McGill Desautels Faculty of Management - Mehmet Gumus's Recent Research

A budgeting resource allocation model for capacity expansion

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:07:35 +0000

Authors: Senay Solak, Zhuoxin Li, Mehmet Gumus and Yueran Zhuo

Publication: International Journal of Production Economics
Articles in advance — published online: May 3, 2024
Volume 273, In progress (July 2024)

Managing Channel Profits with Positive Demand Externalities

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:34:10 +0000

Authors: Long Gao, Dawei Jian, Mehmet Gumus and Barry Mishra

Publication: Management Science, Forthcoming 2024.

Inventory Control and Learning for One-Warehouse Multistore system with Censored Demand

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:47:30 +0000

Authors: Recep Yusuf Bekci, Mehmet Gumus and Sentao Miao.

Publication: Operations Research, Forthcoming.
Article in advance, published online: August 2, 2023.

Desautels’ event highlights innovative research and recognizes scholars

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 20 May 2022 19:17:35 +0000

On Friday, May 13, members of the Desautels Faculty of Management gathered to celebrate the innovative and impactful research conducted by its scholars.

Fifteen professors were on hand to deliver two-minute presentations of their most interesting and research.

Before jumping into the presentations, Dean Yolande Chan took the time to highlight this year's Desautels Faculty Scholar awardees. Congratulations to this year's awardees!

Online-Exclusive or Hybrid? Channel Merchandising Strategies for Ship-to-Store Implementation

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:46:52 +0000

Authors: N. Ertekin, Mehmet Gumus, and M.E. Nikoofal

Publication: Management Science, Forthcoming

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An Empirical Analysis of Intra-Firm Product Substitutability in Fashion Retailing

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 15:38:02 +0000

Authors: E. Ergin, Mehmet Gumus, and N. Yang

Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming

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Desautels professors awarded IVADO research funding

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 13:29:58 +0000

Four Desautels professors have been awarded research grants by the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO), a Montreal-based scientific and economic data science hub. The grants will fund three two-year research projects led by Desautels professors as part of IVADO’s Fundamental Research Funding Program.

Value of Audit for Supply Chains with Hidden Action and Information

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 14:14:48 +0000

Authors: Mohammad Nikoofal, Mehmet Gumus

Publication: European Journal of Operational Research, Forthcoming

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Supply Competition under Quality Scores: Motivations, Information Sharing and Credibility

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:42:03 +0000

Authors: Hedayat Alibeiki, Mehmet Gumus

Publication: International Journal of Production Economics, Forthcoming

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Professor Mehmet Gumus awarded 2019 NSERC Discovery Grant

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:47:41 +0000

Mehmet Gumus, Associate Professor in Operations Management was recently awarded a 2019 NSERC Discovery Grant.

Design and Analysis of Data-driven Pricing and Supply Chain Strategies for Online Multi-sided Platforms

Recently, there is growing research focusing on the use of data-driven methods for the management of multi-sided retail platforms that are exposed to increasing degrees of online and offline data streams.

Optimizing Foreclosed Housing Acquisitions in Societal Response to Foreclosures

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:59:47 +0000

Authors: Senay Solak, Armagan Bayram, Mehmet Gumus, Yueran Zhuo

Publication: Operations Research, Forthcoming

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A dramatic increase in U.S. mortgage foreclosures during and after the great economic recession of 2007-2009 had devastating impacts on the society and the economy. In response to such negative impacts, non-profit community development corporations (CDCs) throughout the U.S. utilize various resources, such as grants and lines of credit, in acquiring and redeveloping foreclosed housing units to support neighborhood stabilization and revitalization. Given that the cost of all such acquisitions far exceeds the resources accessible by these non-profit organizations, we identify socially optimal policies for CDCs in dynamically selecting foreclosed properties to target for potential acquisition as they become available over time. We evaluate our analytical results in a numerical study involving a CDC serving a major city in the U.S, and specify social return based thresholds defining selection decisions at different funding levels. We also find that for most foreclosed properties CDCs should not offer more than the asking price, and should typically consider overbidding only when the total available budget is low. Overall, comparisons of optimal policies with historical acquisition data suggest a potential improvement of around 20% in expected total impacts of the acquisitions on nearby property values. Considering a CDC with annual fund availability of $4 million for investment, this corresponds to an estimated additional value of around $280,000 for the society.

Designing Risk‐Adjusted Therapy for Patients with Hypertension

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:17:35 +0000

Authors: Manaf Zargoush, Mehmet Gumus, Vedat Verter, Stella S. Daskalopoulou

Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming

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Limited guidance is available for providing patient‐specific care to hypertensive patients, although this chronic condition is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. To address this issue, we develop an analytical model that takes into account the most relevant risk factors including age, sex, blood pressure, diabetes status, smoking habits, and blood cholesterol. Using the Markov Decision Process framework, we develop a model to maximize expected quality‐adjusted life years, as well as characterize the optimal sequence and combination of antihypertensive medications. Assuming the physician uses the standard medication dose for each drug, and the patient fully adheres to the prescribed treatment regimen, we prove that optimal treatment policies exhibit a threshold structure. Our findings indicate that our recommended thresholds vary by age and other patient characteristics, for example (1) the optimal thresholds for all medication prescription are nonincreasing in age, and (2) the medications need to be prescribed at lower thresholds for males who smoke than for males who have diabetes. The improvements in quality‐adjusted life years associated with our model compare favorably with those obtained by following the British Hypertension Society's guideline, and the gains increase with the severity of risk factors. For instance, in both genders (although at different rates), diabetic patients gain more than non‐diabetic patients. Our sensitivity analysis results indicate that the optimal thresholds decrease if the medications have lower side‐effects and vice versa.

Quality at the Source or at the End? Managing Supplier Quality Under Information Asymmetry

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 13:20:28 +0000

Authors: Mohammad E. Nikoofal, Mehmet Gumus

Publication: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 2018

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Supply Diagnostic Incentives under Endogenous Information Asymmetry

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 14:21:05 +0000

Authors: Mohammad E. Nikoofal, Mehmet Gumus

Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming

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This paper develops a dyadic supply chain model with one buyer who contracts the manufacturing of a new product to a supplier. Due to the lack of experience in manufacturing, the extent of supply risk is unknown to both the buyer and supplier before the time of contract. However, after the contract is accepted, the supplier may invest in a diagnostic test to acquire information about his true reliability, and use this information when deciding on a process improvement effort. Using this setting, we identify both operational and strategic benefits and costs of diagnostic test. Operationally, it helps the supplier to take the first-best level of improvement effort, which would increase efficiency of the total supply chain. Strategically, it enables the buyer to reduce the agency costs associated with implementing process improvement on the supplier. Besides these benefits, diagnostic test increases the degree of information asymmetry along the supply chain. This in turn provides the supplier with proprietary information, whose rent would be demanded from the buyer in equilibrium. Benefit-cost analysis reveals two key factors in determining the value of diagnostic test: (i) degree of endogenous information asymmetry between supply chain firms, and (ii) the relative cost of diagnostic test with respect to process improvement cost. Our results indicate that when both are high, the mere presence of diagnostic test can result in less reliable supply chain. This implies that when incentives are not properly aligned, information asymmetry amplified due to diagnostic test neutralizes all its benefits.

Designing Risk-Adjusted Therapy for Patients with Hypertension

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:14:57 +0000

Authors: Manaf Zargoush, Mehmet Gumus, Vedat Verter, Stella Daskalopoulou

Journal Name: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming

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Hypertension has not been well studied by operations researchers from a clinical decision support perspective. Moreover, little personalized (i.e. patient-centric) guidance is available regarding the number and combination of antihypertensive medications. To fill this gap, we develop a Markov Decision Process (MDP) to characterize the optimal sequence (and combination) of antihypertensive medications under the standard medication dose. Our model is patient-centric as it takes into account a set of relevant patient characteristics such as age, gender, blood pressure level, smoking habits, diabetes status, and cholesterol level. Based on a set of intuitive assumptions, we prove that our model yields a series of structured optimal policies. Having calibrated our model based on real data and medical literature, we analyze these optimal policies and discuss their insights to the real practice. We also compare the benefits, in terms of quality adjusted life expectancy, QALE, obtained from our results with those obtained from British Hypertension Society (BHS) guideline.

Quality at the Source or at the End? Managing Supplier Quality Under Information Asymmetry

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 11 May 2017 16:02:32 +0000

Authors: Mohammad E. Nikoofal, Mehmet Gümüş

Publication: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming

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Supply-Side Story: Risks, Guarantees, Competition, and Information Asymmetry

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:28:25 +0000

Authors: Gümüş, M., Gurnani, H., and Ray, S.

Publication: Management Science

The Impact of Product Substitution and Retail Capacity on the Timing and Depth of Price Promotions: Theory and Evidence

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:27:49 +0000

Authors: Gumus, M., Kaminsky, P., and Mathur, S.

Publication: International Journal of Production Research

Joint procurement and demand-side bidding strategies under price volatility

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 13:33:52 +0000

Authors: Nie, X., Boyacı, T., Gümüş, M., Ray, S., Zhang, D.

Publication: Annals of Operations Research

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United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Strategic Supplier Alliances Under Default Risk

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:51:34 +0000

Authors: Xiao Huang, Tamer Boyaci, Mehmet Gumus, Saibal Ray and Dan Zhang

Publication: Management Science

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On the Value of Terrorist's Private Information in Government's Defensive Resource Allocation Problem

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:05:31 +0000

Authors: Mohammad E. Nikoofal & Mehmet Gumus

Publication: IIE Transactions

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"With or Without Forecast Sharing: Competition and Credibility under Information Asymmetry," Production and Operations Management

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:10:26 +0000

Author: Mehmet Gumus

Publication: Production and Operations Management

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"Returns Policies Between Channel Partners for Durable Products," Marketing Science

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:11:30 +0000

Authors: Gumus, Mehmet; Ray, Saibal; Yin, Shuya

Publication: Marketing Science

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"Shipping Fees or Shipping Free? A Tale of Two Price Partitioning Strategies in Online Retailing," Production and Operations Management

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:58:50 +0000

Authors: Gumus, Mehmet; Li, Shanling; Oh, Wonseok; Ray, Saibal

Publication: Production and Operations Management, July 2013

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Supply-side story: Risks, guarantees, competition, and information asymmetry

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:24:55 +0000

Authors: Gumus, Mehmet; Ray, Saibal; Gurnani, Haresh

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