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Behavioral Operations Conference May 5 – 6, 2006

Unit Technology & Operations Management > Conferences & Seminars

Schedule

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All events held in Hawes Hall 302 (except meals)

Gary Pisano (HBS)

Friday, May 5th
3:00 p.m.
Registration
3:30 p.m.
Introduction to the conference

Gary Pisano (HBS)
3:45 p.m.
Empirical Results on Drivers of Retail Sales and Customer Satisfaction

Marshall Fisher (Wharton)
4:15 p.m.
Outsourcing Traps

Charles Fine (MIT)
4:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
5:00 p.m.
Detecting Regime Shifts: The Causes of Under- and Overreaction

George Wu (Chicago)
5:30 p.m.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Perspective Taking

Max Bazerman (HBS) & Eugene Caruso (Harvard)
6:00 p.m.
Group Discussion
6:45 p.m.
Cocktails Followed by Dinner with Keynote Speaker

held in Spangler's Meredith Room
Eldar Shafir (Princeton)
Saturday, May 6th
8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

held in Hawes Hall's 3rd Floor Lounge
8:45 a.m.
Contracting in Supply Chains: A Laboratory Investigation (together with Diana Wu (Penn State)

Elena Katok (Penn State)
9:15 a.m.
Structural Estimation in the Newsvendor Model: Theory and Application (together with Marcelo Olivares (Wharton)

Christian Terwiesch (Wharton)
9:45 a.m.
Behaviorally Realistic Modeling for Operations Disruptions: Avian Flu

Baruch Fischhoff (Carnegie)
10:15 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.
Psychology in the Field

Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard)
11:00 a.m.
Instant Gratification: Behavioral Consequences and Neuroscientific Foundations

David Laibson (Harvard)
11:30 a.m.
Group Discussion

Noah Gans (Wharton)
12:00 p.m.
Lunch with keynote speaker

held in Spangler's Meredith Room Al Roth (HBS)
1:30 p.m.
Order Stability in Supply Chains: Coordination Risk and the Role of Coordination Stock

Rachel Croson (Wharton)
2:00 p.m.
I'm Not Hoarding, I'm Just Stocking Up Before the Hoarders Get Here

John Sterman (MIT)
2:30 p.m.
Linking Laboratory and Field Behavior: Bargaining and Auctions in Controlled Experiments on EBay (together with Axel Ockenfels - U of Cologne)

Gary Bolton (Penn State)
3:00 p.m.
Conclusion and discussion

Gary Pisano (HBS)