2022 Winter
Sunday, February 6, 11:00 ET - Jiannan Xu (U Maryland Smith)
Bastani, Hamsa. "Predicting with proxies: Transfer learning in high dimension." Management Science 67.5 (2021): 2964-2984..
Sunday, January 9, 11:00 ET - Yuan Ma (U Michigan Ross)
Zhang, Shunyuan, et al. "What makes a good image? Airbnb demand analytics leveraging interpretable image features." Management Science (2021).
2021 Fall
Sunday, November 7, 10:00 ET - Linghui Feng (BU Questrom)
Lanzetti, N., Schiffer, M., Ostrovsky, M., & Pavone, M. (2021). On the interplay between self-driving cars and public transportation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01627.
Sunday, October 10, 10:00 ET - Mengmeng Li (EPFL)
Ashish Kabra, Elena Belavina, Karan Girotra (2020) Bike-Share Systems: Accessibility and Availability. Management Science 66(9):3803-3824
Sang Won Kim, Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Y. Weintraub (2014) Measuring the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural Estimation Approach. Management Science 60(5):1180-1201.
Sunday, September 26, 11:00 ET - Yuan Ma (U Michigan Ross)
Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca (2021) Can Brands Claim Ignorance? Unauthorized Subcontracting in Apparel Supply Chains. Management Science 67(4):2010-2028.
Suvrat Dhanorkar (2019) Environmental Benefits of Internet-Enabled C2C Closed-Loop Supply Chains: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Craigslist. Management Science 65(2):660-680.
Sunday, September 12, 11:00 ET - Jiannan Xu (U Maryland Smith)
Feiler, D., & Tong, J. (2021). From Noise to Bias: Overconfidence in New Product Forecasting. Available at SSRN 3660069.
Sunday, August 29, 11:00 ET - Yuan Ma (U Michigan Ross)
Stefan Wager & Susan Athey (2018) Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 113:523, 1228-1242, DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2017.1319839
Wang, G., Li, J., & Hopp, W. J. (2021). An Instrumental Variable Forest Approach for Detecting Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Observational Studies. Management Science.
2021 Winter
Sunday, February 7, 11:00 ET - Yudi Huang (Northwestern U Kellogg)
Bertsimas, D., Delarue, A., Eger, W., Hanlon, J., & Martin, S. (2020). Bus routing optimization helps Boston public schools design better policies. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, 50(1), 37-49.
Sunday, January 31, 11:00 ET - Mengmeng Li (EPFL)
Gupta, V. (2019). Near-optimal Bayesian ambiguity sets for distributionally robust optimization. Management Science, 65(9), 4242-4260.
Sunday, January 24, 11:00 ET - Meiling Wu (UCI Paul Merage)
Feldman, J., Zhang, D., Liu, X., & Zhang, N. (2018). Customer choice models versus machine learning: Finding optimal product displays on Alibaba. Available at SSRN 3232059.
Sunday, January 17, 11:00 ET - Yuan Ma (U Michigan Ross)
Song, H., Tucker, A. L., Graue, R., Moravick, S., & Yang, J. J. (2020). Capacity pooling in hospitals: The hidden consequences of off-service placement. Management Science, 66(9), 3825-3842.
Sunday, January 10, 11:00 ET - Jiannan Xu (U Maryland Smith)
Alev, I., Agrawal, V. V., & Atasu, A. (2020). Extended producer responsibility for durable products. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 22(2), 364-382.
2020 Fall
Sunday, November 8, 11:00 ET - Jiannan Xu (U Maryland Smith)
Xu, Y., Zhu, L., & Pinedo, M. (2017). Operational Risk Management: Preventive vs. Corrective Control.
Sunday, November 8, 11:00 ET - Yuan Ma (U Michigan Ross)
Shi, P., Helm, J., Deglise-Hawkinson, J., & Pan, J. (2019). Timing it right: Balancing inpatient congestion versus readmission risk at discharge. Available at SSRN 3202975.
Sunday, October 25, 11:00 ET - Jiannan Xu (U Maryland Smith)
Huang, Y., Vir Singh, P., & Srinivasan, K. (2014). Crowdsourcing new product ideas under consumer learning. Management Science, 60(9), 2138-2159.
Sunday, October 18, 11:00 ET - Jiannan Xu (U Maryland Smith)
Cui, Y., Orhun, A. Y., & Duenyas, I. (2019). How price dispersion changes when upgrades are introduced: Theory and empirical evidence from the airline industry. Management Science, 65(8), 3835-3852.
Sunday, October 11, 11:00 ET - Mengmeng Li (EPFL)
Lee, E., Lavieri, M. S., & Volk, M. (2019). Optimal screening for hepatocellular carcinoma: A restless bandit model. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 21(1), 198-212
Sunday, October 4, 11:00 ET - Yuan Ma (U Michigan Ross)
Berry Jaeker, J. A., & Tucker, A. L. (2017). Past the point of speeding up: The negative effects of workload saturation on efficiency and patient severity. Management Science, 63(4), 1042-1062.
Sunday, September 27, 11:00 ET - Jiannan Xu (U Maryland Smith)
Jiang, Z., Huang, Y., & Beil, D. R. (2020). The role of problem specification in crowdsourcing contests for design problems: A theoretical and empirical analysis. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Sunday, September 10, 11:00 ET - Jiannan Xu (U Maryland Smith)
Jain, N., Girotra, K., & Netessine, S. (2014). Managing global sourcing: Inventory performance. Management Science, 60(5), 1202-1222