods (Let the Freshest Chicken Fly off the Shelf First)
Previously circulated as “On the Management of Premade Foods”. Topics: Retail and Pricing · Responsible Operations
Child Labor as an Operational Lever: Heterogeneous Effects of Interventions in Cocoa Supply Chains
Topics: Responsible Operations · Supply Chains
André Calmon
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1 min readPayments for Ecosystem Services: Balancing Upfront and Ex-Post Payments to Overcome Financial Barriers
Topics: Responsible Operations · Operations and Finance
Itai Ashlagi
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1 min readOptimality of Linear Policies in Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control
Topics: Optimization
Bahar Taşkesen
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1 min readArea Conditions and Positive Incentives: Engaging Local Communities to Protect Forests
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”. …
Xavier Warnes
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1 min readOptimized Targeted Confinements for Future Pandemic Response
Previously circulated as “Quantifying and Realizing the Benefits of Targeting for Pandemic Response”. Topics: Healthcare and Policy · Optimization
Sergio Camelo-Gomez
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1 min readIdentifying Forced Labor in the Construction and Food Industries
Topics: Responsible Operations · Supply Chains
Antonio Torres-Skillikorn
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1 min readOptimality of Linear Policies in Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control
Some of this material appeared in a preliminary conference paper entitled “Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control”. 🏆 Finalist, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper …
Bahar Taşkesen
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1 min readInventory for Impact: Scalable Inventory Routing for Clean Cooking Access in Developing Economies
Topics: Energy and Climate · Responsible Operations · Supply Chains
Sergio Camelo-Gomez
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1 min readSupply Chain Intermediation for Clean Cooking Solutions
Topics: Energy and Climate · Responsible Operations · Supply Chains
Stable and Profitable Trading Platforms for Smallholder Commodity Supply Chains
Topics: Responsible Operations · Supply Chains · Optimization
Sergio Camelo-Gomez
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1 min readDynamic Incentives for Improving Smallholder Welfare and Protecting Forests
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”. …
Xavier Warnes
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1 min readAI Solutions for Incentivizing Sustainable Protein Choices in Diets
Topics: Responsible Operations · Fairness in AI
Antoine Desir
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1 min readThe Price of Funding Inflexibility in Humanitarian Operations
Topics: Responsible Operations · Operations and Finance
Thomas Breugem
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1 min readFinancial Access or Price Premiums? A Nuanced View into Improving Farmer Welfare and Reducing Child Labor in Commodity Supply Chains
Topics: Responsible Operations · Operations and Finance · Supply Chains
André Calmon
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1 min readClimate impacts of digital use supply chains
Topics: Energy and Climate · Supply Chains
Lin Shi
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1 min readDistributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control
🏆 Spotlight presentation (3.06% of 12,343 submissions) (2023) Topics: Optimization
Bahar Taşkesen
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1 min readMonitoring with Limited Information
Topics: Operations and Finance · Healthcare and Policy · Optimization
Value Loss in Allocation Systems with Provider Guarantees
Topics: Fairness in AI · Optimization
Yonatan Gur
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1 min readLoyalty Program Liabilities and Point Values
Previously circulated as “Points for Peanuts or Peanuts for Points? Dynamic Management of a Loyalty Program”. Topics: Operations and Finance · Retail and Pricing
So Yeon Chun
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1 min readDesigning Contracts and Sourcing Channels to Create Shared Value
🏆 Finalist, M&SOM Journal Best Paper Prize (2021 and 2022) 🏆 Second place, Best Student Paper in Supply Chain Management, POMS Society (Joann de Zegher) (2016) 🏆 Finalist, M&SOM …
Joann F. De Zegher
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1 min readDynamic Pricing Under Debt: Spiraling Distortions and Efficiency Losses
Topics: Operations and Finance · Retail and Pricing
Omar Besbes
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1 min readDynamic Learning of Patient Response Types: An Application to Treating Chronic Diseases
🏆 Finalist, INFORMS Health Applications William Pierskalla Best Paper Award (2014) Topics: Healthcare and Policy · Optimization
Diana M. Negoescu
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1 min readDisruption Risk and Optimal Sourcing in Multitier Supply Networks
🏆 Finalist, MSOM Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management Best Paper Award (2019) Topics: Supply Chains
Erjie Ang
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1 min readIs Operating Flexibility Harmful Under Debt?
Previously circulated as “Operationalizing Financial Covenants”. 🏆 Winner, MSOM Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management Best Paper Award (2018) Topics: Operations and …
Tight Approximations of Dynamic Risk Measures
Topics: Optimization · Operations and Finance
Fairness and Efficiency in Multiportfolio Optimization
Topics: Operations and Finance · Fairness in AI · Optimization
Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization
🏆 Winner, INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize (2018) 🏆 First place, INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition (2013) Topics: Optimization
Supermodularity and Affine Policies in Dynamic Robust Optimization
Topics: Optimization
A New Local Search Algorithm for Binary Optimization
Topics: Optimization
Dimitris Bertsimas
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1 min readA Hierarchy of Near-Optimal Policies for Multistage Adaptive Optimization
Topics: Optimization
Dimitris Bertsimas
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1 min readPower Generation Management Under Time-Varying Power and Demand Conditions
Topics: Energy and Climate · Optimization
Soumyadip Ghosh
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1 min readAdaptive Robust Optimization with Applications in Inventory and Revenue Management
Topics: Optimization
Optimality of Affine Policies in Multistage Robust Optimization
🏆 Best Student Paper Prize, INFORMS Optimization Society (2009) Topics: Optimization
Dimitris Bertsimas
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1 min readOptimality of Affine Policies in Multi-stage Robust Optimization
Topics: Optimization
Dimitris Bertsimas
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1 min readGeometric Approach to Digital Quantum Information. Quantum Entanglement