Supply Chain Operations Student Papers

Recent Dissertation Titles

  • "Guaranteeing the Right to Health: The Role of Supply Chains and Access to Care" Eric Xu (2022)
  • "Essays on Risk Management in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains" Jingwen Yang (2022)
  • "Managing Spending on Government Technology Initiatives: Evidence from U.S. Federal Government" Roy Dwaipayan (2021)
  • "Sourcing and Capacity Investment Decisions in Supply Chain Risk Management" Junhao (Vincent) Yu (2021)
  • "Designing Public Health Supply Chains: Towards Improving Health Commodity Availability in Developing Countries" Amir Karimi (2020)
  • "Essays on Improving Quality and Safety in Highly Regulated Industries" Sehwon Kang (2019)
  • "Essays on the Role of Network Structure in the Operational Performance" Kedong Chen (2019)
  • "Heterogeneity in Firm Environmental Management Activity: Antecedents and Operational Impacts," Rick Hardcopf (2018)
  • "Production Moves and the Effective Management of Process Knowledge," Pettis Kent (2018)
  • "Impact of External Mechanisms on Energy Efficiency Investments in Industrial Settings," Jason Nguyen (2018)

Recent Graduate Placements 

  • Jingwen Yang, 2022, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
  • Amir Karimi, 2021, University of Texas - San Antonio 
  • Kedong Chen, 2019, Old Dominion University 
  • Rick Hardcopf, 2018, Utah State University 
  • Pettis Kent, 2018, Loyola University Chicago
  • Quang Nguyen, 2018, University of New South Wales - Sydney

Student Publications and Presentations

  • "Optimal Bidding Strategies in Logistics Procurement Auctions," 2021, Production and Operations Management Society Conference, Anna Errore with C. Nachtsheim and K. Donohue
  • "Towards an Inclusive INFORMS: Representation and Distinctive Support Needs of LGTBQIA+ Members", 2021, INFORMS Diversity Blog, Alison Murphy and Dwaipayan Roy
  • “Strukturwandel im Vertrieb–Kooperationen als Antwort auf die Herausforderungen verschiedener Unternehmenscluster”, 2021, Kooperationsmanagement in der Praxis: Lösungsansätze und Beispiele erfolgreicher Kooperationsgestaltung, Finn Petersen with F. Borrmann and A. Seeboth
  • "Taxing the Taxpayers: An Empirical Investigation of the Drivers of Baseline Changes in U.S. Federal Government Technology Programs", 2021, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Dwaipayan Roy with A. Mishra and K. Sinha
  • "How Does Physical Access Affect Emergency Department Use? Evidence from Insurance Coverage Expansion", 2021, Production and Operation Management Society Conference, Eric Xu
  • "Designing Safe and Scalable Precision Medicine Supply Chains: Evaluating the Availability of CPIC Guidelines for Psychiatric Care Delivery", 2021, Production and Operations Management Society, Jingwen Yang with A. Mishra and  K. Sinha
  • "Is Supply Chain Diversion Fueling the Opioid Crisis? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment", 2021, Production and Operations Management Society, Jingwen Yang
  • "Do Penalties Improve Quality in Nursing Homes?", 2021, Production and Operations Management Society, 2020, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Alison Murphy with R. Shah and G. Naravanamurthy
  • "Evaluating Small Business Preference Programs: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Federal Government R&D Contracts", 2021, Production and Operations Management Society, 2020, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Dwaipayan Roy with A. Mishra and K. Sinha
  • "Hyperparameter Optimization of Deep Neural Networks with Applications to Medical Device Manufacturing", 2021, POMS, JSM, 2020, INFORMS, Gautham Sunder with C. Nachtsheim and T. Albrecht
  • "Enabling Mental Healthcare Delivery to Undeserved Populations: An Empirical Analysis of the Equity Advancing Effect of Mobile Apps", 2021, Production and Operations Management Society, 2020, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Yi Tang with A. Moen and K. Sinha
  • "Bidding Strategies for Exploration and Exploitation in Two-Stage Procurement Auctions with Feedback", 2020, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, Annual Meeting, Anna Errore with C. Nachtsheim and K. Donohue
  • "Doctoral Showcase: Main Effects Designs for Logistic Regression that are Robust to the Presence of Two-Factor Interactions", 2020, Anna Errore with R. Cook and C. Nachtsheim
  • "Development and Validation of the Pick-Up Service Quality Scale of Buy-Online-Pick-Up-In-Store Service", 2020, Operations Management Research, Yeon Joo Lee with S. Choi and J.M. Field
  • "LGBTQ Community Building Within INFORMS", 2020, INFORMs Annual Meeting, Dwaipayan Roy with A. Murphy
  • "The Impact of Place on Health: Built Environment and Healthcare Process Outcomes", 2020, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Eric Xu 
  • "Sourcing under Supply Disruption and Responsibility Violation Risks: A Behavioral Investigation", 2020, Kellogg-Wharton OM Workshop, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Junhao (Vincent) Yu with K. Donohue and K. Natarajan
  • "Did India's Price Control Policy for Coronary Stents Create Unintended Consequences", 2020, Social Science & Medicine, Hanu Tyagi with S. Deo, C. Chatterjee and H. Molakapuri
  • "Leveraging Providers' Preferences to Customize Instructional Content in Information and Communications Technology-Based Training Interventions; Retrospective Analysis of a Mobile Phone-Based Intervention in India", 2020, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, Hanu Tyagi with M. Sabharwal, N. Dixit, A. Pal, and S. Deo
  • "Revisiting the Profit-Quality Link in Nursing Homes", 2019, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Alison Clement with R. Shah and K. Linderman
  • "Multi-Objective Optimal Designs for Discrete Choice Experiments", 2019, POMS, Anna Errore with R. Cook and C. Nachtsheim
  • "Minimal Aliasing Optimal Designs for Non-Linear Models," 2019, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences Annual Meeting, Anna Errore with D. Cook and C. Nachtsheim
  • "Preference Programs for R&D Contracts in Public Sector Procurement: Evidence from U.S. Federal Government Set Aside Program", 2019, INFORMS Annual Conference, Dwaipayan Roy with A. Mishra and K. Sinha
  • "Sourcing Under Supply Disruption and Responsibility Violation Risks: A Behavioral Investigation", 2019, Behavioral Operations Conference, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Vincent (Junhao) Yu with K. Donohue and K. Natarajan
  • "Designing Save and Scalable Precision Medicine Supply Chain: Evaluating the Implementation of Guidelines for Psychiatric Care Delivery", 2019, Midwest Healthcare Conference, INFORMS Annual Conference, Jingwen Yang with A. Mishra and K. Sinha
  • "Home is Where the Heart is: An Ecological Systems View of Process Outcomes", 2019, INFORMS Annual Conference, Eric Xu with K. Linderman
  • "Unraveling Context: How Environments Shape Health Outcomes," 2019, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Eric Xu with K. Linderman
  • "Advancing Equity in the Mental Healthcare Supply Chain: Empirical Evaluation of a Mobile App", 2019, Midwest Healthcare Management Conference, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Yi Tang with A. Moen and K. Kinha
  • "Evaluating Pull vs. Push Public Health Supply Chains to Manage Commodity Stock-outs: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Senegal", 2019, POMS annual meeting, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Amir Karimi
  • "Managing Commodity Stock-outs in Public Health Supply Chains in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis", 2019, POMS annual meeting, Amir Kamiri
  • "Reducing Wasteful Government Spending: An Empirical Study on Rebaselining in U.S. Federal Government Technology Programs", 2019, POMS Annual Meeting, Dwaipayan Roy
  • "Set-Asides for Small Businesses in Public Sector Procurement: Evidence from U.S. Federal Government R&D Contracts", 2019, POMS Annual Meeting, Dwaipayan Roy
  • "Advancing equity in the mental healthcare supply chain: Empirical evaluation of a mobile app", 2019, POMS Annual Meeting, Yi Tang
  • "Designing Save and Scalable Precision Medicine Supply Chain: Evaluating the Implementation of Guidelines for Psychiatric Care Delivery", 2019, POMS Annual Meeting, Jingwen Yang
  • "How supply chain risks influence supplier selection and ordering decisions: A behavioral investigation", 2019, POMS Annual Meeting and 2018, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Vincent (Junhao) Yu
  • "Resilience Investment in Supply Chain Network under Stochastic Disruptions", 2018, INFORMS annual meeting, Kedong Chen
  •  "Big Data in Supply Chain and Logistics Management," 2018, Decision Science Institute Annual Conference, Kedong Chen
  • "Warehouse Performance in the Network: The Role of Structural Embeddedness", 2017, INFORMS annual meeting, Kedong Chen
  • "Short-term bias and strategic Misalignment in operational solutions: Perceptions, tendencies, and traps," 2017, European Journal of Operational Research, Rick Hardcopf with P. Goncalves, K. Linderman, and E. Bendoly
  • "The impact of spill and pollution controversies on firm environmental activity," 2017, INFORMS annual meeting, Rick Hardcopf with R. Shah and S. Dhanorkar
  • "Explaining heterogeneity in environmental management practice adoption: A multi-level approach," 2017, Production & Management Operations Society annual meeting, Rick Hardcopf with R. Shah and U. Mukherjee
  • "Explaining heterogeneity in environmental management practice adoption: A multi-level approach," 2017, Early-career sustainable OM Conference, Rick Hardcopf with R. Shah and U. Mukherjee
  • "Production Process Moves and the Need to Adapt," 2017, Production and Operations Management (POM) Journal, Pettis Kent with E. Siemsen
  • "Production Process Moves and the Need to Adapt," 2017, INFORMS, Pettis Kent
  • "Production Process Moves: Template Use and the Need to Adapt," 2017, Production Operations Management Society Annual Meeting, Pettis Kent with E. Siemsen
  • "Impact of Carbon Pricing On Improving Supply Chain Energy Efficiency," 2017, POMS Annual Conference, Quang Nguyen