SIG Program

Sustainable Operations SIG Track

SIG 1 Session

8:00-9:30

Diffusion of Residential Solar Power Systems: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Approach
Sebastian Souyris

From Curtailed Renewable Energy to Green Hydrogen: Infrastructure Planning for Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles
Long He

Coffee Break

9:30-10:00

SIG 2 Session

10:00-11:30

A Data-Driven Approach to Improve Artisans’ Productivity
Xinyu Zhang

Algorithmic Precision and Human Decision: A Study of Interactive Optimization for School Schedules
Sebastien Martin

Lunch Break

11:30-13:00

SIG 3 Session

13:00-14:30

Understanding the Impact of Ride-hailing on the Primary and Secondary Car Sales Markets: The Role of Platform Vehicle Age Limits
Natalie Huang

Sharing Newsboys
Setareh Farajollahzadeh

Coffee Break

14:30-15:00

SIG 4 Session

15:00-16:30

Shipment Monitoring, Allocation and the Impact on Food Waste
Tao Lu

Competitive Adoption of Mass Customization and Environmental Sustainability in Fashion
Adem Orsdemir

Coffee Break

16:30-17:00

SIG 5 Session

17:00-17:45

Business Model Innovation for Ambulance Systems in Developing Economies: 'Coordination and Competition'
Gonzalo Romero

Healthcare Operations SIG Track

Room: Cartier II (3rd floor)

SIG 1 Session

8:00-9:30

When Does Collocation of Physical and Mental Health Services Matter?
Vishal Ahuja

Closer to Home: Partnering to Distribute Vaccinations under Spatially Heterogeneous Demand
Fernanda Bravo

Coffee Break

9:30-10:00

SIG 2 Session

10:00-11:30

Got (the Best) Milk? Pooling Donations in Human Milk Banks with Machine Learning and Optimization
Rafid Mahmood

Optimal Genetic Testing of Families
Kanix Wang

Lunch Break

11:30-13:00

SIG 3 Session

13:00-14:30

The Spillover Effect of Suspending Non-essential Surgery: Evidence from Kidney Transplantation
Guihua Wang

Multi-Armed Bandits with Endogenous Learning Curves: An Application to Split Liver Transplantation
Yanhan Savannah Tang

Coffee Break

14:30-15:00

SIG 4 Session

15:00-16:30

Linking Medication Errors to Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from Heparin Shortages Caused by Hurricane Maria
Minje Park

Leapfrogging for Last-mile Delivery in Health Care
Harriet Jeon

Coffee Break

16:30-17:00

SIG 5 Session

17:00-18:30

Multi-Class Advance Patient Scheduling: A Data-Driven Robust Approach
Hamid Arzani

Multi-Class Advance Patient Scheduling
Mohamad Sadegh Shirani Faradonbeh 

TIE SIG Track

Room: International I (3rd floor)

SIG 1 Session

8:00-9:30

Venture Deals: Sources of Leverage in Entrepreneur-Investor Bargaining
Anyan Qi

The Impact of Dual Conceptualizations of Brand Equity on Radical Product Launch Strategy
Junghee Lee

Coffee Break

9:30-10:00

SIG 2 Session

10:00-11:30

How Do Robots Affect Firms’ Innovation Performance? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturers
Bilal Gokpinar

Algorithmic Assortment Curation: An Empirical Study of Buybox in Online Marketplaces
Nil Karacaoglu

Lunch Break

11:30-13:00

SIG 3 Session

13:00-14:30

Fairness Concerns in Heterogeneous Teams: Optimal Team Composition and Contract
Lin Chen

Information Design of a Delegated Search
Yangge Xiao

Coffee Break

14:30-15:00

SIG 4 Session

15:00-16:30

Implications of Worker Classification in On-Demand Economy
Zhoupeng Jack Zhang

The Impact of Automation on Workers when Workers are Strategic: The Case of Ride-Hailing

Zicheng Wang

Coffee Break

16:30-17:00

SIG 5 Session
 

17:00-18:30

Help and Haggle: Social Commerce Through Randomized, All-or-Nothing Discounts
Luyi Yang

The Impact of the Opportunity Zone Program on Residential Real Estate
Maxime Cohen

Service Management SIG Track

Room: Mezzanine (2nd floor)

SIG 1 Session

8:00-9:30

Does Locker Alliance Network Improve Last Mile Delivery Efficiency? An Analysis Using Prize-Collecting Traveling Salesman Model
Guodong Lyu

Electric Vehicle Fleet and Charging Infrastructure Planning
Sushil Varma

Coffee Break

9:30-10:00

SIG 2 Session

10:00-11:30

Algorithm Reliance Under Pressure: The Effect of Customer Load on Service Workers
Clare Snyder

On Customer (Dis)honesty in Unobservable Queues: The Role of Lying Aversion
Arturo Estrada Rodriguez

Lunch Break

11:30-13:00

SIG 3 Session

13:00-14:30

Learning to Rank under Strategic Manipulation in Small and Large Markets
Qinzhen Li

Speed Up the Cold-Start Learning in Two-Sided Bandits with Many Arms
Wanning Chen

Coffee Break

14:30-15:00

SIG 4 Session

15:00-16:30

Customers’ Multi-Homing in Ride-Hailing: Empirical Evidence from Uber and Lyft
Sandeep Chitla

Managing Multihoming Workers in the Gig Economy
Park Sinchaisri

Coffee Break

16:30-17:00

SIG 5 Session

17:00-18:30

Nonparametric Demand Estimation in the Presence of Unobserved Factors
Ashwin Venkataraman

Racial and gender biases in customer satisfaction surveys: Evidence from a restaurant chain
Masoud Kamalahmadi

Supply Chain Management SIG Track

Room: International II (3rd floor)

SIG 1 Session

8:00-9:30

Coordinated Inventory Stocking and Assortment Personalization
Omar El Housni

The Benefits of Delay to Online Decision-Making
Yaqi Xie

Adaptive Lagrangian Policies for Multi-Warehouse Multi-Store Inventory System with Lost Sales
Sentao Miao

Coffee Break

9:30-10:00

SIG 2 Session

10:00-11:30

A New Class of Revenue Management Problems with Overbooking and No-Shows: Shoring up Trust between Shippers and Carriers in Maritime Container Shipping
Jacob Feldman

Waste Reduction of Perishable Products through Markdowns at Expiry Dates
Jinglong Zhao

Combining a Smart Pricing Policy with a Simple Replenishment Policy: Managing Uncertainties in the Presence of Stochastic Purchase Returns
Alys Liang

Lunch Break

11:30-13:00

SIG 3 Session

13:00-14:30

How Supply Chain Complexity Drives Inventory Record Inaccuracy: Empirical Evidence from Cross-border E-commerce
Ting Wang

The Bullwhip Effect in Servicized Manufacturers
Yimeng Niu

Shall We Only Store Popular Products? Warehouse Assortment Selection for E-Companies
Xiaobo Li

Coffee Break

14:30-15:00

SIG 4 Session

15:00-16:30

The Blockchain Newsvendor: Value of Freshness Transparency and Smart Contracts
Chenghuai Li

Information Design and Sharing in Supply Chains
Yichen Zhang

Sourcing with Demand Updates
Jiaqi Lu

Coffee Break

16:30-17:00

SIG 5 Session

17:00-18:30

Taming the Long Tail: The Gambler’s Fallacy in Intermittent Demand Management
Sheng Bi

Expanding into On-Demand Markets with "Airbnb of Warehousing"
Soraya Fatehi

Assortment Optimization with Multi-Item Basket Purchase under the Multivariate MNL Model
Huanan Zhang

iFORM SIG Track

Room: Mansfield 5 (RV level)

SIG 1 Session

8:00-9:30

Portfolio Approach to Cash Flow Variability
William Schmidt

Inventory Productivity and Stock Returns in Manufacturing Networks
Deepak Agrawal

Coffee Break

9:30-10:00

SIG 2 Session

10:00-11:30

Algorithmic Insurance
Agni Orfanoudaki

Allocative Inefficiencies in Public Distributed Ledgers

Ruizhe Jia

Lunch Break

11:30-13:00

SIG 3 Session

13:00-14:30

The Role of Route-Level Decisions in the Efficiency and Resilience of Airline Operations: Evidence from the Wright Amendment Repeal
Yasin Alan

Managerial Flexibility, Capacity Investment, and Inventory Levels
Karca Aral

Coffee Break

14:30-15:00

SIG 4 Session

15:00-16:30

An Operational Perspective on Microfinancing in Developing Countries
Elaheh Rashidinejad

Innovation Against Imitation: How to Compete with Copycats in Crowdfunding?
Zepeng Chen

News event-driven forecasting of commodity prices
Ashwin Venkataraman