The W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness supports applied research activities through doctoral research fellowships with the objective of producing new knowledge related to the field of operations management, and providing students with the opportunity to use company data to validate academic hypotheses, increasing their exposure to industry problems and enhancing the relevance of their research.
Led by Research Director Santiago Balseiro, the Deming Center has supported the following research projects and classes:
Research
Spatial Capacity Planning In Operations Research (forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Francisco Castro, Ilan Lobel
Shapley Meets Uniform: An Axiomatic Framework for Attribution in Online Advertising In Management Science (forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Raghav Singal, Omar Besbes, Antoine Desir, Vineet Goyal, Garud Iyengar
Static Pricing: Universal Guarantees for Reusable Resources In Operations Research (forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Adam N. Elmachtoub, Yunjie Sun
Optimal Pricing with a Single Point (2021)
Coauthor(s): Amine Allouah, Achraf Bahamou, Omar Besbes
Pricing with Samples In Operations Research (2021)
Coauthor(s): Amine Allouah, Achraf Bahamou, Omar Besbes
Surge Pricing and Its Spatial Supply Response In Management Science (2021)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Francisco Castro, Ilan Lobel
At the Frontier of Retail in the 21st Century: Modern Fulfillment and The Case of FlexiWeight (2021)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Carri Chan, C. Daniel Guetta
Contextual Inverse Optimization: Offline and Online Learning (2021)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Yuri Fonseca, Ilan Lobel
The Exploration-Exploitation Trade-off in the Newsvendor Problem In Stochastic Systems (2021)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Juan Manuel Chaneton, Ciamac Moallemi
How Big Should Your Data Really Be? Data-Driven Newsvendor and the Transient of Learning (2021)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Omar Mouchtaki
Prior-Independent Optimal Auctions In Management Science (2020)
Coauthor(s): Amine Allouah, Omar Besbes
Music Streaming (2020)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Mark Broadie, Ciamac C. Moallemi
The Intersection of Data & Human Experience (2020)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes
Dynamic Mechanism Design with Budget Constrained Buyers Under Limited Commitment In Operations Research (2019)
Coauthor(s): Santiago Balseiro, Omar Besbes
Optimal Exploration-Exploitation in a Multi-armed Bandit Problem with Non-stationary Rewards In Stochastic Systems (2019)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur, Assaf Zeevi
Contracting in Medical Equipment Maintenance Services: An Empirical Investigation In Management Science (2019)
Coauthor(s): Tian Chan, Francis de Vericourt, Omar Besbes
Dynamic Pricing under Debt: Spiraling Distortions and Efficiency Losses In Management Science (2018)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Dan Iancu, Nikos Trichakis
On Information Distortions in Online Ratings In Operations Research (2018)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Marco Scarsini
Auctions in the Online Display Advertising Chain: A Case for Independent Campaign Management (2017)
Coauthor(s): Amine Allouah, Omar Besbes
Optimization in Online Content Recommendation Services: Beyond Click-Through-Rates In Manufacturing & Service Operations (2016)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur, Assaf Zeevi
Product Assortment and Price Competition under Multinomial Logit Demand In Production and Operations Management (2016)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Denis Saure
Repeated Auctions with Budgets in Ad Exchanges: Approximations and Design In Management Science (2015)
Coauthor(s): Santiago Balseiro, Omar Besbes
Non-Stationary Stochastic Optimization In Operations Research (2015)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Yonatan Gur, Assaf Zeevi
Intertemporal Price Discrimination: Structure and Computation of Optimal Policies In Management Science (2015)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Ilan Lobel
On the (Surprising) Sufficiency of Linear Models for Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning In Management Science (2015)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi
H&K (2014)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Mark Broadie, Garrett J. van Ryzin
Tahoe Healthcare Systems (2014)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Mark Broadie, Garrett J. van Ryzin
DSS (2014)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Mark Broadie, Garrett J. van Ryzin
Nomis Solutions (A and B) (2014)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Daizhuo Chen, Robert L. Phillips
Dynamic Pricing Strategies in the Presence of Demand Shifts In Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2014)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Denis Saure
Pandora Internet Radio (2013)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Mark Broadie, Garrett J. van Ryzin
Beleza Natural (Spanish Translation) (2013)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Nelson M. Fraiman, Marcelo Olivares, Maria J. Quinteros, Gabriel Y. Weintraub
How Much Should We Trust Online Ratings? (2013)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes
On implications of demand censoring in the newsvendor problem In Management Science (2013)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Alp Muharremoglu
Beleza Natural (2012)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Nelson M. Fraiman, Marcelo Olivares, Maria J. Quinteros, Gabriel Y. Weintraub
Dynamic Pricing with Financial Milestones: Feedback-Form Policies In Management Science (2012)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Costis Maglaras
Blind Network Revenue Management In Operations Research (2012)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi
Lean Operations: From Efficiency to Profit (2011)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Trevor Harris, Marcelo Olivares, Gabriel Weintraub
On the minimax complexity of pricing in a changing environment In Operations Research (2011)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi
Emergency Department Congestion at Saintemarie University Hospital (2011)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Carri Chan, Laurent Hublet
Testing the Validity of a Demand Model: An Operations Perspective In Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2010)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi
Dynamic Pricing Without Knowing the Demand Function: Risk Bounds and Near-Optimal Algorithms In Operations Research (2009)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi
Revenue Optimization for a Make-to-Order Queue in an Uncertain Market Environment In Operations Research (2009)
Coauthor(s): Omar Besbes, Costis Maglaras
Teaching
Spring 2022
Foundations of Operations Management (PHD)
Spring 2021
Operations Management (EMBA)
Fall 2021
Business Analytics (MBA)
Fall 2020
Business Analytics (MBA)
Spring 2019
Business Analytics (MBA)
Fall 2019
Business Analytics (MBA)
Spring 2017
Business Analytics (MBA)