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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