Thursday, February 09
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome reception (The Aerie)
Friday, February 10
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Primrose)
7:30 – 9:45 a.m. | Session I (Primrose)
Session Chairs: Manel Baucells and Woonam Hwang
- Woonam Hwang (Utah): Favorable Risk Selection in Medicare Advantage:
The Effect of Allowing Non-Medical Services - Kostas Bimpikis (Stanford): Market Fragmentation and Inefficiencies in
Maritime Shipping - Manel Baucells (Virginia): Search in the Dark, the Normal Case
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Outdoor activities
4:00 – 4:30 p.m. | Light snacks (Primrose)
4:30 – 6:45 p.m. | Session II (Primrose)
Session Chairs: Nitin Bakshi and Manu Goyal
- Hema Yoganarasimhan (U. Washington): Personalization and Marketing: New
Developments, Challenges, and Opportunities - Nikolay Osadchiy (Emory): Fragmentation and visibility in supply
networks - Daniel Russo (Columbia): Optimizing Audio Recommendations for the
Long-Term: A Reinforcement Learning Perspective
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Dinner (Wasatch)
Saturday, February 11
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Primrose)
7:30 – 9:45 a.m. | Session III: Higher Education
Session Chair: Nils Rudi
- Serguei Netessine (Penn): The future of business education: new
markets, new technologies and new business models - Kamalini Ramdas (LBS): Increasing Equity and Impact in Business Ed and
Higher Ed - Nils Rudi (Yale): How can I be a better teacher when not teaching?
10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Outdoor activities
4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Light snacks (Primrose)
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. | Session IV: Keynote (Primrose)
- Robert Gibbons (MIT): From Coase to culture: Visible Hands Building
Equilibrium
6:15 – 9:30 p.m. | Dinner (Wasatch)
2022 Agenda
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2022
7 – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome reception (Atrium)
Friday, Feb. 4, 2022
7 – 7:30 a.m.
Breakfast buffet (Primrose)
7:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Session I: Data and Operations Management (Primrose)
Session Chairs: Nitin Bakshi and Manu Goyal
- Senthil Veeraraghavan (Wharton/Penn): Platform Fulfillment: Antitrust and Supply Chain Competition
- Mark Jansen (Eccles/Finance): Intermediary Profits in a Time of Scarcity
- Nicole DeHoratius (Booth/Chicago): Retail Analytics: The Quest for Actionable Insights from Big Data on Consumer Behavior and Operational Execution
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Outdoor activities – Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts
4 – 4:30 p.m.
Light snacks (Primrose)
4:30 – 6:45 p.m.
Session II: Innovative Pricing Strategies (Primrose)
Session Chair: Bharadwaj Kadiyala
- Omar Besbes (Columbia): On the (surprising) value of your data
- Elodie Adida (UC Riverside): Outcome-based pricing for new pharmaceuticals via Rebates
- Bharadwaj Kadiyala (Eccles-OM): Social Learning and Polarization on Content Platforms
7 – 9 p.m.
Dinner (Wasatch)
Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022
7 – 7:30 a.m.
Breakfast buffet (Primrose)
7:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Session III: COVID Modeling (Primrose)
Session Chairs: Tava Olsen and Nicos Savva
- Kimon Drakopoulos (Marshall/USC): Efficient and Targeted COVID-19 Border Testing via Reinforcement Learning
- Hyun-Soo Ahn (Ross/Michigan): Optimal COVID-19 Containment Strategies: Evidence Across Multiple Mathematical Models
- Forrest Crawford (Yale): COVID-19 transmission models in the real world: models, data, and policy
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Outdoor activities – Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts
4 – 4:45 p.m.
Light snacks (Primrose)
4:45 – 6:15 p.m.
Session IV (Primrose)
Session Chair: Jan Van Mieghem
- Dan Iancu (Stanford): Quantifying the Benefits of Targeting for Pandemic Response
- Jan Van Mieghem (Kellogg/Northwestern): From Data to Science and from Science to Data: Two stories
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Dinner (Wasatch)
2020 Agenda
Thursday, January 30 , 2020
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome reception (Atrium)
Friday, January 31, 2020
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Superior)
7:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Session I: Data Driven Research (Superior)
- Hamsa Bastani (Wharton) – Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs with Surrogates: When Should We Bother?
- Tauhid Zaman (Yale) – Finding Online Extremists in Social Networks.
- Spyros Zoumpoulis (INSEAD) – Efficiently Evaluating Targeting Policies: Improving Upon Champion vs. Challenger Experiments
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m | Outdoor activities – The Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts
4:00 – 4:30 p.m | Light afternoon snacks (Superior)
4:30 – 7:00 p.m | Session II: Food Supply Chains. (Session Chair: Jaelynn Oh) (Superior)
- Dan Iancu (Stanford) – Sustaining Rainforests and Smallholders by Eliminating Payment Delay in a Commodity Supply Chain—It takes a Village
- Elena Belavina (Cornell) – Grocery Store Density and Food Waste
- Jaelynn Oh (Utah) – Pricing Models for online Food Ordering Platforms: Commission Rates and Delivery Fees
7:00 – 9:00 p.m | Dinner (Wasatch)
Keynote Speaker: Jan van Mieghem (Kellogg) – Digital Operations: Framework and Future Directions
Saturday, February 1, 2020
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Superior)
7:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Session III: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Session Chairs: Nitin Bakshi and Manu Goyal) (Superior)
- Wouter Dessein (Columbia) – Rational Inattention and Organizational Focus
- Emir Kamenica (Chicago) – Information Hierarchies
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m | Outdoor activities – The Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts
4:00 – 4:30 p.m | Light afternoon snacks (Superior)
4:30 – 7:00 p.m | Session IV: Social Impact of Algorithms (Session Chair: Nicos Savva) (Superior)
- Suresh V. (Utah) – Algorithmic Fairness: Measures, Methods and Representations
- Yiangos Papanastasiou (Berkeley) – Seeding the Herd: Pricing and Welfare Effects of Social Learning Manipulation
- Nicos Savva (London Business School) – The Ethics of Algorithms
7:00 p.m | Dinner (Wasatch)
2020 Attendees
Jason Acimovic, Penn State
Elodie Adida, UC, Riverside
Gad Allon, Wharton
Krishnan Anand, University of Utah
Ekaterina Astashkina, Michigan
Volodymyr Babich, Georgetown
Nitin Bakshi, University of Utah
Hamsa Bastani, Wharton
Manuel Baucells, Virginia
Elena Belavina, Cornell University
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford
Soo-Haeng Cho, Carnegie Mellon
Morris Cohen, Wharton
Philipp Cornelius, Rotterdam
Wouter Dessein, Columbia
Stephen Disney, University of Exeter Buisness School
Cheryl Druehl, George Mason
Manu Goyal, University of Utah
Henri Groenevelt, Rochester
Woonam Hwang, Utah
Dan Iancu, Stanford
Bharadwaj Kadiyala, University of Utah
Emir Kamencia, Chicago
Mirko Kremer, Frankfurt School of FM gGmbH
Ilan Lobel, NYU
Joseph Milner, Toronto
Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia
Ruslan Momot, HEC Paris
Serguei Netessine, Wharton
Jaelynn Oh, University of Utah
Tava Olsen, University of Auckland
Nikolay Osadchiy, Emory
Yiangos Papanastasiou, UC Berkeley
Christopher Parker, American University
Nabita Penmetsa, University of Utah
Heikki Peura, Imperial College
Guillaume Roels, INSEAD
Nils Rudi, Yale
Nicos Savva, London Business School
Glen Schmidt, University of Utah
Hyo Duk Shin, UC San Diego
Masha Shunko, Washington
Ravi Subramanian, Georgia Tech
Terry Taylor, UC Berkeley
Tolga Tezcan, London Business School
Mike Toffel, Harvard
Beril Toktay, Georgia Tech
Anita Tucker, Boston University
Sezer Ulku, Georgetown
Jan Van Mieghem, Kellogg
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, University of Utah
Don Wardell, University of Utah
Tauhid Zaman, Yale
Spyros Zoumpoulis, INSEAD
2019 Agenda
Thursday, January 31 , 2019
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome reception (Atrium)
Friday, February 1, 2019
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Primrose B)
7:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Session I: Two Sided Platforms (Primrose B)
- Yash Kanoria (Columbia): Facilitating the search for partners on matching platforms
- Andrei Hagiu (Boston): Creating platforms by hosting rivals
- Upender Subramanian (Dallas): Your Uber is Arriving: Managing on-demand workers through surge pricing, forecast communication and worker incentives
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m | Outdoor activities – The Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts
4:00 – 4:45 p.m | Light afternoon snacks (Primrose B)
4:45 – 6:45 p.m | Session II: Pricing and Risk in Operations (Primrose B)
- Ahmet Kuyumcu (Founder and CEO of Prorize): Revenue Management In The Self -Storage Industry
- Nitin Bakshi (Utah): Reporting (or Not) of Precursors to Disasters
7:00 – 9:00 p.m | Dinner (Twin Peaks B)
Keynote Speaker: Tava Olsen (Univ. of Auckland, NZ): Agriculture 4.0
Saturday, February 2, 2019
7:00 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Primrose B)
7:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Session III: Blockchains (Primrose B)
- Vlad Babich (Georgetown): Distributed ledgers: What OM researchers should know about Blockchain Technology
- Gerry Tsoukalas (Penn): Blockchain and the Value of Operational Transparency for Supply Chain Finance
- Ciamac Moallemi (Columbia): An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m | Outdoor activities – The Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts
4:00 – 4:45 p.m | Light afternoon snacks (Primrose B)
4:45 – 6:45 p.m | Session IV: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Primrose B)
- Steve Tadelis (Berkeley): Using Economics and Machine Learning to Engineer Trust
- Jonathan Brogaard (Utah): Networks and productivity: Causal evidence from editor rotations
7:00 – 9:30 p.m | Dinner (Twin Peaks B)
2019 Attendees
Jason Acimovic, Penn State University
Gad Allon, Penn
Krishnan Anand, Utah
Atalay Atasu, Georgia Tech
Volodymyr Babich, Georgetown
Nitin Bakshi, Utah
Manuel Baucells, Virginia
Konstantinos Bimpikis, Stanford University
Jonathan Brogaard, Utah
David Brown, Duke
Soo-Haeng Cho, Carnegie Mellon University
Yael Cockayne, Harvard Business School
Jeremie Gallien, London Business School
Elodie Goodman, UC Riverside
Manu Goyal, Utah
Henri Groenevelt, Rochester
Andrei Hagui, Boston
Dan Iancu, Stanford University
Yashodhan Kanoria, Columbia
Diwas KC, Emory
Mirko Kremer, Frankfurt School of Finance & Mgt gGmbH
Ahmet Kuyumcu, Priorize
Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia
Ruslan Momot, HEC Paris
Serguei Netessine, Penn
Jaelynn Oh, Utah
Tava Olsen, University of Auckland
Christopher Parker, Penn State
Heikki Peura, Imperial College
Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Tech
Taylor Randall, University of Utah
Guillaume Roels, INSEAD
Nils Rudi, Yale
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
Nicos Savva, London Business School
Glen Schmidt, Utah
Nicola Secomandi, Carnegie Mellon University
Hyoduk Shin, UC San Diego
Masha Shunko, University of Washington
Upender Subramanian, UT Dallas
Steve Tedelis, Berkeley
Doug Thomas, University of Virginia
Mike Toffel, Harvard Business School
Beril Toktay, Georgia Tech
Gerry Tsoukalas, Penn
Anita Tucker, Boston Univ.
Sezer Ulku, Georgetown
Jan Van Mieghem, Northwestern
Senthil Veeraraghavan, Penn
Don Wardell, Utah
Dan Zhang, Leeds School of Business
Spyridon Zoumpoulis, INSEAD
2018 Agenda
Thursday, February 1, 2019
7 – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome reception – at the El Chanate Mexican Restaurant
Friday, February 2, 2018
7 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Primrose)
7:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Session I (Primrose)
- Field Vs. Lab Experiments: Implications for Behavioral OM Chair: Serguei Netessine (Wharton)
- Dennis Zhang (Olin): Field Experiments and Big Data
- Serguei Netessine (Wharton): Stuck in the lab? Go out in the field!
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Outdoor activities – The Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts
4 – 4:45 p.m. | Light afternoon snacks (Primrose)
4:45 – 6:45 p.m. | Session II (Primrose)
- Prediction Markets
- Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth) The Trump Presidency and Stock Prices
- Lyle Ungar (Penn): Prediction Markets Vs. Prediction Polls
7 – 8:15 p.m. | Dinner with keynote speaker (Twin Peaks)
- Sandeep Garg, “Head & GM of Information and Analytics Solutions” at First Data: Insights, Opportunities & Challenges: Working with the world’s largest payments data store”
Saturday, February 3, 2018
7 – 7:30 a.m. | Breakfast buffet (Primrose)
7:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Session III (Primrose)
New Frontiers in Service Operations, Chair: Gad Allon (Wharton)
- Rohit Verma (Cornell): I-Robot: The evolving role of AI and humanoid robots in services
- Ryan Buell (Harvard): Improving Customer Compatibility in Service
- Gad Allon (Wharton): Managing Services in the presence of social networks
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Outdoor activities – The Snowbird and Alta Ski Resorts
4 – 4:45 p.m. | Light afternoon snacks (Primrose)
4:45 – 6:45 p.m. | Session IV (Primrose)
- Sustainable Operations, Chair: Krishnan Anand (Utah)
- Beril Toktay (Georgia Tech): Sustainable Operations – the Key to Clean and Inclusive Growth
- Krishnan Anand (Utah): Pollution Regulation and Fairness
7 – 9:30 p.m. | Dinner (Twin Peaks)
2018 Attendees
Jason Acimovic, Penn State
Gad Allon, Wharton
Krishnan Anand, University of Utah
Atasu Atalay, Georgia Tech
Nitin Bakshi, University of Utah
Santiago Balseiro, Columbia University
Manel Baucells, Darden
Omar Besbes, Columbia University
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford
Ryan Buell, Harvard
Morris Cohen, Wharton
Kyunghwa Chung, Chung-Ang University
South Korea
Sandeep Garg, First Data Corporation
Manu Goyal, University of Utah
Harry Groenevelt, University of Rochester (Simon)
Dan Iancu, Stanford
Ozge Islegen, Northwestern
Yash Kanoria, Columbia Business School
Diwas KC, Emory
Mirko Kremer, Frankfurt
Joseph Milner, University of Toronto
Serguei Netessine, Penn State
Nikolay Osadchiy, Emory University
Chris Parker, Penn State
Taylor Randall, University of Utah
Guillaume Roels, UCLA
Nils Rudi, INSEAD
Nicos Savva, London Business School
Glen Schmidt, University of Utah
Masha Shunko, University of Washington
Hummy Song, Wharton
Terry Taylor, Berkeley
Tolga Tezcan, London Business School
Mike Toffel, Harvard
Beril Toktay, Georgia Tech
Anita Tucker, Boston University
Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania
Jan Van Mieghem, Northwestern
Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia Business School
Rohit Verma, Cornell
Don Wardell, University of Utah
Dennis Zhang, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
Lina Zhong, Beijing International Studies University
Eric Zitzewitz, Dartmouth
Sina Moghadas Khorasani, University of Utah
Dana Romero, University of Utah
Syd Hashem Alavi, University of Utah
2017 Agenda
Thursday, February 2, 2017
7:00- 9:00 PM | Welcome Reception: 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM – El Chanate Mexican Restaurant
Friday, February 3, 2017
7:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Session I (Primrose B)
- Socially Responsible Operations. Chair: Gad Allon (Wharton)
- Michael Toeffel, Harvard University, “Auditing of Supply Chains.”
- Kamalini Ramdas, London Business School, “Assessing the impact of new care delivery models.”
- Ravi Anupindi, U. of Michigan, “Social Issues in Global Supply Chains.”
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Outdoor Activities – Snowbird/Alta Ski Resorts
4:45 PM – 6:45 PM | Session II (Primrose B)
- Teaching Innovations. Chair: Terry Taylor (UC Berkeley) Conference participants will share their educational initiatives.
- Data-driven Healthcare Part II Chair: Jan Van Mieghem (Northwestern)
- Dale Sanders, Health Catalyst, “Putting it All Together: Integrating Data for Decision Support in Population Health.”
7:00 PM – 9:30PM | Dinner (Alpenglow)
- Chair: Tava Olsen
- Dinner Speaker – Robert Pendleton, Chief Medical Quality Officer, U of U Hospitals, “Reducing Cost and Improving the Quality of Healthcare.”
Saturday, February 4, 2017
7:00 AM – 7:45 AM | Breakfast Buffet (Primrose B)
7:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Session III (Primrose B)
- Operations Applications in Startups. Chair: Nicole DeHoratius
- Max Lock, Founder, Fleet Logistics, and Thiel Fellow. “Managing Throughout Vehicle Life-Cycles.”
- Mariah Scott, COO, SkyWard. “Drone Operations Software.”
- Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford University. “Experiences as Chief Economist at AppNexus.”
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Outdoor Activities – Snowbird/Alta Ski Resorts
4:45 AM – 6:45 PM | Session IV (Primrose B)
- Data-driven Healthcare. Chair: Nicos Savva (London Business School)
- Anita Tucker, Boston University, “Conducting Research Using Multiple Sources of Data.”
- Diwas KC, Emory, “Empirical Research in Healthcare.”
7:00 PM – 9:30PM | Dinner (Alpenglow)
- Chair: Nils Rudi
- Dinner Speaker – Anton Wiranata, Senior Data Scientist at Overstock.com. “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Operations.”
2017 Attendees
Anita Tucker, Boston University
Ayhan Aydin, George Mason University
Dan Iancu, Stanford University
Don Wardell, University of Utah DESB
Gabriel Weintraub, Columbia Business School
Gad Allon, Wharton (Kellogg)
Gemma Berenguer, Purdue University
Glen Schmidt, University of Utah
Guillaume Roels, UCLA
Henri Groenevelt, University or Rochester
Ilan Lobel, New York University
Jan Van Mieghem, Northwestern U, Kellogg
Jason Acimovic, Penn State
Kamalini Ramdas, London Business School
KC Diwas, Emory University
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford University
Masha Shunko, University of Washington
Michael Toffel, Harvard
Morris Cohen, U of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Nicolas Stier, Columbia
Nicole DeHoratius, U of Chicago, Booth School
Nicos Savva, London Business School
Nils Rudi, INSEAD
Omar Besbes, Columbia University
Ravi Anupindi, Michigan (Ross)
Robert Batt, Wisconsin
Tava Olsen, University of Auckland
Taylor Randall, U of Utah (David Eccles School)
Terry Taylor, U.C. Berkeley
2016 Agenda
Thursday, February 4, 2016
6:00 – 8:00 PM | Join the group at any time for an informal dinner – El Chanate restaurant
Friday, February 5, 2016
7:00 AM – 7:30 AM | Full Breakfast (Primrose B)
7:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Session I (Primrose B)
On-Demand Service Platform
- Garrett van Ryzin, Columbia University and Head of Dynamic Pricing Research, Uber Technologies, “Surge Pricing at Uber”
- Terry Taylor, UC Berkeley, “On-demand Service Platforms”
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM | Winter Fun Activities – Snowbird/Alta Ski Resorts
4:45 PM – 6:45 PM | Session II (Primrose B)
Panel: The Innovation Cycle (joint panel with PSI Conference)
- Chris Wasden, Executive Director, Sorenson Center for Discovery and Innovation
- Paul Kirwin, CEO Channel Signal
- Richard Finlayson, COO, Integrated Energy Companies
7:00 PM – 9:30PM | Dinner (Magpie)
- Dinner Speaker – Todd Zenger, University of Utah. “The problem solving perspective of the firm.”
Saturday, February 6, 2016
7:00 AM – 7:30 AM | Full Breakfast (Primrose B)
7:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Session III (Primrose B)
- Chair: Tava Olsen, University of Auckland
- Adam Meirowitz, University of Utah, “Large population voting games.”
- Santiago Balseiro, Duke University and Ilan Lobel, NYU, “Revenue Management in Online Ad Markets”
10:00 AM – 4:45 PM | Winter Fun Activities – Snowbird/Alta Ski Resorts
4:45 AM – 6:45 PM | Session IV (Primrose B)
Panel: Innovation Research Entrepreneurship in Academics (joint panel with PSI Conference)
- Moderator: Rohit Verma, Cornell
- Karl Ulrich, Vice Dean of Innovation, Wharton
- Jay Barney, University of Utah, Chair of Entrepreneurship and Strategy
- Glenn Prestwich, University of Utah, Director of Entrepreneurial Faculty Scholars
7:00 PM – 9:30PM | Dinner (Magpie)
- Dinner Speaker – Karl Ulrich, Wharton, “Product Design”.
2016 Attendees
Jason Acimovic, Penn State
Gad Allon, Northwestern U, Kellogg
Santiago Balseiro, Duke University
Robert Batt, Wisconsin
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford University
Kyle Cattani, Indiana University
Rene de Koster, Erasmus U, Rotterdam SOM, NL
Dan Iancu, Stanford University
Ozge Islegen, Northwestern
Ilan Lobel, New York University
Ruben Lobel, U of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Joseph Milner, University of Toronto
Jaelynn Oh, University of Utah
Tava Olsen, University of Auckland
Nikolay Osadchiy, Emory University
Anton Ovchinnikov, Queen’s U, Kingston, Ontario
Chris Parker, Penn St
Nabita Penmetsa, University of Utah
Taylor Randall, U of Utah (David Eccles School)
Nicos Savva, London Business School
Glen Schmidt, University of Utah
Nicola Secomandi, Tepper School, Carnegie Mellon U
Masha Shunko, University of Washington
Terry Taylor, U.C. Berkeley
Doug