This summer, ODT was proud to host guest scholars for the 2019 Behavioral Operations Symposium.

The goal of the symposium was to bring speakers who would provide an overview of the variety of work being done in Behavioral Operations Management. Overall, the morning’s speakers centered on studying how people think of probabilities and how they solve scheduling and queueing-related problems, while the afternoon speakers focused on testing game-theoretical predictions in supply chain settings. Besides testing different types of theories and studying different behavioral drivers, there is a broad variety of applications to experimental work—ranging from healthcare to sustainability.

Morning Session (Probabilities, Scheduling- and Queuing- Problems)

• Jordan Tong (University of Wisconson – Madison): “The effects of occupancy information hurdles and physician admission decision noise on hospital unit utilization”
• Mirko Kremer (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany): “Mismanaging the quality-speed tradeoff in congested environments”
• Dan Feiler (Dartmouth College): “Mismanaging risk in conjunctive projects: experimental evidence”
  

  

 

Afternoon Session (Game-Theoretical Predictions in Supply Chain)

• Andrew Davis (Cornell University): “Supply chain contract design under transshipments: an experimental investigation”
• Karen Zheng (MIT): “Consumers’ trust in social responsibility disclosure: the role of supply chain visibility”
• Anyan Qi (University of Texas – Dallas): “Procurement for assembly under asymmetric information: theory and evidence”

Special thanks also to faculty organizers Ruth Beer and Asa Palley!