Publications | Dan A. Iancu

Boosting Sales and Customer Welfare from Premade Foods (Let the Freshest Chicken Fly off the Shelf First)

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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

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

Optimality of Linear Policies in Distributionally Robust Linear Quadratic Control

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

Topics: Optimization

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Balancing Upfront and Ex-Post Payments to Overcome Financial Barriers

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

Topics: Responsible Operations · Operations and Finance

Identifying Forced Labor in the Construction and Food Industries

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

Topics: Responsible Operations · Supply Chains

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

Inventory for Impact: Scalable Inventory Routing for Clean Cooking Access in Developing Economies

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

Topics: Energy and Climate · Responsible Operations · Supply Chains

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

Supply Chain Intermediation for Clean Cooking Solutions

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

Topics: Energy and Climate · Responsible Operations · Supply Chains

Dynamic Incentives for Improving Smallholder Welfare and Protecting Forests

Fri, 01 Aug 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 · Supply Chains