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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"Operations Management"”.
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Sustainability in Disaster Operations Management and Planning: An Operations Management Perspective
Advancing the state of disaster operations planning has significant implications given the devastating impress of disasters. Operations management techniques have in the past been shown to advance disaster-planning efforts; in particular, much progress can be noted in its application in the …
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Essays in operations management
… urgent order to the cost embedded in the future operations. Finally, we model the mixed integer program to support the company's capacity plan. We conclude with in sights provided to the firm and managerial insights for optimal customer order portfolios.</p> <p>In the third essay, we focus on the …
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Essays on Service Operations Management
This dissertation studies three different problems service firms can face. The first chapter looks at the optimal way to price reservations and services when customers make reservations in advance, while they are uncertain about the future value of service, to avoid waiting on the day of service. …
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Essays in Empirical Operations Management
… on the empirical studies in two streams of operations management - supply chains and marketplaces. The first and third chapters are joint work with Professor Vishal Gaur. The second chapter is joint with Prof. Fanyin Zheng. In chapter 1, we use firm-level financial data from S&P's Compustat …
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Social policy and operations management
… and policy analysis by using concepts from operations management to examine production and distribution of goods and services for disadvantaged groups. Building on the introduction, chapter two tells a cautionary tale, investigating how scholars and decision makers used operations management …
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Three essays in operations management
… applies optimization theory to three problems in operations management. In the first part of the thesis, we investigate the impact of inventory control on the availability of drugs to patients at public health facilities in Zambia. We present consistent empirical data and simulation results …
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Operations management perspectives on expert services
… and growing role in the developed economies. In operations management (OM), the term “Professional Services” is frequently used to refer to these offerings. The literature on Expert Services proposes that these services are different from other types of services and require a different OM …
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Two essays in behavioral operations management
PAPER 1 (knapsack problem): Selecting the most valuable projects given a finite budget constraint is a recurring decision challenge in all organizations. The optimization literature has long recognized the mathematical complexities of this knapsack problem. However, these complexities along with …
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Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics in Operations Management
… and (iii) their high-impact applications in operations management. On the predictive side, this thesis tackles the problems of interpretability and predictive power within the context of tree ensembles. The first chapter introduces the Extended Sampled Trees (XSTrees) method, a novel tree …
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Data-Driven Decision Making in Operations Management
… the length to which we can push various business operations with new technologies, in our theoretical understanding and practical performance alike. Towards this goal, this thesis develops data-driven decision-making methods for a selection of challenging emerging problems in supply chain and …
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Nonparametric choice modeling : applications to operations management
… First, we consider a central decision problem in operations management (OM): find an assortment of products that maximizes the revenues subject to a capacity constraint on the size of the assortment. Solving this problem requires two components: (a) predicting revenues for assortments and (b) …
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Optimal Pricing and Capacity Planning in Operations Management
… the pricing and capacity planning problems in operations management from the following three aspects. We first study a capacity planning and short-term demand management problem faced by firms with industrial customers that are insensitive to price incentives when placing orders. Industrial …
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Behaviorally-Informed Discrete Choice Models in Operations Management
This thesis advances choice-based Revenue Management by integrating behavioral realism into analytical models of pricing and assortment optimization. Traditional discrete choice models (DCMs) simplify customer behavior by assuming that greater variety always increases purchase likelihood, that …
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Stochastic Dynamic Optimization and Games in Operations Management
… dynamic optimization models and game models in operations management.</p><p>Markov decision processes (MDPs) and sequential games are good models of many real sequential decision processes. However, in diverse applications in operations research and economics, the state of the MDP is a vector …
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Supplier inventory and operations management process improvement methodology
… scope of the project was to evaluate the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes of two identified suppliers. While the primary goal of the project was to develop a robust BCP Supplier S&OP process, the performance improvements were generated from Inventory and Operations Management tool …
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Dynamic learning and optimization for operations management problems
… learning and decision making have emerged in operations management. The learning-and-optimizing approaches can be used when the decision maker is faced with incomplete information in a dynamic environment. We first consider a network revenue management problem where a retailer aims to maximize …
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Comparative Statics Analysis of Some Operations Management Problems
… approach for the comparative statics analysis of operations management problems on the capacity investment decision and the influenza (flu) vaccine composition decision. Our approach involves exploiting the properties of the underlying mathematical models, and linking those properties to the …
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Selection of operations management methodologies in disparate cost environments
… Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1995.
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Data-driven optimization and analytics for operations management applications
… study data-driven decision making in operation management contexts, with a focus on both theoretical and practical aspects. The first part of the thesis analyzes the well-known newsvendor model but under the assumption that, even though demand is stochastic, its probability distribution is not …
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Pricing, Variety, and Inventory Decisions in Retail Operations Management
… is concerned with decision making in retail operations management. Specifically, we focus on pricing, variety, and inventory decisions, which are at the interface of the marketing and operations functions of a retail firm. We consider two problems that relate to two major types of retail …
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