Juan Camilo Serpa

Associate Professor - McGill University 

William Dawson Scholar (2019-2024)

Papers

1.  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)

2. Inventory in Times of War - with Andres Jola 

1. 1. 1. 1. • Management Science 2021 67(10): 5969-6627

3. Oversight and Efficiency in Public Projects: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis - with Eduard Calvo & Ruomeng Cui

1. 1. 1. 1. • Management Science 2019, 65(12): 5449-5956.

4.  Supply Chain Proximity and Product Quality - with Robert Bray & Ahmet Colak

1. 1. 1. 1. • Management Science 2019, 65(9): 4079-4099.

5. The Impact of Supply Chains on Firm-Level Productivity - with Harish Krishnan

1. 1. 1. 1. • Management Science 2018, 64(2), pp. 511–532 

            • Selected as a featured article of the Feb 2018 issue 

6. The Strategic Role of Business Insurance - with Harish Krishnan 

1. 1. 1. 1. • Management Science 2017, 63(2) pp. 384-404

            • 1st place, 2015 POMS student paper competition

7. Policy Incentives for Dangerous (But Necessary) Operations - with Harish Krishnan

1. 1. 1. 1. • Production and Operations Management 2016, 25(10) pp. 1778--1798

8. When Platforms Go Public, Standards Drop — with Maxime Cohen

   1. 1. • • Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming

           • Accepted at MSOM SIG, 2020

9.  Project Networks and Reallocation Externalities - with Vibhuti Dhingra and Harish Krishnan.

   1. 1. • • 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)