ISOM Newsletter
March 9, 2016
Winter 2016 e-Newsletter
DEPARTMENT NEWS | FACULTY NEWS | PUBLICATIONS | CONFERENCES
SEMINAR SERIES | DOCTORAL PROGRAM | MSIS PROGRAM
MSCM PROGRAM | STUDENT CLUBS | VISITING GUEST | SPOTLIGHT SEGMENT
DEPARTMENT NEWS
| The ISOM Doctoral Curriculum Committee undertook a major effort over the past two years to revise and improve the PhD curriculum. Major revisions to the curriculum have been made to better reflect the state of the art in research, in additional, the student paper requirement has been reinforced and the area exam format and requirements have been revised. As a part of these changes ISOM will now offer a number or rotating seminar courses focused on bringing cutting-edge research topics to the students. Furthermore, starting in Autumn 2016, a new course: OPMGT 590: Stochastic Models for Research in Business and Management, will be offered on an annual basis. This new course is a required course in both IS and OM programs. The course covers foundations of stochastic processes and is aimed at Doctoral students across Foster who are interested in pursuing quantitative modeling research. | |
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| The Information Systems & Operations Management department gathered on March 4, 2016 for the Winter Quarter Happy Hour held at the beautiful Intellectual House. | |
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| Prof. HAMED MAMANI invited Dave Clark, a senior VP of Global Operations at Amazon, as a guest speaker for his OPMGT 579 course on February 24, 2016. Mr. Clark gave the students insight to Amazon’s Prime Now and Amazon’s Flex supply chain and logistics innovations. After the seminar, Mr. Clark graciously answered student questions about Amazon. |
FACULTY NEWS
| FOAD IRAVANI | Prof. Iravani was awarded the Winter 2016 Professor of the Quarter Award by the full-time MBA class of 2017. |
| MICHAEL WAGNER | Prof. Wagner’s paper “Production Cost Functions and Demand Uncertainty Effects in Price-Only Contracts,” was selected for Honorable Mention designation in the IIE Transactions focused issue on Design and Manufacturing Best Paper Award Competition for 2016. |
| SHAOSONG OU | Prof. Ou led the South Africa study tour over the spring break, with twelve day and evening MBA students. They traveled to Johannesburg and Cape Town for two weeks to visit companies, meet fellow South African MBA students, and immerse in exciting cultural explorations, including a visit to the Kruger National Park, pictured below. |
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PUBLICATIONS
| FACULTY PUBLICATIONS |
| SHI CHEN and H. Lee. (March 2016) Incentive Alignment and Coordination of Project Supply Chain. Management Science. Retrieved from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2373 |
| FOAD IRAVANI, S. Dasu, and R. Ahmadi. (February 2016) Beyond Price Mechanisms: How Much Can Service Help Manage the Competition from Gray Markets? European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 252(3), 789-800. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.02.006 |
CONFERENCES | INVITED TALKS | RESEARCH
| HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES (HICSS) Kauai, HI | January 5 – 8, 2016 |
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| DEB DEY | Presented his paper entitled “Versioning of Video Games: Go Vertical in a Horizontal Market,” co-authored by A. Lahiri. |
| THEORY IN ECONOMIC OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS (TEIS) Guanacaste, Costa Rica | March 18 – 21, 2016 |
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| DEB DEY and ANTINO KIM (PhD) attended the 2016 TEIS Conference. Mr. Kim was invited to serve as a discussant for a paper entitled “Manipulating Reviews in Dark Net Markets to Reduce Crime.” |
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| MING FAN |
Attended the SAP Academic Conference in San Diego on February 17, 2016 to learn the latest trend in the ERP market and innovations in curriculum development. This year’s theme was “Building the Talent of the Future for the Digital Enterprise.”
Prof. Fan also attended an invitation only research workshop hosted by Arizona State University on February 25, 2016. He presented a paper on seller strategies at an online marketplace. |
| APURVA JAIN |
Presented his paper entitled “Operational Responses to a Demand Surge” at the ISOM Annual Research Workshop hosted by the University of Florida on February 26, 2016. The workshop is focused on research at the interface of information systems, operations and supply chain management, and marketing. |
| MASHA SHUNKO | Attended the invitation only Utah Winter Operations Conference on February 4, 2016. The annual conference brings together Operations Management scholars from around the world to attend academic presentations. |
| YONG-PIN ZHOU | Presented his paper entitled, “Inventory Stocking and Rationing for an Omni-Channel Retailer” at Western Washington University on February 26, 2016. |
SEMINAR SERIES
| January 8, 2016 VISHAL AGRAWAL Georgetown University | Operations Management TITLE: Extended Producer Responsibility and Secondary Markets |
| January 15, 2016 ALOK GUPTA University of Minnesota | Information Systems TITLE: Information Transparency in B2B Auction Markets: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| January 29, 2016 GUILLAUME ROELS UCLA | Operations Management TITLE: Win-Win Capacity Allocation Contracts in Co-Production and Co-Distribution Alliances |
| February 5, 2016 DHARMA KWON University of Illinois | Operations Management TITLE: The Impact of Uncertainty, Learning, and Competition in a War of Attrition |
| February 12, 2016 GAD ALLON Northwestern University | Operations Management TITLE: Managing Service Systems in the Presence of Social Networks |
| February 19, 2016 SABY MITRA Georgia Tech | Information Systems TITLE: An Empirical Investigation of Confirmation Bias in Online Word of Mouth |
| March 4, 2016 SHI CHEN University of Washington | Operations Management TITLE: Inventory Control and Delivery Quotation for Supply Chains with Prefabrication or Modularization |
DOCTORAL PROGRAM
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CONGRATULATIONS MOHSEN SHARIFANI!
Mohsen has accepted a Senior Pricing Analyst position at Sears Holding Inc. in San Francisco. |
| SAREH NABI-ABDOLYOUSEFI passed her qualifying exam on January 22, 2016. | |
| MOHSEN SHARIFANI successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Production Planning, Pricing and Marking Coordination for New Vendor Problem with Price Dependent Demand” on March 4, 2016. | |
| HAOYAN SUN passed her general examination on February 25, 2016. Her presentation was entitled “An Empirical Analysis of Online Marketplace Seller Tactics.” |
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| The PhD students gathered on February 22, 2016 at Joey’s Kitchen to enjoy American cuisine and good company. |
MSIS PROGRAM
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The MSIS Program held its first Case Competition with Accenture on March 12, 2016. Students had 48 hours to study the case and create solutions to present to a panel of judges comprised of Information Systems industry leaders from Costco and Accenture along with Foster faculty. |
MSCM PROGRAM
The Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) Program is off to a great start! The admission process wrapped up in March with a very strong pool of applicants. MSCM looks forward to welcoming the inaugural cohort of students at Orientation Weekend in June.
An MSCM Advisory Board is being established to provide guidance, grow and strengthen relationships with member organizations, and create program ambassadors in the business community. MSCM is excited to welcome the following new members:
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| Ann Ardizzone | Vice President, Supply Chain & Risk Management | Alaska Airlines |
| Dave Clark | Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations and Customer Service | Amazon |
| Kent Fisher | VP of Supplier Management for Commercial Airplanes | The Boeing Company |
| Bill Jackson | Vice President of Global Purchasing | PACCAR, Inc. |
| Gary Kotzen | Vice President, Global Sourcing | Costco |
MSCM is also thrilled to be collaborating with the Global Business Center to offer a supply chain study tour to Asia during the 2016 – 2017 academic year. This joint study tour will be open to Foster MSCM and MBA students.
STUDENT CLUBS
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| Pictured (left to right): Team Coach- Theresa Maloney, UW Team: David Yuan, Aysha Aijaz, Brian Moran |
| BITS sent a team of three to compete in the 2016 Competition on Management Information Systems (CoMIS) in Minneapolis, MN on March 30 – April 2, 2016. Sixteen teams were chosen to represent their schools in this 24-hour case competition. The UW Foster School team, consisting of Aysha Aijaz, Brian Moran, and David Yuan was tasked with addressing a virtual team challenge for the medical device company Medtronic. The case asked them to consider the role of technology in a real world business problem faced by Medtronic’s global teams. The Foster School team competed against students from across the U.S., including students from five of the top 10 ranked Information Systems programs. Through their strong presentation skills and thoughtful recommendation, the UW team advanced to the lightening round where they and two other teams answered case related questions in front of their peers and a panel of judges. The team did not advance to the final, but impressed other teams and coaches with their ability to confidently and articulately think on their feet. Besides their strong showing in the competition, Brian, Aysha, and David connected with their peers, networked with Minneapolis professionals, and had the opportunity to visit 3M and General Mills.
– story by Theresa Maloney, Program Manager at UW Global Business Center |
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Operations & Supply Chain Management Club |
The OSCM Club organized two field trips during the Winter Quarter:
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VISITING GUEST
VISITING INTERNATIONAL SCHOLAR |
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YOUWEI WANG is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Management and Information Systems at Fudan University in China. His research focus is in big data collected from China and is aimed at generating managerial insights on how different policies affect the demand and supply sides in online marketplace and how to improve the performance of online businesses. His research has been published in academic journals such as IEEE Transactions, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and Decision Support Systems to name a few. Prof. Yong Tan will serve as his sponsor for the next year and they are currently working on a few research projects in the fields of e-commerce and mobile commerce. |
SPOTLIGHT SEGMENT
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MASHA SHUNKO is one of our newest Assistant Professor’s at the Information Systems and Operations Management Department at the Foster School of Business. Prof. Shunko brings a blend of industry experience from Deloitte headquarters in Tallinn Estonia and academic experience from Purdue University. Spring 2016 marks her first teaching quarter at Foster so we decided to sit down and find out a little more about Prof. Shunko. |
| QUESTION: What do you look forward to the most during your first quarter at Foster? MS: Interaction with students! I actually look forward to it at the beginning of each quarter: I am always excited to meet new students, learn about their experiences, and their viewpoints. To simply figure out how operations knowledge can fit to complement their education in the best way. |
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| QUESTION: Describe your philosophy of teaching. MS: My goal in teaching is to instill passion for learning and for solving problems for students. There is never enough time to teach everyone everything they need to know in my class, so leaving the students with proper basics, the desire to learn more, and the skills to do it is the way to ensure they will get to where they want to be. |
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| QUESTION: What has been the biggest difference between West Lafayette and Seattle? MS: Wait, are you asking what is the difference between a village in the Midwest and a city on the West Coast? What is the difference between being surrounded by corn fields and being surrounded by mountains and water? What is the difference between a 5-minute commute and an hour commute? That’s a tough one 🙂 |
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| QUESTION: What is one of your favorite quotes? MS: “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” |
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| QUESTION: If it was possible, where would you go in a time machine? Why? MS: I would take my family with me and go back to see my grandmother who unfortunately did not get a chance to meet my kids or my husband. I would also love to take her back with me in the time machine to show her the beauties of our new home city in the Pacific Northwest. |
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