ISOM Newsletter

June 9, 2015

Spring 2015 e-Newsletter

DEPARTMENT NEWS | FACULTY NEWS | AWARDS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCES
SEMINAR SERIES | DOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAM | STUDENT CLUBS


DEPARTMENT NEWS

ISOM Faculty, Staff, PhD students, Visiting Scholars, and VISIT students gathered on May 29, 2015 for their quarterly lunch hosted at the UW Club.
ERNST & YOUNG SUPPORT FOR THE ISOM DEPARTMENT
NATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS CASE COMPETITION:
With EY’s sponsorship, the ISOM Department is able to promote and recruit students to represent the University of Washington at a national competition in 2015-2016. This funding renews an opportunity EY started last academic year for our students.
BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY (BITS):
Working in Information Systems has become a top career option for Foster School students. EY’s support will be used to advance the ISOM Department with a specific focus on sponsoring BITS. This sponsorship will also help our department host an end-of-year banquet for IS students.
NEW STAFF
SARA JONES has been hired as the MSCM Academic Program Director (Master of Science in Supply Chain Management). She is joining us from the Technology Management MBA Program, where she was most recently the Associate Director of Recruiting and Admissions. Sara brings over a decade of higher education experience spanning all facets of program management – from marketing and admissions to program operations, student services and alumni relations. The first MSCM class in this program will be Summer 2016.

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FACULTY NEWS

HAMED
MAMANI
Prof. Mamani has been awarded the inaugural Premera Faculty Professorship, which provides strategic supports in areas that advance efforts to enhance access, affordability and quality of healthcare through identification and application of best business practices.
MICHAEL
WAGNER
Prof. Wagner was awarded the Neal and Jan Dempsey Fellowship.
YONG-PIN ZHOU Prof. Zhou was amongst those recognized by the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal as a 2014 Meritorious Service Award recipient for his outstanding editorial service.

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FOSTER TEACHING AWARDS

MARK HILLIER
Spring 2015 MBA Professor of the Quarter (Class 2015)
FOAD IRAVANI
Winter 2015 MBA Professor of the Quarter (Class 2016)
APURVA JAIN
Winter 2015 Undergraduate Teaching Professor of the Quarter (ISOM)
HAMED MAMANI
Autumn 2014 Undergraduate Teaching Professor of the Quarter (ISOM)
SHAOSONG OU
Undergraduate Faculty of the Year (ISOM)
ANDY SIEGEL
Ron Crockett Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
EMBA: Robert M. Bowen Excellence in Teaching Award (Regional Class 31)
EMBA: Robert M. Bowen Excellence in Teaching Award (North America 16)
Winter 2015 UG Teaching Professor of the Quarter (Finance & Bus. Econ.)
ERICH STUDER-ELLIS
GEMBA Excellence in Teaching Award (Class 4)
YONG TAN
PhD Outstanding Mentor Award (ISOM)
YONG-PIN ZHOU
GEMBA Excellence in Teaching Award (Class 4)

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PUBLICATIONS

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
APURVA JAIN, KAMRAN MOINZADEH, and A. Dumrongsiri. (Spring 2015). Priority Allocation in a Rental Model with Decreasing Demand. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Volume 17(2), 236-248.
FOAD IRAVANI, HAMED MAMANI, and R. Zhmadi. (May 2015) Coping with Gray Markets: The Impact of Market Conditions and Product Characteristics. Production and Operations Management, Volume 24(5), 762-777.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
SHI CHEN and H. Lee. Incentive Alignment and Coordination of Project Supply Chain. Management Science.
YONG-PIN ZHOU, N. Gans, H. Shen, N. Korolev, A. McCord, and H. Ristock. Parametric Forecasting and Stochastic Programming Models for Call-Center Workforce Scheduling. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

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CONFERENCES | INVITED TALKS | RESEARCH

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
Washington, D.C. | May 8 – 11, 2015
FOAD
IRAVANI
Presented his paper (co-authored by HAMED MAMANI) entitled: Supply Chain Coordination in the Presence of Gray Markets and Strategic Consumers. Prof. Iravani also served as a chair for a Supply Chain Management session.
ELNAZ
JALILIPOUR
ALISHAH
(PhD student) presented twice at the 26th annual conference:
The Impact of Competition for Common Customer Base on Agent’s Compensation Plan, co-authored by YONG-PIN ZHOU and HAMED MAMANI.
Incentive Issues in Omni-Channel Sale, co-authored by YONG-PIN ZHOU.
INVITED TALKS | RESEARCH
SHI
CHEN
  • Prof. Chen was invited to give a talk at Santa Clara University on April 24, 2015. The title of his seminar was “Incentive Alignment and Coordination of Project Supply Chains.”
  • Prof. Chen also met with Stanford colleagues and visited a senior supply chain manager at Tesla Corporation regarding on-going research projects during his visit to Silicon Valley.
MICHAEL
WAGNER
Prof. Wagner attended the Ernst & Young Academic Resource Center (EYARC) Colloquium held in Dallas, Texas to research data analytics in accounting for the new “Data Analytics” elective course that he and colleague HAMED MAMANI are developing for the MBA program.

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SEMINAR SERIES

 

ASHISH AGARWAL
University of Texas, Austin | Information Systems
TITLE: The Impact of Platform Integration on Consumer Demand in Complementary Markets: Evidence from Facebook’s Integration of Instagram
I-FU ‘Tony’ CHEN
University of Washington | Operations Management
TITLE: On Coordinating Contracts in Serial Decentralized Projects
VISHAL GAUR
Cornell University | Operations Management
TITLE: Operational Investment and Capital Structure Under Asset-Based Lending
BIN GU
Arizona State University | Information Systems
TITLE: The Effect of Social Interactions on Product Sales in Social Shopping on the Internet
TIM HUH
University of British Columbia | Operations Management
TITLE: Pricing under the Nested Attraction Model with a Multi-stage Choice Structure
DAN IANCU
Stanford | Operations Management
TITLE: Operationalizing Financial Covenants
KEVIN SHANG
Duke University | Operations Management
TITLE: Working Capital Management: Integration of Material and Financial Flows for Inventory Systems
PRASANNA TAMBE
New York University | Information Systems
TITLE: Poaching and Retention in High-Tech Labor Markets
MICHAEL WAGNER
University of Washington | Operations Management
TITLE: Crowdvoting Judgment: An Analysis of Modern Peer Review
ZHIQIANG ZHENG
University of Texas, Dallas | Information Systems
TITLE: The Power of Silence: An Analysis of the Reporting Bias in User-Generated Contents

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DOCTORAL PROGRAM

ISOM Department: 2015 PhD Award Recipients
XUE ‘Jane’ TAN: 2015 Doctoral Student Excellence in Research
ELNAZ JALILIPOUR ALISHAH: 2015 Doctoral Student Excellence in Teaching
SHIMA NASSIRI received the 2015 Foster School of Business Dean’s Achievement Award in Research. Dean Jim Jiambalvo presented the awards to all the recipients on May 20, 2015 during a reception held in Anthony’s Forum.
I-FU ‘Tony’ CHEN passed his general exam on May 18, 2015.
His presentation was entitled “The Impact of Incentive Contracts on Serial Stochastic Projects.”
ELNAZ JALILIPOUR ALISHAH passed her general exam on May 29, 2015.
Her presentation was entitled “Essays on Omni-Channel Fulfillment.
BEHNAZ GHAHESTANI BOJD and JINYANG ZHENG passed their qualifying exam on May 26, 2015  in the area of Information Systems.

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MSIS PROGRAM

Congratulations to the graduates of the Foster MSIS Program! The Class of 2015 celebrated graduation with their family and friends on June 5, 2015. MSIS welcomed Paul Moulton, Executive VP and CIO of Costco Wholesale, as the keynote speaker and student Price Hardman gave the remarks on behalf of his peers. The MSIS Student Merit Award went to Sana Ayan while Professor Yong Tan and Antino Kim were awarded the MSIS Teaching Award as voted by the MSIS Class of 2015.

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STUDENT CLUBS

Business Information Technology Society
BITS

The inaugural Information Systems Banquet was held on May 28, 2015 at the UW Bank of America Building and was well attended by Information Systems students, faculty, and professionals. Two keynote speakers delivered powerful and insightful speeches. The first speaker was Gilad Berenstein, founder and CEO of Utrip – a Seattle startup that has been gaining a lot of traction. His speech focused on the “Startup Mentality,” what it takes and how he got there, which he proved recently when Mr. Berenstein was presented with the “2015 Geekwire Award for Young Entrepreneur of the Year.” The second speech was delivered by Kelly Burke, an EY Risk Assurance Executive Director. Her empowering speech centered around “A Day in the Life of an IS Professional.” Ms. Burke stressed the importance of a hard work ethic, what motivates her, why she loves her job, and how she empowers her team around her. After the keynote speeches, Shannon Ong, President of BITS, made a few concluding statements and opened the floor up for networking.

– story by Shannon Ong, BITS President

Operations & Supply Chain Management Club
OSCM CLUB

Spring 2015 quarter marked the revival of the Operations & Supply Chain Management Club. Since the induction of new leadership in March, OSCM held eight networking and information meetings with companies recognized for supply chain excellence, including Carlisle Interconnect Technologies, Boeing, Best Buy Asia, Ericsson, and Honeywell Aerospace. Perhaps OSCM’s most beneficial and eye-opening events were field trips to see supply chain operations systems at work in Carlisle, Boeing and Honeywell’s manufacturing facilities.

The OSCM Club has success stories already, like junior David Selover, who got his summer internship with Carlisle’s highly competitive supply chain leadership program by networking at OSCM’s events. To quote Clay Schwenn, Assistant Director of Student Leadership & Development at Foster, OSCM came back “like a phoenix rising from the ashes.” If this first quarter is any indication, OSCM isn’t just rising; it’s flying.

– story by Sarah Ma, OSCM Club President

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