Gérard P. Cachon Faculty Profile

Gérard P. Cachon
The Fred Sullivan Professor; Professor of Operations and Information Management

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1995; MS, University of Pennsylvania, 1991; BAS, University of Pennsylvania, 1989; BS, University of Pennsylvania, 1989

Research Areas
Supply chain management; incentives in operations management; assortment planning

Recent Consulting
4R Systems, Ahold Corporation, GPlay Inc, Medtronic, O'Neill

Current Projects
Coordination issues in supply chain management, forecasting for inventory and production planning, assortment planning

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2000-present (named the Fred Sullivan Professor, 2005; Kraft Foods Term Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management, 2000-2001). Previous appointment: Duke University

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Miller-Sherrerd core teaching award, 2004; Wharton Graduate Association's "Tough, but I will thank you in 5 years" teaching award, 2002; Fuqua School of Business' Daimler-Chrysler Teaching Award for Innovation and Excellence in an Elective Course, 1999

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management; President, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society of INFORMS; Departmental Editor, Management Science, 2005-2006; Area Editor, Management Science, 2003-2005; Associate Editor, Management Science, 1999-2005; Associate Editor, Operations Research, 2003-2005; Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics, 2003-2005; Editorial Board, Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management; Chair of the 2003 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society’s Student Paper Competition.

Representative Publications
(with F. Zhang)
"Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry." Management Science 52.6 (2006).

(with M. Lariviere)
”Supply Chain Coordination with Revenue Sharing: Strengths and Limitations. Management Science 51.1 (2005).

"The Allocation of Inventory Risk in a Supply Chain: Push, Pull and Advance-Purchase Discount Contracts." Management Science 50.2 (2004).

(with P Harker)
"Competition and Outsourcing with Scale Economies." Management Science 48(10). (2002).

(with M. Lariviere)
"Turning the Supply Chain into a Revenue Chain." Harvard Business Review (March 2001).

(with M. Lariviere)
"Contracting to Assure Supply: How to Share Demand Forecasts in a Supply Chain." Management Science 47.5 (2001).

(with M. Fisher)
"Supply Chain Inventory Management and the Value of Shared Information." Management Science 46.8 (2000).

(with P. Zipkin)
"Competitive and Cooperative Inventory Policies in a Two-Stage Supply Chain." Management Science 45 (1999).