Ziv Katalan

Research Areas

Design and analysis of production and service systems; scheduling and allocation of resources; product variety and its impact on manufacturing performance; computational finance and financial and operational risk management

Representative Publications

(with M.A. Cohen, N. Gans and S.V. Savin)
"Capacity Management in Rental Businesses with Two Customer Bases." Operations Research, Vol. 53, pp 617-631, (2005).

(with A. Federgruen)
"The Impact of Adding a Make-to-Order Product Line to a Make-to-Stock Production System." Management Science Vol. 45, pp. 980-994 (1999).

(with A. Federgruen)
"The Impact of Setup Times on the Performance of Multi-Class Service and Production Systems." Operations Research Vol. 44, pp. 989-1001 (1996).

(with A. Federgruen)
"Approximating Queue Size and Waiting Time Distributions in General Polling Systems." Queueing Systems, Vol. 18, pp. 353 - 386, (1994).

Education

PhD, Columbia University, 1995; M.Sc., Tel Aviv University, 1989; B.Sc, Tel Aviv University, 1987

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 1994-present. University of Pennsylvania: 2002-2007 (Co-Director, Executive Master’s in Technology Management)

Other Positions

Wharton MBA Program for Executives Elective Teaching Award, Class of 2006; WEMBA Elective Teaching Award,Class of 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003; MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Teaching Award, Spring 1997, Spring 1999, Spring 2001