OPIM & Decision Processes

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Faculty Perspective

Noah Gans

Professor of Operations & Information Management

Our program embodies the very best the school has to offer. In additional to superb training in core disciplines, students have the ability to obtain with world-class training in statistics, microeconomics, marketing, and behavioral sciences.

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Faculty and Research

Faculty research applies analytic and empirical studies to important problems facing the private and public sectors, including: supply chain management; product development; service operations; e-business; decision support systems; information-based strategy; systems development and implementation; risk and environmental management; negotiations; and individual and group decision making.

Representative Publications

Names in bold type indicate authors who were Wharton doctoral students at the time of publication.

Gérard Cachon, Gurhan Kok (2010), Competing manufacturers in a retail supply chain: on contractual form and coordination, Management Science.

Gérard Cachon, Marcelo Olivares (2010), Drivers of finished goods inventory in the U.S. automobile industry, Management Science.

Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch, and Karl Ulrich (2010), Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea, Management Science.

Michael Haselhuhn, Maurice Schweitzer, and Alison Wood (2010), How implicit beliefs influence trust recovery, Psychological Science.

Sang-Hyun Kim, Morris Cohen, Serguei Netessine, and Senthil Veeraraghavan (2010), Contracting for Infrequent Restoration and Recovery of Mission-Critical Systems, forthcoming in Management Science.

Z. Justin Ren, Morris A. Cohen, Teck Ho, and Christian Terwiesch (2010), Information Sharing In A Long Term Supply Chain Relationship: The Role of Customer Review Strategy, Operations Research.

Nitin Bakshi and Noah Gans (2009), Securing the Containerized Supply Chain: An Economic Analysis of C-TPAT, Management Science.

Gérard Cachon and Robert Swinney (2009), Purchasing, Pricing and Quick Response in the Presence of Strategic Consumers, Management Science.

Diwas KC and Christian Terwiesch (2009), Impact of Work-load on Productivity: An Econometric Study of Healthcare Services, Management Science.

Marcelo Olivares, Gérard Cachon (2009), Competing Retailers and Inventory: An Empirical Investigation of General Motors' Dealerships in Isolated U.S. Markets., Management Science.

Gérard Cachon, Christian Terwiesch, Yi Xu (2008), On the Effects of Consumer Search and Market Entry in a Multi-product Competitive Market, Marketing Science.

Xinxin Li, and Lorin Hitt (2008), Self-Selection and Information Role of Online Product Reviews Li, Information Systems Research.

Marcelo Olivares, Christian Terwiesch, and Lydia Cassorla (2008), Structural Estimation of the Newsvendor Model: An Application to Reserving Operating Room Time, Management Science.

Christian Terwiesch, Yi Xu (2008), Innovation Contests, Open Innovation, and Multi-agent Problem Solving, Management Science.

Shin-Yi Wu, Lorin Hitt, Pei-Yu Chen, G. Anandalingam (2008), Customized Bundle Pricing for Information Goods: A Non-Linear Mixed Integer Programming Approach, Management Science.

Krishnan Anand and Karan Girotra (2007), The Strategic Perils of Delayed Differentiation, Management Science.

Michael Braun, Peter S. Fader, Eric T. Bradlow, Howard Kunreuther (2006). Modeling the 'Pseudodeductible' in Homeowner's Insurance, Management Science.

Gérard Cachon and Gurhan Kok (2007). How to (and not to) estimate the salvage value in the newsvendor model. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Gérard Cachon, Taylor Randall, Glenn Schmidt (2007), In search of the bullwhip effect, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Gérard Cachon and Fuqiang Zhang (2007). Obtaining fast delivery in a queuing system via performance-based allocation of demand, Management Science.

Morris A. Cohen, Sang-Hyun Kim, Serguei Netessine (2007), Performance Contracting in After-Sales Service Supply Chains, Management Science.

Daniel Fleder and Kartik Hosanagar, (2007), On the impact of recommender systems on sales diversity, Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce.

Noah Gans, George Knox and Rachel T.A. Croson (2007), Simple Models of Discrete Choice and Their Performance in Bandit Experiments. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch, Karl Ulrich (2007), Valuing R&D Projects in a Portfolio: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry, Management Science.

Manu Goyal and Serguei Netessine (2007). Strategic technology choice and capacity investment under demand uncertainty, Management Science.

Lorin Hitt and Sonny Tambe (2007) Broadband Adoption and Content Consumption, Information Economics and Policy.

Sang-Hyun Kim, Morris Cohen, and Serguei Netessine (2007), Performance Contracting in After-Sales Service Supply Chains, Management Science.

Robert Swinney and Serguei Netessine (2007), Long-term contracts under the threat of supplier default, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Taylor Randall, Christian Terwiesch, and Karl Ulrich (2007), User Design of Customized Products, Marketing Science.