McGill Food Analytics Club presents Lecture & Hackathon
The McGill Food Analytics Club (McGill FAC) is a student-driven data analytics club that focuses on food. As the world is heading towards a massive food crisis the next decade, there is an urgent need to come up with solutions. Inspired and supported by Desautels Professor Juan Camilo Serpa, the club members want to contribute to solving this food crisis with data analytics.
Hospital capacity management based on the queueing theory
Authors: Otavio Bittencourt, Vedat Verter, Morty Yalovsky
Publication: International Journal of Productivity and Performance
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Juan Serpa's article featured in Management Science
Professor Juan Serpa's paper "The Impact of Supply Chains on Firm-Level Productivity," together with Harish Krishnan was selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science one of the three Featured Articles for the February 2018 issue.
Management Science?is a scholarly journal that publishes scientific research on the practice of management. Within our scope are all aspects of management related to strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, information technology, and organizations as well as all functional areas of business, such as accounting, finance, marketing, and operations. We include studies on organizational, managerial, and individual decision making, from both normative and descriptive perspectives.
Optimal markdown pricing for holiday basket with customer valuation
Authors: Hijun Wang, Shanling Li and Jianwen Luo?
Publication: International Journal of Production Research, Forthcoming
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Brand Positioning and Consumer Taste Information
Authors: Arcan Nalca, Tamer Boyaci and Saibal Ray
Publication: European Journal of Operational Research, Forthcoming
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An integrated framework for inventory management and transportation of refined petroleum products: Pipeline or marine?
Authors: Atiq W. Siddiqui, Manish R. Verma and Vedat Verter
Publication: Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 55, 2018
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The Power of Diversity: Data-Driven Robust Predictive Control for Energy-Efficient Buildings and Districts
Authors:?Georgios Darivianakis, Angelos Georghiou, Roy S. Smith, John Lygeros?
Publication:?IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology?(Volume: PP,?Issue: 99)
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Bensadoun School of Retail Management highlighted among Quebec’s most innovative business programming
As business schools adapt their programs to address the grand challenges of our time, McGill’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management stands out as an initiative that will respond to the needs of a rapidly changing retail industry.
Designing distribution systems with reverse flows
Authors:?Ayse Cilaci?Tombus? Necati Aras, Vedat Verter
Publication: Journal of Remanufacturing, Vol. 7, No. 2-3, December 2017
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The Strategic Role of Business Insurance
Authors: Juan Serpa and Harish S. Krishnan
Publication: Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 2, February 2017
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The use of business insurance has been traditionally studied in a single-firm setting, but in reality preventing operational accidents involves the (unobservable) efforts of multiple firms. We show that, in a multifirm setting, insurance can be used strategically as a commitment mechanism to prevent excessive free riding by other firms. In the presence of wealth imbalances, contracts alone leave wealth-constrained firms with inefficiently low incentives to exert effort (because of limited liability) and firms with sufficient wealth with excessive incentives. Insurance allows the latter to credibly commit to lower effort, thereby mitigating the incentives of the wealth-constrained firms to free ride. This finding shows that insurance can improve the efficiency of risk management efforts by decreasing free-riding problems.
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The Impact of Supply Chains on Firm-Level Productivity
Authors: Juan Serpa and Harish S. Krishnan
Publication: Management Science, Vol. 64, No. 2, February 2018
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Firms in a vertical relationship are likely to affect each other’s productivity. Exactly how does productivity spill over across this type of relationship (i.e., through which mechanisms)? Additionally, how does the relative importance of these mechanisms depend on the structure of the supply chain?
To answer these questions, we decompose the channels of upstream productivity spillovers—from customers to suppliers—by developing a structural econometric model on a sample of approximately 22,500 supply chain dyads.
We find that the “endogenous channel” (i.e., the effect of the customer’s own productivity on the supplier’s productivity) is by far the most important source of spillovers. This is especially true if (i) the supplier has a concentrated customer base, (ii) the supplier and the customer have similar operational characteristics, and (iii) the relationship has medium maturity.
In the converse scenarios, we find, it is more important to have a partner with a portfolio of favorable “contextual” characteristics (high inventory turnover, financial liquidity, and asset turnover) than to have a productive partner.
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Saibal Ray on the potential benefits and costs if Amazon chooses Montreal
As Amazon hunts for a location for its second North American headquarters, Canada’s major cities are building their cases.
In a short interview with the McGill Media team, Desautels Professor Saibal Ray talks about the benefits that a Montreal Amazon office would bring in terms of jobs and indirect benefits to the city’s academic and research sectors.
Desautels’ Juan Serpa included on Poets & Quants’s top 40 Undergrad profs list
Poets & Quants has released its inaugural 2017 Top Undergraduate Business Professors list, and on it is Desautels’ own Juan Camilo Serpa, Assistant Professor of Operations Management.
Desautels professor on cultural sensitivity and western managers working in China
A piece at CNBM.net.cn quotes Desautels Professor Saibal Ray on how foreign workers in China can work smoothly with their Chinese counterparts.?
Integrated fleet mix and routing decision for hazmat transportation: A developing country perspective
Authors: Anand Kumar, Debjit Roy, Vedat Verter and Dheeraj Sharma
Publication: European Journal of Operational Research, Vol 264, No. 1, January 2018
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