
How Businesses Should Use Crowdvoting
Booth’s René Caldentey developed a model to help businesses pinpoint the optimal time to end a crowdvoting campaign.
How Businesses Should Use CrowdvotingRecent research from professor Dan Adelman, for example, highlights flaws in the most influential hospital-rating systems, impacting millions of people and billions of dollars.
Other research from our faculty in this area has examined a broad spectrum of operations management issues—from healthcare analytics to operational issues in the criminal justice system to improving medical research through math.
The research from our operations management faculty is published regularly in many of the leading journals in this field, including Operations Research. From the Washington Post to The Hill, international media outlets often write about the research our operations management professors generate, including insights into the COVID-19 pandemic.
At Booth, our faculty have the freedom to incorporate emerging topics and their own research into the curriculum and the courses they teach.
In experiential courses such as the Healthcare Analytics Lab, students learn to apply data-driven analytics and insights to identify and create healthcare delivery efficiencies. Student teams work on real-world improvement projects with prominent healthcare institutions.
Other courses such as Managerial Decision Modeling and Advanced Decision Models with Python provide students with hands-on active learning through in-class cases and a term project that applies the tools and frameworks learned in the course to a business problem.
Discover more about our operations management faculty, including the classes they teach, below.
Discover some of the latest research from our operations management professors.
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The US Forced Major Manufacturers to Build Ventilators. Now They’re Piling Up Unused in a Strategic Reserve.
August 18, 2020 | Washington Post
The United States ordered double the number of ventilators needed in the worst-case scenario, which involved no equipment sharing between states and drew from the strategic national stockpile, said Booth’s Dan Adelman.
As Virus Flares Globally, New Strategies Target Hot Spots
October 19, 2020 | Associated Press
Booth’s John R. Birge and Ozan Candogan have been modeling how localized restrictions in New York City could best minimize both infections and economic harm.
Retail Chains Face Uphill Battle Getting Shoppers Back in Stores
May 02, 2020 | The Hill
As major retailers start to reopen, they face the challenge of convincing consumers it’s safe to make purchases in person. Booth’s Nicole DeHoratius suggests appointment shopping could be an effective approach. “It allows one to minimize contact with others and it helps with the track-and-trace process should there be that need,” she said.
Our operations management faculty members are active in and outside of the University of Chicago, from participating in events with industry leaders on how to lead through a pandemic, to delivering keynotes at top conferences in this area, to editing top journals. Here are just a few examples:
Discover some of the latest working papers and published papers from our operations management faculty.
“Thousands Of Lives Could Be Saved In The US During The COVID-19 Pandemic If States Exchanged Ventilators”
Dan Adelman
“Controlling Epidemic Spread: Reducing Economic Losses with Targeted Closures”
John R. Birge and Ozan Candogan, with coauthor Yiding Feng (Northwestern University)
“Impact of Task-Level Worker Specialization, Workload, and Product Personalization on Consumer Returns”
Amy Ward, with coauthors Hailong Cui (Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota), and Sampath Rajagopalan (University of Southern California)
“Regularized Online Allocation Problems: Fairness and Beyond”
Haihao (Sean) Lu, with Santiago R. Balseiro (Columbia University) and Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research)
Research centers across Booth and the University of Chicago are hubs for innovation and world-changing research. The centers provide our faculty with research support, and our faculty members lend their expertise to the centers, enriching the student experience and the broader academic community at Booth.