The Department of Operations & Information Systems understands it’s one thing to create complex information systems and processes, and it’s another to know how to manage them in a way that makes a business more efficient, effective and competitive. Employees with these skills are considered invaluable assets to any company. That’s why demand for employees trained in Information Systems (IS) and Operations Management (OM) is skyrocketing, and why positions in these fields are some of America’s best paying jobs.
Degrees in Operations & Information Systems
Respected as some of the best in their field, Eccles School faculty are skilled teachers, innovative researchers and global thought leaders who are shaping the strategic pioneers of the future and transforming business practices worldwide.

Department of Operations & Information Systems Faculty
Respected as some of the best in their field, Eccles School faculty are skilled teachers, innovative researchers and global thought leaders who are shaping the strategic pioneers of the future and transforming business practices worldwide.
OIS Conferences
The Department of Operations and Information Systems at the David Eccles School of Business hosts or co-hosts three winter conferences: the Utah Winter Operations Conference, the Product/Service Innovation (PSI) Conference and the Winter Conference on Business Analytics. The three are annual conferences that take place during the early months of each calendar year. The conferences include research paper presentations by top researchers from across the world in the disciplines of operations management, information systems, product and service innovation and the interface between marketing and operations. In most years, they take place at or near one of Utah’s fabulous ski resorts and all conferences feature winter activities such as downhill skiing, cross-country skiing and snow-shoeing.
OSC & IS Speaker Series
Date | Speaker | University | Time / Location | Title |
Feb. 8, 2019 | Professor Raghav Rao | University of Texas – San Antonio | 10:30 a.m – Noon | SFEBB 7122 | TBD |
March 1, 2019 | Professor Juan Serpa | McGill University | 10:30 a.m. – Noon SFEBB 7122 |
TBD |
March 29, 2019 | Professor Wenqiang Xiao | NYU | 10:30 a.m – Noon SFEBB 7112 | TBD |
April 5, 2019 | Professor Beibei Li | Carnegie Mellon University | 10:30 a.m. – Noon SFEBB |
TBD |
April 5, 2019 | Professor Nur Sunar | UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School | 10:30 a.m. – Noon SFEBB 7122 |
TBD |
April 26, 2019 | Professor Xue Bai | Carnegie Mellon University | 10:30 a.m. – Noon SFEBB 7122 |
TBD |
April 26, 2019 | Professor Roman Kapuscinski | University of Michigan | 10:30 a.m. – Noon SFEBB 7112 |
TBD |
Date | Speaker | University | Time / Location | Title |
Aug. 31 | Professor Soo-Haeng Cho | Carnegie Mellon University | 11 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. | SFEBB 7122 | A Queueing Model and Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles on Highways |
Sept. 13 | Professor Jan Van Mieghem | Northwestern | 1- 2:20 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
TBD |
Sept. 21 | Professor Annabelle Feng | Purdue | 1 – 2:20 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
TBD |
Sept. 28 | Professor Vijay Mookerjee | UT Dallas | 1 – 2:20 p.m. SFEBB 7122 | TBD |
Oct. 5 | Professor Ozan Candogan | University of Chicago Booth School of Business | 1 – 2:20 p.m. SFEBB 7112 |
TBD |
Oct. 26 | Professor Laurens Debo | Dartmouth | 1 – 2:20 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
TBD |
Date | Speaker | University | Time / Location | Title |
January 19 | Pei-yu Chen | Arizona State University | 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
Early Birds and Late Owls in Online Shopping? An Empirical Investigation of Individual Shopping Temporal Orientation and Its Effects |
January 26 | Leon Zhu | USC | 1- 2:20 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
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February 2 | Wendy Duan | George Washington University | 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
It Is More Than the Last Click: Investigating the Impact of Online Referral Channels on E-commerce Website Performance |
February 19 | Kostas Bimpikis | Stanford University (GSB) | TBD — SFEBB 7175 | Spatial Pricing in Ride-Sharing Networks |
March 2 | Dr. Atalay Atasu, Associate Professor, Operations Management | Georgia Tech – Scheller College of Business | 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. SFEBB 7112 |
Leasing, Modularity, and the Circular Economy |
March 9 | Raghu Santanam | Arizona State University | 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. SFEBB 7112 |
Consumer Search, Producer Entry, and Product Variety: Theory and Evidence from a Digital Product Market |
March 30 | Paul Pavlou, Sr. Associate Dean and Professor of IT & Strategy | Temple University | 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. SFEBB 7112 |
Do Electronic Medical Record Systems Inflate Medicare Reimbursements? |
March 30 | Haresh Gurnani | 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
Demonstrations and Price Competition in New Product Release | |
April 13 | Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Associate Professor | Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park | 10:30 a.m. SFEBB 7122 |
How Digital Word-of-Mouth Affects Consumer Decision Making: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
April 27 | DJ Wu, Professor in Management Information Technology Management | Scheller College of Business, GA Institute of Technology | 10:30 – 11:50 a.m. SFEBB 7122 |
Platform Competition under Network Effects: Piggybacking and Optimal Subsidization |
April 27 | Brian Butler, Professor & Senior Associate Dean | University of Maryland College of Information Studies | 1 – 2:30 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
An Attraction–Selection–Attrition Theory of Online Community Size and Resilience |
May 23 | Terry Taylor, Chaired Professor of Business Adminstration | Haas Operations & Information Technology Management Groupp, University of California at Berkeley | 2:30 -4:00 p.m. SFEBB 7122 |
Date | Speaker | University | Time / Location | Title |
October 7 | Ozge Sahin, Assist Professor | Johns Hopkins Carey Business School | 10:30 a.m. SFEBB 7110 |
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October 12 | Christopher Forman, Professor | Cornell | 10:30 a.m. SFEBB 7122 |
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October 28 | Huigang Liang, Associate Professor | East Caroline University | 10:30 a.m. SFEBB 7122 |
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November 4 | Heshan Sun, Associate Professor | Clemson University | 10:30 a.m. SFEBB 5155 |
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November 18 | Hemant Bhargava, Professor | UC Davis, Graduate School of Management | 10:30 a.m. SFEBB 7122 |
Selling Platforms |
February 6 | Kamalini Ramdas | London Business School | ||
February 8 | Nicos Savva | London Business School | 10:00-11:50 a.m. SFEBB 7175 |
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February 10 | Dr. Anjana Susarla, Professor |
Michigan State University | 1:30-3:00 p.m. SFEBB 3106 |
Social Capital and Contract Design in Buyer-Supplier Networks |
February 13 | Jeremy Hutchinson-Krupat | Darden UVA | 10:00-11:50 a.m. SFEBB 7172 |
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February 17 | Nils Rudi | INSEAD | 10:00-11:50 a.m. SFEBB 7122 |
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March 3 | Georgia Perakis | MIT Sloan School of Management | 10:00-11:50 a.m. SFEBB 7112 |
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March 10 | Terrence August | University of California, San Diego |
11:30 am – 1:00 p.m. SFEBB 5155 |
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March 14 | Subodha Kumar | Texas A & M | 10:00-11:50 a.m. SFEBB 5155 |
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March 31 | Amit Mehra, Associate Professor | University of Texas at Dallas | 10:30-12:00 p.m. SFEBB 3106 |
Remedying Education with Personalized Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India |
March 31 | Ozalp Ozer | Univ of Texas at Dallas | 1:00-3:00 p.m. SFEBB 3106 |
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April 7 | Felipe Caro | UCLA – Anderson School of Management | 10:00-11:50 a.m. SFEBB 5155 |
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April 14 | Jason Thatcher | Texas A & M | 1:30-3:00 p.m. SFEBB 3160 |
Social Media and New Employee Selection: How does new technology change an old game? |
April 21 | Greys Sosic | USC Marshall School of Business | 10:00-11:50 a.m. SFEBB 7122 |
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April 28 | Fuqiang Zhang | Olin Business School | 10:00-11:50 a.m. SFEBB 7122 |
Date | Speaker | Title | Focus |
April 26, 2016 | Balaji Padmanabhan (USF) | The Effects of Time Pressure and Cost Transparency on Recommender Systems for Healthcare Cost Reduction | IS |
Apr 22, 2016 | Xuanming Su | Omni-channel Retail Operations with Buy-Online and Pickup-in-Store | OS |
Apr 01, 2016 | Yong-Pin Zhou | Inventory Fulfillment Strategies for an Omni-Channel Retailer | OS |
February 19, 2016 | Shawndra Hill (Microsoft) | TV’s Dirty Little Secret: The Negative Effect of Popular TV on Online Auction Sales |
IS |
February 12, 2016 | Jessica Clark (NYU) | Who’s Watching TV? | IS |
February 8, 2016 | Xiao Liu (Arizona) | Social Media for Pharmacovigilance: A Distant Supervision Approach to Identify Adverse Drug Events | IS |
February 1, 2016 | Jing Peng (Wharton) | Participation vs. Effectiveness of Paid Endorsers in Social Advertising Campaigns: A Field Experiment | IS |
January 29, 2016 | Zhen Sun (UT Dallas) | Mixing Traffic Streams to Maximize Revenue for a Supply-Side Ad Network | IS |
January 22, 2016 | Shun-Yang Lee (UT Anstin) | Word-of-Mouth in Social Media Advertising: “Likes” on Facebook Ads | IS |
January 8, 2016 | Panagiotis (Panos) Adamopoulos (NYU) |
Estimating the Impact of User Personality Traits on Word-of-Mouth: Text-mining Microblogging Platforms | IS |
Dec 04, 2015 | Dorothee Honhon | Learning from Clickstream Data | OS |
Nov 13, 2015 | Robert Swinney | Managing Social Responsibility in Supply Chains | OS |
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