Publications
Below are selected publications of the operations management group faculty. For more publications, please visit our collections on the Social Science Research Network and MIT's DSpace. You can also subscribe to our Faculty Publications RSS Feed.
Select Publications and Working Papers
"Competitive Algorithms for the Online Minimum Peak Appointment Scheduling."
Escribe, Célia, Michael Hu, and Retsef Levi. Operations Research. Forthcoming. Download Preprint.
"Development and Analysis of Digital Twins of Production Systems."
Overbeck, Leonard, Stephen C. Graves, and Gisela Lanza. International Journal of Production Research: 1-15. Forthcoming.
"Fair Exploration via Axiomatic Bargaining."
Baek, Jackie, and Vivek F. Farias. Management Science. Forthcoming.
"Fixing Inventory Inaccuracies at Scale."
Farias, Vivek F., Andrew A. Li, and Tianyi Peng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming.
"Good Prophets Know When the End is Near."
Banerjee, Siddhartha, and Daniel Freund. Management Science. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
"Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-Platforms: Evidence from the Field."
Retsef Levi, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
"Matters Arising: Safety of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination During Pregnancy - Obstetric Outcomes from a Large Cohort Study: Methodological Biases in Study Design with Potential Impact on the Study’s Interpretation."
Levi, Retsef, and Efrat Schurr. BMC Childbirth. Forthcoming.
"Optimistic Gittins Indices."
Farias, Vivek F., and Eli Gutin. Operations Research. Forthcoming.
"Policy Optimization for Personalized Interventions in Behavioral Health."
Baek, Jackie, Justin J. Boutilier, Vivek F. Farias, Jónas Oddur Jónasson, and Erez Yoeli. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"The Click-Based MNL Model: A Novel Framework for Modeling Click Data in Assortment Optimization."
Aouad, Ali, Jacob Feldman, Danny Segev, and Dennis Zhang. Management Science. Forthcoming. SSRN Preprint.
"The Limits to Learning a Diffusion Model."
Baek, Jackie, Vivek F. Farias, Andreea Georgescu, Retsef Levi, Tianyi Peng, Deeksha Sinha, Joshua Wilde, and Andrew Zheng. Management Science. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"Translating Agile Management Practices into a Traditional Industry Context."
Kreye, Melanie E., Tabea Ramirez Hernandez, and Steven D. Eppinger. Journal of Product Innovation Management. Forthcoming.
"Upfront Commitment in Online Resource Allocation with Patient Customers."
Golrezaei, Negin and Evan Yao. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"Velocity-based Stowage Policy for a Semiautomated Fulfillment System."
Cezik, Tolga, Stephen C. Graves and Amy C. Liu. Production and Operations Management. Forthcoming.
"Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Panel Data: Insights into the Healthy Incentives Program."
Topic: Economics
Levi, Retsef, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, and Emily Zhang, Working Paper. September 2025. arXiv Preprint.
Keywords: Causal Inference, Heterogeneous Treatment Effects, Low-Rank Matrix Completion, Panel Data, Food Subsidies