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Schedule of speakers in previous academic years

2011-2012

Date Speaker Key Areas of Expertise

Oct. 7/11
Vedat Verter, Ph.D

Professor of Operations Management

Director, NSERC CREATE Program in Healthcare Operations & Information Management, Co-Director, McGill MD-MBA Program

Supply chain design, reverse logistics, transportation of hazardous materials and healthcare operations management.

Oct. 21/11
Nicola Secomandi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University Interfaces with operations and supply chain management; e.g., storage/capacity valuation and the stochastic vehicle routing problem.

Nov. 11/11
Ananth Raman, Ph.D
UPS Foundation Professor of Business Logistics in the Harvard Business School Supply chain coordination for products with uncertain demand.

Nov. 18/11
James Gray-Donald, Ph.D

Associate VP, Sustainability Leader at Sears Canada
Sustainability

Dec. 9/11
V. Daniel Guide, Ph. D

Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management

Charles and Lillian Binder Faculty Fellow in Penn Stat's Dept. of Supply Chain & Information Systems

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Operations Managment
Closed-loop supply chain management, sustainable supply chain

Feb. 10/12

DAWB 2-106

Cheryl Gaimon, Ph.D

Regents' Professor of Operations Management and holder of the
Richard and Carol Kalikow Professorship at the Georgia Institute of Technology (College of Management) The interplay between technology management and inter-firm alliances.

Feb. 24/12

SBE 1210

Mehmet Gumus, Ph.D

Assistant Professor, Operations Management Area

Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University
"The Application of Signaling and Screening Games in Supply Chain Risk Management".

Mar. 9/12

SBE 1210

Michael Carter, Ph.D
Professor, Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto.
Healthcare industry: modeling, process improvement, decision support tools for policy, scheduling, simulation, system dynamics.

Mar. 16/12

Schlegel Centre - Ernst & Young Boardroom

Vish Krishnan

Rady School of Management, University of California at San Diego

Mar. 30/12

P2067

Zvi Drezner, Ph.D
Professor, Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton. Facility location

Apr. 13/12

SBE 1230

Anil Arya, Ph.D
John J. Gerlach Chair in Accounting and Professor of Accounting & MIS and (by courtesy) Economics in the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University Interface of accounting and supply chain management (co-editor of a future special issue of the accounting interface with Production and Operations Management).

Apr. 27/12

SBE 1230

Bruce Golden, Ph.D

France-Merrick Chair in Management Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland
Editor-in-Chief, Networks Decision & Information Technologies Logistics, distribution, and vehicle routing.

NOTE: All presentations will be held at Wilfrid Laurier University's main campus in Waterloo.

Fall 2010

Date Speaker Key Areas of Expertise
Location

OCTOBER

Oct. 1

G. Don Taylor, Ph.D., P.E.
Charles O. Gordon Professor and Department Head; Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Virginia Institute of Technology

Logistics systems and truckload operations
SBE1240

Oct. 8

Mark Ferguson, Ph.D.
Steven A. Denning Professor of Technology and Management and the John and Wendi Wells Associate Professor of Operations Management, Georgia Institute of Technology

Closed loop supply chains; supply chain design for sustainable operations

SBE1240

Oct. 29 Yoshinori Suzuki, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Logistics & Supply Chain Management;
Jacobson Companies Fellow in Transportation and Logistics;
College of Business, Iowa State University Carrier management; driver management; fuel optimization models
SBE1240

NOVEMBER

Nov. 12

Gilvan Souza, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Reverse logistics; closed-loop supply chains; remanufacturing; technology management
SBE1240

Nov. 26 Paul Larson, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head (Department of Supply Chain Management) and Director of the Transport Institute, University of Manitoba
Purchasing; transportation; logistics; supply chain interfaces within organizations
SBE1240

DECEMBER

Dec. 10

Mark Daskin, Ph.D.
Clyde W. Johnson Collegiate Professor and Chair: Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
Operations research techniques in supply chain management, transportation, facility location, and healthcare
SBE1240

WINTER 2011

Date Speaker Key Areas of Expertise
Location

FEBRUARY

Feb. 4

Oded Berman, Ph.D.
Sydney Cooper Chair in Business & Technology: Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto

Facility location; design of logistics and supply chain networks

SBE1230

Feb. 23

Morris Cohen, Ph.D.
Panasonic Professor of Manufacturing and Logistics; Professor of Operations and Information Management and Systems Engineering; Co-Director, Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management, The Wharton School
Service supply chain strategy; supply chain coordination, contracts, and incentives; supply chain interfaces; benchmarking; procurement
Ernst & Young Boardroom

MARCH

March 4

Armann Ingolfsson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management Science, University of Alberta School of Business
Operations management emergency medical services, workforce scheduling, and queueing systems
SBE1230

March 18
Marc Goetschalckx, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Global supply chain management issues such as transfer pricing
SBE1230

APRIL

April 1

Vedat Verter, Ph.D.
Professor of Operations Management; Director, NSERC CREATE Program in Healthcare Operations & Information Management, Co-Director, McGill MD-MBA Program
Supply chain design, reverse logistics, transportation of hazardous materials and healthcare operations management SBE1230

April 15

Elena Katok, Ph.D.
Calvin E. and Pamala T. Zimmerman University Endowed Fellow and Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University

Production and inventory management; Experimental economics to investigate factors that affect cooperative and competitive behavior SBE1230

April 29
Arnold Maltz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
Trans-border supply chain issues such as the impact of international borders SBE1230

WINTER 2010

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
FEBRUARY
Feb. 12 Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. P. Fraser Johnson UWO	The Problem with Supply Savings	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
Feb. 26 Noon - 1:30 pm	Saif Benjaafar UMN	Carbon Footprint and the Management of Supply Chains: Insights from Simple Models	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
MARCH
Mar. 12 11:30 am - 1 pm	Jeannette Song Duke	Cost-Sharing Contracts for Coordinating Semi-Centralized Global Production Networks	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
APRIL
Apr. 5 12:30 pm - 2 pm	Prof. Binton Chen, University of Delaware	Using MSRP to Enhance the Ability of Rebates to Control Distribution Channels	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
Apr. 16 12:30pm - 2pm	Steven Melnyk, Michigan State University	Emerging Issues in Supply Chain Management: Identifying the Future of Supply Chain Management Research and Practice	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
OCTOBER
Oct. 2 1 pm - 4pm	TBD	TBD	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
Oct. 16 10 am - 1 pm	Hamidreza Faramarzi, A.B.M Wilfrid Laurier University	Optional Coordination and Joint Pricing Decisions in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
Oct. 30 10 am - 1 pm	Hamdi Noori Wilfrid Laurier University	TBD	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
NOVEMBER
Nov. 13 10 am - 1pm	Dan Guide, PSU	TBD	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
Nov. 27	Anming Ahang	TBD	TBD
DECEMBER
Dec. 11 9 am - 12 pm	David Dilts Vanderbilt, Oregon	TBD	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)

Winter 2009

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
FEBRUARY
Feb. 13, 2009 12 noon - 2:00 p.m.	Mary R. Brooks - Dalhousie	North American Freight Transportation: The road to security and prosperity (Abstract)	SBE 3220 (Ernst & Young Board Room)
MARCH
March 6, 2009 10:00 - 12:00	Fernando Bernstein - Duke	The Role of Component Commonality in Product Assortment Decisions (Abstract)	P2027
March 20, 2009 10:30 - 1:50 pm	Karen Donohue -University of Minnesota	A Behavioral Investigation of Service-Based Supplier Competitions (Abstract)	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
APRIL
April 3, 2009 12:00 - 1:30 pm	Gilbert Laporte - HEC Montréal	Metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem (Abstract)	Ernst & Young Boardroom (SBE3220)
May 8, 2009 11:30 - 1:00	Charles Corbett - UCLA	Extending the horizons: Green supply chains as driver of operational excellence (Abstract)	SBE1230

Fall 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
OCTOBER
Oct. 3, 2008 12 noon	Clay Whybark - Macon G. Patton Distinguished Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation Management (OTIM) - UNC	Emerging Considerations in Supply Chain Management (Abstract)	SBE 3220 (Ernst & Young Board Room)
NOVEMBER
Nov. 7, 2008 12 noon	Zhe George Zhang - Professor, Operations Research and Management - Western Washington University	Does Pricing Some Lanes Improve Customer Service?(Powerpoint Presentation)	P2007
Nov. 14, 2008 1-3 pm (note time change)	Peruvemba Ravi, Associate Professor (ODS), School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University	Scheduling a Set of Jobs on Parallel Machines to Minimize Weighted Flow Times (Abstract)	P1021 (note room change)
Nov. 28, 2008 12 noon	Mike Magazine - UCin	Healthcare Supply Chains	SBE 1210

Fall 2007

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
October 12, 2007 11:00 a.m.	Thomas Y. Choi, John G. & Barbara A. Bebbling Professor in Business, Arizona State University	Supply Chain Design (Abstract) Supply Chain Design (Presentation)	SBE1230
October 19, 2007	Sapna Isotupa, Associate Professor, School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University	Comparison of Inventory Polilcies (Abstract) Inventory Systems with Multiple Classes of Customers (Presentation)	SBE1230
Nov. 16, 2007 11:00 a.m.	David Gillen, Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia	Shipping Trends and Landside Responses: The Challenge of Logistics in and Through Gateways (Abstract) Shipping Trends and Landside Responses: The Challenge of Logistics in and Through Gateways (Presentation)	SBE1230
Nov. 30, 2007 11:00 a.m.	Xuan Zhao, Assistant Professor (ODS), Wilfrid Laurier University	Inventory Competition for Newsvendors Under the Profit (and Revenue) Satisficing Objective (Abstract) Inventory Competition for Newsvendors Under Target Based Decision Making (Presentation)	SBE1230
Dec. 7, 2007 11:00 a.m.	Peter Bell, Professor, Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario	Linking the Firm's Supply-Chain Decision-Making to its Strategic and Tactical Decisions (Abstract) Linking the Firm's Supply-Chain Decision-Making to its Strategic and Tactical Decisions (Presentation)	SBE1230
Dec. 13, 2007 11:30 a.m.	Terry Taylor, Associate Professor, Hass School of Business, UC Berkeley	Green Production through Competitive Testing (Abstract)	SBE1230

Winter 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
March 14, 2008 1:00 p.m.	Victor Shi, Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University	"A Quantitative Model for the Setting of Profit Target" (Abstract) (Presentation)	SBE1210
March 28, 2008 1:00 p.m.	Ignacio Castillo, Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University	"To Pickup or Not to Pickup: Where? is the Actual Question!" (Abstract)	SBE1230
April 11, 2008 1:00 p.m.	Kevin Hendricks, Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University	Demand-Supply Mismatch and Stock Market Reaction: Evidence from Excess Inventory Announcements. (Abstract) (Presentation)	SBE1230
April 25, 2008 1:00 p.m.	Paul Zipkin, Professor, Duke University	"Inventories with Multiple Supply Sources and Networks of Queues with Overflow Bypasses" (Abstract) (Paper) (Presentation)	SBE1230
May 2, 2008 11:00 a.m.	Morgan Swink, Professor, Michigan State	Diagnosing Greatness: Competencies of Leading Supply Chain Companies" (Abstract) (Presentation)

Winter 2008

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
January 27, 2006 11:30 a.m.	James Bookbinder Professor Director of WATMIMS (Centre for Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems) University of Waterloo	Perspectives on International Logistics	SBE1230
February 17, 2006 11:30 a.m.	David Simchi-Levi Professor of Engineering Systems MIT Director of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation Editor-in-Chief of Operations Research	Impact of Offshoring on the Global Supply Chain	SBE1230
March 17, 2006 11:30 a.m.	Muthu Natesan Senior Consultant Cognizant Technology Solutions	Impact of RFID on Supply Chain Management and Beyond	SBE1230
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Fall 2005

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
September 30, 2005 11 a.m.	Derek Atkins E.D. MacPhee Professor of Management Sauder School of Business UBC	Outsourcing and Coordination in Competitive Supply Chains: some observations from theory	SBE1230
October 14, 2005 11 a.m.	Gilbert Laporte Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management HEC Montreal	Transportation Planning: problems, methods and challenges	SBE1230
October 28, 200511 a.m.	Vinod Singhal Professor College of Management Georgia Institute of Technology	Supply Chain Disruptions and Corporate Performance	SBE1230
November 11, 200511 a.m.	Xuan Zhao Assistant Professor School of Business & Economics Wilfrid Laurier University	When Competitors Agree to Cooperate: the Case of Transshipment in Supply Chains	SBE1230
November 25, 200511 a.m.	Opher Baron Assistant Professor Rotman School of Management University of Toronto	Facility Location with Stochastic Demand and Constraints on Waiting Time	SBE1230

Spring 2005

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
March 18, 2005 3:30 – 5 p.m.	Dr. Charles Wang School of Management State University of New York - Buffalo	Loss Aversion in the Newsvendor Problem and Supply Chains	SBE3245
April 18, 2005 11 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.	Dr. Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez, School of Administrative Studies Atkinson College York University	Assessing the Effect of Information Systems Practices in Purchasing on Internal Customer Satisfaction in Quality-Oriented Manufacturing Firms: A Structural Model	SBE3245
May 20, 2005 11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m	Dr. Sapna Isotupa Assistant Professor (ODS) School of Business & Economics Wilfrid Laurier University	Comparison of Three Continuous Review (s,Q) Inventory Systems with Two Types of Customers	SBE3245
May 27, 2005 9 - 10:30 a.m.	Dr. Tamer Boyaci Assistant Professor Faculty of Management McGill University	Information Acquisition for Capacity Planning via Pricing and Advance Selling: When to Stop and Act?	SBE3245

Winter 2005

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
January 7, 2005 11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.	Dr. Mahmut Parlar McMaster University	Value of a Put Option to the Newsvendor with Lexicographically Ordered Objectives	SBE3245
February 4, 2005 11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.	Dr. Janice E. Carrillo Warrington College of Business Administration University of Florida-Gainesville	Sourcing Decisions with Stochastic Supplier Reliability and Stochastic Demand	SBE3245
March 4, 2005 11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.	Dr. Markus Biehl Schulich School of Business York University	The Efficiency of Joint Decision Making in Buyer-Supplier Relationships	SBE3245

Fall 2004

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
September 17, 2004 12 - 1 p.m.	Dr. Shailendra Jha School of Business & Economics Wilfrid Laurier University	Some Results on Supply Chain Rebates and Contracts	SBE3245
October 1, 2004 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Dr. Samir Elhedhli Department of Management Sciences University of Waterloo	Make-To-Order Supply Chain Design for Response Time Sensitive Markets	SBE3245
October 15, 2004 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Dr. Paul E. Doherty Associate Director, Academic Programs, Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (CBET) University of Waterloo	Why ERP Can Fail Engineer-to-Order (ETO) Manufacturers	SBE3245
November 5, 2004 10: - 11:30 a.m.	Dr. P. S. Ravi School of Business & Economics Wilfrid Laurier University	Determining the Impact of System Parameters on a VMI Arrangement	SBE3245
November 19, 2004 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Dr. Chi-Guhn Lee Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Toronto	"A multiple supplier inventory model with random discount offerings"	P2115
November 30, 2004 2:40 - 4 p.m.	Dr. Yunzeng Wang Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University	"Joint Pricing-Production Decisions in Supply Chains of Complementary Products with Uncertain Demand"	P2113

Spring 2004

Date	Speaker	Topic	Location
May 20, 2004 1 - 2:30 p.m.	Dr. Michael Haughton School of Business & Economics Wilfrid Laurier University	An Analysis of the Assignment of Delivery Routes to Drivers in Stochastic Vehicle Routing Operations	SBE2250
July 5, 2004 9:30 - 11 a.m.	Dr. Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez School of Administrative Studies, Atkinson College York University	A Structural Analysis of Strategic Purchasing's Impact on Supplier Development and its effect on Purchasing and Business Performance	SBE1230

Date	Speaker	Key Areas of Expertise
Oct. 7/11	Vedat Verter, Ph.D Professor of Operations Management Director, NSERC CREATE Program in Healthcare Operations & Information Management, Co-Director, McGill MD-MBA Program	Supply chain design, reverse logistics, transportation of hazardous materials and healthcare operations management.
Oct. 21/11	Nicola Secomandi, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University	Interfaces with operations and supply chain management; e.g., storage/capacity valuation and the stochastic vehicle routing problem.
Nov. 11/11	Ananth Raman, Ph.D UPS Foundation Professor of Business Logistics in the Harvard Business School	Supply chain coordination for products with uncertain demand.
Nov. 18/11	James Gray-Donald, Ph.D Associate VP, Sustainability Leader at Sears Canada	Sustainability
Dec. 9/11	V. Daniel Guide, Ph. D Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management Charles and Lillian Binder Faculty Fellow in Penn Stat's Dept. of Supply Chain & Information Systems Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Operations Managment	Closed-loop supply chain management, sustainable supply chain
Feb. 10/12 DAWB 2-106	Cheryl Gaimon, Ph.D Regents' Professor of Operations Management and holder of the Richard and Carol Kalikow Professorship at the Georgia Institute of Technology (College of Management)	The interplay between technology management and inter-firm alliances.
Feb. 24/12 SBE 1210	Mehmet Gumus, Ph.D Assistant Professor, Operations Management Area Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University	"The Application of Signaling and Screening Games in Supply Chain Risk Management".
Mar. 9/12 SBE 1210	Michael Carter, Ph.D Professor, Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto.	Healthcare industry: modeling, process improvement, decision support tools for policy, scheduling, simulation, system dynamics.
Mar. 16/12 Schlegel Centre - Ernst & Young Boardroom	Vish Krishnan Rady School of Management, University of California at San Diego
Mar. 30/12 P2067	Zvi Drezner, Ph.D Professor, Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics at California State University-Fullerton.	Facility location
Apr. 13/12 SBE 1230	Anil Arya, Ph.D John J. Gerlach Chair in Accounting and Professor of Accounting & MIS and (by courtesy) Economics in the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University	Interface of accounting and supply chain management (co-editor of a future special issue of the accounting interface with Production and Operations Management).
Apr. 27/12 SBE 1230	Bruce Golden, Ph.D France-Merrick Chair in Management Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland Editor-in-Chief, Networks Decision & Information Technologies	Logistics, distribution, and vehicle routing.