Zaragoza Logistics Center | News & Events | MIT-Zaragoza Speakers Series

Sept 13, 2010	Glen Schmidt, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA Title: Modular versus Integral Architectures: EMpirical Analysis of a Healthcare Setting
Sept 3, 2010	Marcius Carvalho, Research Center for Information Technology (CTI), Campinas, Brazil Title: Evaluation of enterprise cooperation through information exchange
July 1, 2010	Stefan Nickel, Institute for Operations Research, Faculty of Economics University of Karlsruhe, Germany Title: Location Problems in Supply Chain Management
May 12, 2010	Bruno Santos, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal Title: Interurban road network planning: A multiobjective perspective using the concept of level of service
April 15, 2010	Nesim K. Erkip, Department of Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Title: A Final Phase Inventory Problem
March 23, 2010	Juan Antonio Mesa, Department of Applied Mathematics II, University of Sevilla, Spain Title: Robust Transportation Network Design: the Passenger Railway Case
March 12, 2010	José Antonio Larco, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Title: Modeling goals for operational performance -- Theoretical and empirical approaches
February 9, 2010	Augusto Rupérez-Micola, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Title: The emergence of biofuels and the co-movement between crude oil and agricultural prices
February 2, 2010	Richard Pibernik, European Business School and MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program Title: Risk Preferences of Purchasing Managers and their Impact on Sourcing Strategies
January 19, 2010	Miguel Gutiérrez, Engineering Management Area Carlos III University of Madrid Title:Manufacturing Planning and Control System of Complex Engineering-to-Order Multiproject Manufacturing Environments
November 17, 2009	Elena Fernández,Department of Statistics and Operations Research Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Title:The Maximum Dispersion Territory Design Problem
October 29, 2009	Vedat Verter, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada Title: Mitigation of Hazardous Materials Transport Risk via Road Network Design
August 27, 2009	Jeremie Gallien from MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA Title: Implementing and Evaluating a New Distribution Control System for Zara
July 17, 2009	Peter Berling from Växjö University, Sweden Title: Optimal Inventory Policies when Purchase Price and Demand are Stochastic
July 15, 2009	Ananth Iyer from Purdue University Title: Spare Parts Supply Chain Models at the US Coast Guard
July 6, 2009	Victor DeMiguel from London Business School Title: Efficiency and Coordination in a Supply Chain with Competing Manufacturers and Retailers
July 3, 2009	Margarita Protopappa from the European Business School Title: Interrelating Financial and Operational Performance Measurements in Inventory Theory
May 21, 2009	Mitchell Tseng from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Title: Customization, Mass Customization Research Opportunities and Challenges
March 19, 2009	Amir-Behzad Samii from MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program Title: Effect of Allocation Mechanisms on Capacity Reservation Decision Making
February 27, 2009	George Knox from Tilburg University Title: Using Complaints to Predict and Value Customers
January 28, 2009	Sebastian Pokutta from KDB Krall Demmel Baumgarten Title: Computational Methods in Production Planning and Logistics
January 19, 2009	Fabrizio Salvador from Instituto de Empresa Title: Operational Glitches, Exception Processing and Organizational Reliability: A Contingency-Theoretical View
December 11, 2008	Serguei Netessine from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Title: Is Reliability a Curse? Outsourcing Restoration Services for Infrequent High-Impact Equipment Failures
November 26, 2008	Michael Ketzenberg from Mays Business School at Texas A & M University Title: Value of Information for Unattended Points of Sale
November 25, 2008	Sven Axsäter from Lund University, Sweden Title: Inventory Control When the Lead-time Changes
October 29, 2008	Amrou Awaysheh from Instituto de Empresa Title: Socially Responsible Practices in Operations and Supply Management
October 7, 2008	Silvio Hamacher and Luiz Felipe Scavarda from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Title: Strategic Planning of an Oil Supply Chain
September 26, 2008	Pedro Alonso from University of Barcelona
July 16, 2008	Rhoit Verma from the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University Title: Scripting the Service Encounter
July 14, 2008	Dmitry Krass from Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto Title: Facility location, capacity allocation and pricing under spatial equilibrium
July 11, 2008	Kyle Hyndman from the Department of Economics at the Southern Methodist University Title: Learning, Belief Formation & Strategic Teaching in Games
July 10, 2008	Ana Muriel from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Title: Impact of Consumer Behavior on the Profitability of Remanufactured Products
July 8, 2008	Fernando Bernstein from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University Title: Managing Operational Risks in Decentralized Supply Chains
July 7, 2008	Canan Ulu from the McCombs School of Business at UT-Austin Title: The Flip Side of the Innovator´s Dilemma: Technology Adoption Decisions with Uncertain Improvements
April 11, 2008	M. Theodore Farris II from the University of North Texas Title: Solutions to Strategic Supply Chain Mapping
March 12, 2008	Victor Martínez de Albéniz from IESE Business School Title: Competing for Shelf Space
December 19, 2007	Jan Fransoo from Department of Technology Management at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven Title: Research Overview at the Department of Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
December 11, 2007	Yehuda Bassok from Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California Title: Inventory Assortment and Substitution Problems
November 20, 2007	Oli madsen from Centre for Traffic and Transport at the Technical University of Denmark Title: Time Window Constrained Vehicle Routing Problems-Survey and Recent Developments
October 26, 2007	Çagri Haksöz from Cass Business School at City University of London Title: Supply Contract Fragility Risk
October 23, 2007	Joseph Blackburn from Vanderbilt University Title: Valuing Time in the Supply Chain: Using a Product´s Marginal Cost of Time to Drive Supply Chain Design
October 10, 2007	Emre Berk from Bilkent University at Ankara, Turkey Title: Stochastic Joint Replenishment Problem: Single Location and Multi-Echelon Models for Non-perishables
September 14, 2007	Kalyan Talluri from the Department of Economica and Business at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Title: On Upper Bounds for Network Revenue Management
June 22, 2007	Al ex Grasas, PhD Candidate from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Florida Title: Product Assortment and Return Policy
June 7, 2007	Jens O. Riis from Center for Industrial Production at Aalborg University Title: The Interactive Firm-Towards a New Paradigm. A framework for the strategic positioning of the industrial company of the future
April 27, 2007	Nils Rudi from INSEAD Title: A base stock inventory model with possibility of rushing part of order End-of-period vs. continuous accounting of inventory related costs
March 23, 2007	Ana Meca from Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain Title: Inventory Games: A repeated cost allocation scheme for dynamic realization games