Bharadwaj Kadiyala
Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Systems
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah.
bkadiyala [at] eccles [dot] utah [dot] edu
1655 Campus Center Dr. SFEBB 7235, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Bharadwaj Kadiyala
Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Systems
David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah.
bkadiyala [at] eccles [dot] utah [dot] edu
1655 Campus Center Dr. SFEBB 7235, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Interests
Content platforms, retail ops, delayed incentives, information-incentive issues
Work in Progress
Content Moderation and Liability. (with W. Hwang)
Under Revision/Working Papers (draft available upon request)
Learning from Consideration Sets: Blackwell Sufficiency and Dynamic Assortments. (with D. Honhon and C. Ulu) [SSRN]
Finalist, 2017 POMS College of SCM Student Paper Competition (under the title "Learning from Clickstream Data in Online Retail")
Invited for presentation at 2025 MSOM Conference
Poisson Disorder Problem with Continuous Control of Costly Observations. (with S. Dayanik)
Published/Accepted Papers
Kadiyala, B., Ö. Özer, and A. Bensoussan (2020). A Mechanism Design Approach to Vendor Managed Inventory. Management Science 66(6):2628-2652. [https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3297] [SSRN]
Kadiyala, B., Ö. Özalp, and A. S. Şimşek (2021). Data-Driven Approaches to Targeting Promotion E-mails: The Case of Delayed Incentives. Production and Operations Management 30(3): 766-782. [https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13316] [SSRN]
Kadiyala, B., R. Phillips, A. S. Şimşek, and G. van Ryzin (2022). Predicting Transaction Outcomes Under Customized Pricing with Discretion: A Structural Estimation Approach. Production and Operations Management 32(6): 1654-1673. [https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13931] [SSRN]
Kadiyala, B., Ö. Özalp, and A. S. Şimşek (2024). Dual Value of Delayed Incentives: An Empirical Investigation of Gift Card Promotions. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26(5):1806-1825. [https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2022.0218] [SSRN]
Kadiyala, B. and D. Shin (2024). Social Learning and Content Quality Under Polarization. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26(6):2237-2255.[https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2022.0533] [SSRN]
First Place, 2023 INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Competition
Invited for presentation at 2023 MSOM Conference
Book Chapter
Kadiyala, B., H. Lee, and Ö. Özer (2023). Information and incentives in inventory management models. In J.-S. Song (Ed.) Research Handbook on Inventory Management, Edward Elgar Publishing. [https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800377103.00020] [SSRN]
David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah
Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Analytical Decision Models I (OSC 6610) and Analytical Decision Models II (OIS 6611)
Statistics and Predictive Analytics (IS 6489)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Spring 2018, Fall 2018
Operations Management
Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas
Fall 2015
Operations Management
Referee
Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, MSOM SiG
Activities
Session chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
Session chair, 15th Utah Winter Operations Conference (2022)
Session chair, POMS Annual Conference (2020, 2019)
Session chair, INFORMS International Conference (2018)
Organizing committee–Academic, MSOM Conference, Dallas (2018)
Judge: INFORMS BOM Best Working Paper Competition (2023), MSOM Student Paper Competition (2018), POMS-HK Student Paper Competition (2018)
Memberships
INFORMS, MSOM, POMS, Phi Kappa Phi