Operations Management

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.

Joann de Zegher

Joann de Zegher

Maurice F. Strong Career Development Professor

Featured Publications

"Designing Contracts and Sourcing Channels to Create Shared Value."

de Zegher, Joann F., Dan A. Iancu, and Hau L. Lee. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 21, No. 2 (2019): 271-289. Online Appendix.

"Companies’ Contribution to Sustainability Through Global Supply Chains."

Thorlakson, Tannis, Joann F. de Zegher, and Eric F. Lambin. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences Vol. 115, No. 9 (2018): 2072-2077. Stanford Policy Research Brief. Sustainable Brands. GreenBiz. Science 360. Stanford News. Science Daily. Download Paper.

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Steven Eppinger

Steven Eppinger

General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

Featured Publications

Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications.

Eppinger, Steven D. and Tyson R. Browning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.

Product Design and Development, 7th Edition.

Ulrich, Karl, Steven D. Eppinger, and Maria C. Yang. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Education, 2020.

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Vivek F. Farias

Vivek F. Farias

Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor

Featured Publications

"Learning Preferences with Side Information."

Farias, Vivek, and Andrew A. Li. Management Science Vol. 65, No. 7 (2019): 3131-3149.

"The Approximability of Assortment Optimization under Ranking Preferences."

Aouad, Ali, Vivek Farias, Retsef Levi, and Danny Segev. Operations Research Vol. 66, No. 6 (2018): 1661-1669. Download Paper.

"The Impact of Delays on Service Times in the Intensive Care Unit."

Chan, Carri W., Vivek F. Farias, and Gabriel J. Escobar. Management Science Vol. 63, No. 7 (2017): 2049-2072.

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Mohammad Mehdi Fazel Zarandi

Mohammad Mehdi Fazel Zarandi

Senior Lecturer, Operations Management; Research Scientist

Featured Publications

"Truthful Cheap Talk: Why Operational Flexibility May Lead to Truthful Communication."

Berman, Oded, Mohammad Fazel-Zarandi, and Dmitry Krass. Management Science Vol. 65, No. 4 (2019): 1624-1641.

"Solving a Stochastic Facility Location/Fleet Management Problem with Logic-Based Benders' Decomposition."

Fazel-Zarandi, Mohammad, Oded Berman, and J. Christopher Beck. IIE Transactions Vol. 45, No. 8 (2012): 896-911.

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Charles Fine

Charles Fine

Chrysler Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management

Featured Publications

"Problem Formulation and Solution Mechanisms: A Behavioral Study of Humanitarian Transportation Planning."

Gralla, Erica, Jarrod Goentzel and Charles H. Fine. Production and Operations Management. Forthcoming.

"Assessing Trade-Offs Among Multiple Objectives for Humanitarian Aid Delivery Using Expert Preferences."

Gralla, Erica , Jarrod Goentzel and Charles Fine. Production and Operations Management Vol. 23, No. 6 (2014): 978–989.

"The Evolutionary Path for Corporate Sustainability Based on the Double Helix Model: The Case of GM Korea from 2002-2009."

Fine, Charles H. Korea Business Review Vol. 16, No. 2 (2012): 89-122.

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Daniel Freund

Daniel Freund

Class of 1947 Career Development Professor

Featured Publication

"On the Supply of Autonomous Technologies in Open Platforms."

Freund, Daniel, Ilan Lobel, and Jiayu Zhao, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6816-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2022.

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Negin (Nicki) Golrezaei

Negin (Nicki) Golrezaei

Associate Professor, Operations Management

Featured Publications

"Real-Time Optimization of Personalized Assortments."

Golrezaei, Negin, Hamid Nazerzadeh, and Paat Rusmevichientong. Management Science Vol. 60, No. 6 (2014): 1532-1551. SSRN.

"Auctions with Dynamic Costly Information Acquisition."

Golrezaei, Negin, and Hamid Nazerzadeh. Operations Research Vol. 65, No. 1 (2017): 130-144. Download Paper.

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Stephen C. Graves

Stephen C. Graves

Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management

Featured Publications

"Reflections on the Evolution of Operations Management."

Graves, Stephen C. Management Science Vol. 67, No. 9 (2021): 5379–5388. SSRN Preprint.

"Coordination of Multi-Echelon Supply Chains Using the Guaranteed Service Framework."

Graves, Stephen C., and Tor Schoenmeyr. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Vol. 24, No. 3 (2022): 1859-1871. SSRN Preprint.

"Supply Chain Challenges in the Post-Covid Era."

Graves, Stephen C., Brian Tomlin, and Sean Willems. Production and Operations Management Vol. 31, No. 12 (2022): 4319-4332. SSRN Preprint.

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Jónas Oddur Jónasson

Jónas Oddur Jónasson

Robert G. James Career Development Associate Professor in Operations Management

Featured Publications

"The Variance Learning Curve."

Bavafa, Hessam and Jónas Oddur Jónasson. Management Science Vol. 67, No. 5 (2021): 3104-3116. SSRN Preprint.

"Recovering from Critical Incidents: Evidence from Paramedic Performance."

Bavafa, Hessam and Jónas Oddur Jónasson. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Vol. 23, No. 4 (2021): 914-932. SSRN Preprint. Supplemental Materials.

"Improving HIV Early Infant Diagnosis Supply Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: Models and Application to Mozambique."

​Jónasson, Jónas Oddur, Sarang Deo, and Jérémie Gallien. Operations Research Vol. 65, No. 6 (2017): 1479-1493.

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Retsef Levi

Retsef Levi

J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management

Featured Publications

"Approximation Algorithms for Dynamic Assortment Optimization Models."

Aouad, Ali, Retsef Levi, and Danny Segev. Mathematics of Operations Research Vol. 44, No. 2 (2019): 487-511. Download Paper.

"Changing the Patient Safety Paradigm."

Stevens, Jennifer, Retsef Levi, and Kenneth Sands. Journal of Patient Safety Vol. 15, No. 4 (2019): 288-289.

"Greedy-Like Algorithms for Dynamic Assortment Planning Under Multinomial Logit Preferences."

Aouad, Ali, Retsef Levi, and Danny Segev. Operations Research Vol. 66, No. 5 (2018): 1321-1345. Download Paper.

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Thodoris Lykouris

Thodoris Lykouris

Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor

Featured Publications

"Competitive Caching with Machine Learned Advice."

Lykouris, Thodoris and Sergei Vassilvitskii. Journal of the ACM Vol. 68, No. 4 (2021): 1-25. Video.

"Small-loss Bounds for Online Learning with Partial Information."

Lykouris, Thodoris, Karthik Sridharan, and Éva Tardos. Mathematics of Operations Research Vol. 47, No. 3 (2022): 2186-2218. arXiv Preprint. Video.

"Pricing and Optimization in Shared Vehicle Systems: An Approximation Framework."

Banerjee, Siddhartha, Daniel Freund, and Thodoris Lykouris. Operations Research Vol. 70, No. 3 (2022): 1783-1805. Video. arXiv Preprint.

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Georgia Perakis

Georgia Perakis

John C Head III Dean (Interim), MIT Sloan School of Management

Featured Publications

"The Impact of Linear Optimization in Promotion Planning."

Cohen, Maxime C., Ngai-Hang Zachary Leung, Kiran Panchamgam, Georgia Perakis, and Anthony Smith. Operations Research Vol. 65, No. 2 (2017): 446-468. Media Mentions: MIT Sloan Experts. O.R. by the Beach. HuffPost.

"Regret in the Newsvendor Problem with Partial Information."

Perakis, Georgia and Guillaume Roels. Operations Research Vol. 56, No. 1 (2008): 188-203. Related extended abstract. Appendix.

"The 'Price of Anarchy' Under Nonlinear and Asymmetric Costs."

Perakis, Georgia. Mathematics of Operations Research Vol. 32, No. 3 (2007): 614-628.

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Thomas Roemer

Thomas Roemer

Director, Leaders for Global Operations Senior Lecturer, Operations Management

Featured Publications

"The Traveling Salesman Problem with Flexible Coloring."

Roemer, T., R. Ahmadi, and S. Dasu. Discrete Applied Mathematics Vol. 160, No. 12 (2012): 1798-1814.

"Models for Concurrent Product and Process Design."

Roemer, T., and R. Ahmadi. European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 203, No. 3 (2010): 601-613.

"A Single-Product Inventory Model for Multiple Demand Classes."

Arslan, Hasan, Stephen C. Graves and Thomas A. Roemer. Management Science Vol. 53, No. 9 (2007): 1486-1500.

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Zeynep Ton

Zeynep Ton

Professor of the Practice, Operations Management

Featured Publications

"The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Sales: A Longitudinal Study."

Ton, Zeynep and Ananth Raman. Production and Operations Management Journal Vol. 19, No. 5 (2010): 546-560.

"Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance: The Role of Process Conformance."

Zeynep, Ton and Robert S. Huckman. Organization Science Vol. 19, No. 1 (2008): 56-68.

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Nikos Trichakis

Nikos Trichakis

J.C. Penney Associate Professor of Management

Featured Publications

"Robust Multiclass Queuing Theory for Wait Time Estimation in Resource Allocation Systems."

Bandi, Chaithanya, Nikolaos Trichakis, and Phebe Vayanos. Management Science Vol. 65, No. 1 (2019): 152-187.

"Accept or Decline? An Analytics-Based Decision Tool for Kidney Offer Evaluation."

Bertsimas, Dimitris, Jerry Kung, Nikos Trichakis, David Wojciechowski, and Parsia A. Vagefi. Transplantation Vol. 101, No. 12 (2017): 2898-2904. Editorial.

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Y. Karen Zheng

Y. Karen Zheng

George M. Bunker Professor

Featured Publications

"Chapter 14: Trust and Trustworthiness."

Özer, Özalp and Y. Karen Zheng. In The Handbook of Behavioral Operations, edited by Elena Katok, Karen Donohue, and Stephen Leider, 489-523. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2018. Download Chapter.

"Supply Chain Visibility and Social Responsibility: Investigating Consumers' Behaviors and Motives."

Kraft, Tim, León Valdés, and Y. Karen Zheng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Vol. 20, No. 4 (2018): 617-636. Download Paper. Supplemental Material.

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