Schedule

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Wednesday, June 24:  Those arriving early can join us for a walk to a local restaurant Wednesday evening for dinner.  Details of time and place will be determined once a count of early arrivals is arranged.

Thursday, June 25:  Those arriving early are encouraged to walk around the campus and enjoy an early lunch at one of the many restaurants near the School of Management (SOM).

12n-1pm Registration in Whitman School of Management main lobby
1pm-1:30pm Welcome and Logistics
1:30pm-3pm: Dynamics

• Eyran Gisches, University of Arizona, “Dynamic Pricing with Strategic Consumers under Inventory Constraints.”
• Amnon Rapoport, UC Riverside, “Effects of Dynamic Duopoly Competition on Myopic and Strategic Consumers.”
• Anton Ovchinnikov, University of Virginia, “Revenue and Cost Management for Remanufactured Products.”

3pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-5pm Learning and Stability

• Ulrich Thonemann, University of Cologne, “Managers and Students as Newsvendors:  How Out-of-Task Experience Matters.”
• Candido Perez, IESA, “Physicians or Engineers as Supply Chain Managers:  Which is the Best Choice for Hospitals?”
• Kay-Yut Chen, HP, “Temporal Correlation of Lottery Choices and fMRI Imaging.”

Thursday dinner plans are on your own and we will assist in coordinating dinner parties.  There is a wide variety of restaurants for every taste and budget within a block or two of the SOM and Sheraton hotel. 
Interested attendees are invited to attend a minor league baseball game at 7PM and watch the Syracuse Chiefs (affiliate team: Washington Nationals) take on the Scranton/WB Yankees (affiliate team: NY Yankees).    Tickets are $10.  We will likely leave from the SOM around 6:15.  Email Julie at jniederh@syr.edu if you would like to attend the ballgame so we can plan for transportation and tickets. 

Friday, June 26:
Breakfast at hotel included with room reservation
9am-10:30am Supply Chains

• Guido Voigt, Otto-von-Guericke University, “Extended Screening Contracts and Coordination in a Single-Supplier Multi-Buyer Supply Chain.”
• Kyle Hyndman, Southern Methodist University, “Coordination in Supply Chains when Demand Forecasts are not Common Knowledge:  Theory and Experiment.”
• John MacDonald, Michigan State University, “The Impact of Disruptions on Supply Chain Strategy and Performance.”

10:30am-11am Break
11am-12:30pm:  Managerial Issues

• Nitin Joglekar, Boston University, “Taming or Flaming Firefighting?: Complexity, Screening and Allocation Bias in R&D Pipelines”
• Suresh Muthulingam, UCLA, “Managerial Biases and Energy Savings”
• Yaozhong Wu, National University of Singapore, “Managing Projects with Present-Biased Agents”

12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch in Atrium of SOM
1:30-1:45 Behavioral Process Management Section of INFORMS:  Introduction of Most Influential Paper of 2008 Award

• Lisa Yeo, University of Alberta

1:45pm-3pm Integrating Teaching into the classroom (Interactive discussion)

• Moderated by Mirko Kremer, Penn State University

3pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-5pm  Keynote Speaker

• Jay Russo, S.C. Johnson Family Professor of Management, Marketing and Behavioral Science at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.   “No Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Distortion of Information by Decision Makers”

Dinner will be at the Goldstein Alumni and Faculty Center on campus.   Drinks and hors devours will start at 5:30; dinner will be served at 6:30.

Saturday, June 27:
Breakfast at hotel included in room reservations
9am-9:30am Announcements
9:30am-11am Newsvendor Experiments

• Yufei Ren, UT Dallas, “Overconfidence in the Newsvendor Problem:  An Experimental Study”
• Nils Rudi, INSEAD, “Level, Adjustment and Observation Biases in the Newsvendor Model”
• Diana (Yan) Wu, University of Kansas, “Newsvendor Order Distribution under Contracts with Threshold”

11am-11:30am Wrap-up
Those with time to spare on Saturday before departure are welcome to join in a walk to a local restaurant for lunch.