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POMS College of Behavioral OM Mini-Conference Program

  • 1.  POMS College of Behavioral OM Mini-Conference Program

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    POMS College of Behavioral Operations Management
    Mini-Conference Houston
    May 3, 2018
     

    10:00am – 11:15am: Junior scholar working paper finalist session 1

    Speaker: Bhavani Uppari, INSEAD

    Title: Modeling Newsvendor Behavior: A Prospect Theory Approach

    Speaker: Yuqian Xu, University of Illinois

    Title: When Is the Root of All Evil not Money? The Impact of Load on Operational Risk at a Commercial Bank

    Speaker: Dennis Zhang, Washington University St. Louis

    Title: How Does Dynamic Pricing Affect Customer Behavior on Retailing Platforms? Evidence from a

    Large Randomized Experiment on Alibaba


    11:30am – 12:45pm: Junior scholar working paper finalist session 2

    Speaker: Mahdi Mahmoudzadeh, Georgia Institute of Technology

    Title: On the Non-Equivalence of Trade-ins and Upgrades in the Presence of Framing Effect: Experimental Evidence and Implications for Theory

    Speaker: Behrooz Pourghannad, University of Minnesota

    Title: Is Simplicity the Ultimate Sophistication? Wholesale Pricing vs. Non-Linear Pricing

    Speaker: Blair Flicker, University of Texas at Dallas

    Title: Managerial Insight and "Optimal" Algorithms


    12:45pm – 2:00pm: Lunch and Awards

     

    2:00pm – 3:30pm: Paper session

    Speaker: Yifu Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Title: Service Design under Acclimation and Non-homogeneous Memory Decay

    Speaker: Siqi Ma, University of Akron

    Title: Inventory Control under Different Forms of Uncertainty: Ambiguity and Stochastic Variability

    Speaker: Xianghua Wu, University of Texas at Arlington

    Title: Trust in Supply Chain with Double Marginalization

    Speaker: Quan Zheng, University of Florida

    Title: Probabilistic Selling for Vertically Differentiated Products with Salient Thinkers


    3:45pm – 4:35pm: Behavioral issues in practice

    Speaker: Jeremy Brann, Shell Exploration & Production Co

    Title: The Destructive Role of Hidden Decision Criteria on Decision Quality and Project Team Effectiveness


    4:45pm - 5:35pm: Keynote address

    Speaker: Elena Katok, University of Texas at Dallas

    Title: Trust and Usability: Numeracy and Forecast Compliance

    6:00pm – 7:30pm: Joint reception for POMS Colleges



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    Nikolay Osadchiy
    Associate Professor
    Emory University
    Atlanta GA
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