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A Q&A with Chicago Booth’s René Caldentey about crisis-ready supply-chain management
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Biography
René Caldentey is a Professor of Operations Management. His primary research interests include stochastic modeling with applications to revenue and retail management, queueing theory, and finance. He has been published in numerous journals including Advances in Applied Probability, Econometrica, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, M&SOM, Operations Research and Queueing Systems. He has served on the editorial board of Management Science, M&SOM, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management and the Journal of Systems and Engineering (in Spanish).
Prior to joining Booth, Caldentey was a professor in the department of Information, Operations and Management Science at New York University Stern School of Business. Before joining NYU Stern in 2001, he worked for the Chilean Central Bank and taught at the University of Chile and The Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Professor Caldentey received his Master of Arts in civil industrial engineering from the University of Chile and his Doctor of Philosophy in operations management from MIT.
Academic Areas
- Operations Management
Selected Publications
Caldentey, R., A. Giloni, C. Hurvich, Y. Zhang (2024). Information Design and Sharing in Supply Chains. Mathematics of Operations Research.
Caldentey, R. V. Gupta, L. Hillas (2024). Designing Service Menus for Bipartite Queueing Systems. Operations Research.
Caldentey, R., X. Hu (2023). Trust and Reciprocity in Firms' Capacity Sharing. M&SOM.
Araman, V., R. Caldentey (2022). Diffusion Approximations for a Class of Sequential Experimentation Problems. Management Science, Vol 68, No. 5, 5958-5979.
Caldentey, R., A. Giloni, C. Hurvich (2022). Performance Bound for Myopic Order-Up-To Inventory Policies under Stationary Demand Processes. Operations Research Letters, Vol. 50, No. 5, 588-595.
Afeche, P., R. Caldentey, V. Gupta (2021). On the Optimal Design of a Bipartite Matching System. Operations Research, Vol 70, No. 1, 363-401.
Feng, Y., R. Caldentey, C. Ryan (2021). Robust Learning of Consumer Preferences. Operations Research, Vol 70, No.2, 918-962.
Caldentey, R., Y. Liu, I. Lobel (2017). Intertemporal Pricing under Minimax Regret. Operations Research, Vol. 65, No. 1, 104-129.
Hu, X., R. Caldentey, G. Vulcano (2013). Revenue Sharing in Airline Alliances. Management Science, 59(5), 1177-1195
Caldentey, R., E. Stacchetti (2010). Insider Trading with Random Deadline. Econometrica Vol. 78, No. 1, 245-283.
Caldentey, R., M. Haugh (2009). Supply Contracts with Financial Hedging. Operations Research 57, 47-65.
Araman, V., R. Caldentey (2009). Dynamic Pricing for Non-Perishable Products with Demand Learning. Operations Research, Vol. 57, No.5, 1169-1188.
Caldentey, R., G. Vulcano (2007). Online Auction and Revenue Management. Management Science vol. 53(5), 795-813.
Caldentey, R., M. Haugh (2006). Optimal Control and Hedging of Operations in the Presence of Financial Markets. Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 31, No. 2, 285-304.
Caldentey, R., L. Wein (2006). Revenue Management of a Make-to-Stock Queue. Operations Research, Vol. 54, No. 5, 859-875.
Bitran, G., R. Caldentey (2003). An Overview of Pricing Models and Revenue Management. M&SOM, Vol. 5, No. 3 , 203-229.
Working Papers
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