Juan Camilo Serpa
Associate Professor - McGill University
William Dawson Scholar (2019-2024)
Papers
Managing the Airfare Price Path: Insights from a Field Experiment - with Maxime Cohen and Alexandre Jacquillat
Management Science 2022 (Forthcoming)
Best technical Paper, AGIFORS Annual Symposium (2018)
Inventory in Times of War - with Andres Jola
Management Science 2021 67(10): 5969-6627
Oversight and Efficiency in Public Projects: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis - with Eduard Calvo & Ruomeng Cui
Management Science 2019, 65(12): 5449-5956.
Supply Chain Proximity and Product Quality - with Robert Bray & Ahmet Colak
Management Science 2019, 65(9): 4079-4099.
The Impact of Supply Chains on Firm-Level Productivity - with Harish Krishnan
Management Science 2018, 64(2), pp. 511–532
Selected as a featured article of the Feb 2018 issue
The Strategic Role of Business Insurance - with Harish Krishnan
Management Science 2017, 63(2) pp. 384-404
1st place, 2015 POMS student paper competition
Policy Incentives for Dangerous (But Necessary) Operations - with Harish Krishnan
Production and Operations Management 2016, 25(10) pp. 1778--1798
When Platforms Go Public, Standards Drop — with Maxime Cohen
Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming
Accepted at MSOM SIG, 2020
Project Networks and Reallocation Externalities - with Vibhuti Dhingra and Harish Krishnan.
Management Science, Forthcoming
Accepted at MSOM SIG, 2022
Research Grants
2023-25. SSHRC Insight Development Grant - $62,500
Role: Principal (and sole) Investigator
2023-25. SSHRC Insight Development Grant - $67,500
Role: co-investigator (principal investigator: Prof. Emmanuelle Vaast)
2022. Desautels Internal Research Grant - $5,000
Role: Principal (and sole) Investigator
2022. SSHRC Internal Development Grant - $7,000
2022-2027. NSERC Discovery Grant - $132,600
Role: Principal (and sole) Investigator
2022. NSERC Early Career Supplement - $12,500
Role: Principal (and sole) Investigator
2019-2024. William Dawson Scholar - $125,000
2019-2021. SSHRC Insight Development Grant - $40,061
2019-2021. SSHRC New Frontiers Grant: AI-Tribunal for Small Claims: Building an Intelligent Dispute Resolution System - $244,562
Role: Co-applicant (with Samuel Dahan, Maxime Cohen, Xiaodan Zhu, Yuri Levin, Jonathan Touboul)
2020-2021. Covid-19 Rapid Response Grant: Quebec Data Central for Impact of COVID-19 on Society and Business and for a Post-Pandemic World - 18,993
Role: Principal Applicant
2017-2020. Fonds du Recherche du Québec, Societé et Culture -- Estimation de la relation entre la qualité du produit et la proximité de la chaîne d'approvisionnement - $57,150
Role: Principal (and Sole) investigator.
2019 S.HRC Internal Development Grant - $6,000
Role: Principal (and Sole) investigator.
2016-2019. McGill Startup Grant - $45,000
Seminars
2022. Darden - U. Virginia (March); HEC Montreal (May)
2021. Wharton School of Business (January); Ohio State University (February)
2019. University of British Columbia (February); ESMT Berlin (March); University of Utah (March); Cornell University (April).
2018. London Business School (January).
2017. New York University (March); Duke University (March).
2016. Northwestern University (June); HEC Montreal (October).
2015. Washington University in St. Louis (January); University of Michigan (January); Duke University (January); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (January); Indiana University (January); Queen's University (January); University of Western Ontario (January); McGill University (December).
2014. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (December); IESE School of Business (December); Ryerson University (December).
Research Awards
2019 William Dawson Scholar Chair
2015 1st place, 2015 POMS student paper competition
2014 Codère Ph.D Dissertation Award (top Ph.D dissertation in Canada) - Supply Chain Management Association.
Teaching Awards
2022 The Desautels Distinguished Teaching Award, graduate level - Top teaching award at McGill's Business school.
2022 The Principal prize for excellence in teaching McGill - Top teaching award at all of McGill (Among 1400 faculty members)
2019 Desautels Top Elective Teaching Award - McGill University.
2017 World's Top 40 Undergraduate Professors - Poets and Quants.
2017 The Desautels Distinguished Teaching Award, Undergraduate level - Top teaching award at McGill's Business school.
2015 Killam Teaching Award - University of British Columbia
2013 Paul Chwelos Memorial Teaching Award - University of British Columbia
Teaching Evaluations (out of 5.0)
Epidemiology analytics (MMA)
2019: Rating = 5.0
Multivariate statistics and data analytics (MMA)
2019: Rating = 4.9
2018: Rating = 4.8
Statistical Foundations of Data Analytics (Undergrad)
2020: Ratings = 4.9
2019: Ratings = 4.9 and 5.0
2018: Ratings = 4.9 and 5.0
2017: Rating = 5.0
Advanced topics in Management Science (MBA)
2020: Rating=4.9
2019: Rating = 4.9
2018: Rating = 4.7
Introductory Business Statistics - 2 sections (Undergrad)
2017: Ratings = 4.9 and 4.7
2016: Ratings = 4.9 and 4.8
Advising
2018 Andres Jola-Sanchez (Indiana University)
Secondary advisor
Placement: Texas A&M
2017 Ahmet Colak (Northwestern University)
Secondary advisor
Placement: Clemson University
Past Positions
Assistant professor: McGill University (Fall 2016-Summer 2019)
Visiting professor: IESE Business Schoool, Barcelona (Winter 2016; Winter 2017; Winter 2018)
Visiting professor: Kellogg School of Management. Northwestern University (Summer 2016)
Assistant Professor: Kelley School of Business. Indiana University (Fall 2015 - Summer 2016)