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Seminar Series
The CN Supply Chain Management Distinguished Speaker Series hosts speakers from a variety of backgrounds. If you would like to receive an email invitation to future speaker events, please contact Peruvemba Sundaram Ravi at pravi@wlu.ca.
Upcoming Seminars and Events
Dr. Vikram Bhakoo, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne
- Date and time: Wednesday Oct. 15, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Location: LH4096 (Lazaridis Hall), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
- Title: Qualitative Research in OSCM: A stock take and how to harness the potential of interpretive case study research
- Date and time: Friday Oct. 17, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Location: P118 (Peter's Building), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
- Title: Unpacking the wicked problem of modern slavery in supply chains: Challenges, Antidotes and stimulating ideas for future scholarship!
Dr. Ginger Y. Ke, Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University
- Date and time: Friday Nov. 14, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Location: LH4096 (Lazaridis Hall), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
- Title: TBD
Dr. Chris Parker, The Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
- Date and time: Friday Nov. 21, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Location: LH4096 (Lazaridis Hall), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
- Title: TBD
Dr. Kai Huang, The DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
- Date and time: Friday Dec. 5, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Location: LH4096 (Lazaridis Hall), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
- Title: TBD
Dr. Mark E. Lewis, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
- Date and time: Friday Dec. 12, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Location: LH4096 (Lazaridis Hall), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
- Title: TBD
Past Seminars and Events
Dr. Qiong Wang, Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, Grainger College of Engineering, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Date and time: Friday Nov. 1, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Exploiting Random Lead Times for Significant Savings of Inventory Costs: Policies, Analyses, and Results
Dr. Kevin Shang, Duke University
- Date and time: Friday Nov. 8 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Dynamic Pricing and Release Time Control for Service Systems
Dr. Ioannis Stamatopoulos, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin University of Texas at Austin
- Date and time: Friday Dec. 6, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Observational Price Variation in Scanner Data Cannot Reproduce Experimental Price Elasticities
Dr. George Day, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
- Date and time: Friday Dec. 13, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: The Innovation Disciplines of Growth Leaders
Dr. Stephen Leider, University of Michigan
- Date and time: Friday Jan. 24, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Human Decision-Making in Dynamic Resource Allocation
Dr. Moravid Rahmani, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Date and time: Friday Feb. 7, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Sequential Selection of Candidates: An Experimental Investigation
Dr. M. Ali. Ulku, Dalhousie University
- Date and time: Friday Feb. 14, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: On Retailer Return Policies, Consumer Behaviour, and Supply Chain Sustainability
Dr. Gokce Esenduran, Daniels School of Business, Purdue University
- Date and time: Friday Apr. 11, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Manufacturing-as-a-Service: Bringing Job Opportunities to Underserved Rural Communities
Dr. Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University
- Date and time: Friday May 2, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Optimal Supply Chain Resilience
Dr. Baris Ata, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
- Date and time: Friday May 9, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Analysis and Improvement of Eviction Enforcement
Dr. Janos D. Pinter, Department of Management Science and Information Systems, Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick, Rutgers University
- Date and time: Friday May 16, 2025 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Optimized Object Packings with Applications
Dr. Phil Kaminsky, Senior Principal Research Scientist at Amazon and Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
- Date and time: May 24, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Freight Capacity Portfolio Design in a Two-Sided Freight Marketplace
Dr. Serhan Ziya, Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Date and time: May 3, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Using Hospital Admission Predictions at Triage for Improving Patient Length-of-Stay in Emergency Departments
Dr. Dr. Linwei Xin, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
- Date and time: April 19, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Time VC Theory for Inventory Policies
Dr. Yanchong (Karen) Zheng, MIT Sloan School of Management.
- Date and time: April 12, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Improving Farmers’ Welfare via Digital Agricultural Platforms
Dr. Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame.
- Date and time: March 22, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Information Management for Disaster Response: Enhancing Operational Updates by Leveraging Crew Experience
Dr. Chiara Farronato, Harvard Business School.
- Date and time: March 15, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Vertical Integration and Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Dr. Kejia Hu, Said Business School, University of Oxford.
- Date and time: March 8, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: The Impact of Financial Incentives in Instant Retail: An Empirical Investigation
Dr. Can Zhang, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
- Date and time: March 1, 2024 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Farm Equipment Sharing in Emerging Economies
Dr. Manpreet Singh Hora, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Date and time: June 23, 2023 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Buyer-Supplier Networks and Innovation: The Role of Technological Distance
Dr. Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Date and time: April 28, 2023 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Conditional Incentives for Improving Smallholder Farmer Welfare and Protecting Tropical Forests
Dr. Jeannette Song, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
- Date and time: February 24, 2023 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: The Blockchain Newsvendor: Value of Freshness Transparency and Smart Contracts
Dr. Song-Hee Kim, SNU Business School, Seoul National University
- Date and time: February 3, 2023 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Identifying the Bottleneck Unit: Impact of Congestion Spillover in Hospital Inpatient Unit Network
Dr. Felipe Caro, Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles
- Date and time: January 20, 2023 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Title: Believing in Analytics: Managers’ Adherence to Price Recommendations from a DSS (joint work with Anna Saez de Tejada Cuenca)
Dr. Ou Tang, Linköping University
- Date and time: January 13, 2023 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Planned Lead times in an Automotive MTO Remanufacturing Case
Dr. Fabio Sgarbossa, Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology
- Date and time: December 16, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Renewable hydrogen supply chains: A planning matrix and an agenda for future research
Dr. Niels Agatz, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- Date and time: December 9, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: Time Slot Management for Attended Home Delivery
Dr. Terry Taylor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- Date and time: December 2, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Title: Shared-ride Efficiency of Ride-hailing Platforms
Dr. Robert L. Bray, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Date and time: November 25, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- Title: Logarithmic Regret in Multisecretary and Online Linear Programming Problems with Continuous Valuations
Dr. Linwei Xin, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
- Date and time: November 18, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Title: The Benefits of Delay to Online Decision-Making
Dr. Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia University
- Date and time: November 11, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Title: Simple and Fair Pricing Strategies
Dr. Joel Goh, National University of Singapore Business School
- Date and time: May 6, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: Human performance at solving 0-1 knapsack problems: Results from a large-scale field experiment
Dr. Christopher S. Tang, UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles
- Date and time: April 29, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Title: Improving Supply Chain Resilience: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Dr. Anyan Qi, University of Texas at Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management
- Date and time: April 8, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: An Asymptotically Tight Learning Algorithm for Mobile-Promotion Platforms (with Zhichao Feng, Milind Dawande, and Ganesh Janakiraman)
Dr. Onur Boyabatli, Singapore Management University’s Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Date and time: April 1, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: Stochastic Capacity Investment in the Presence of Production Resource Uncertainty and Its Implications for Hedging
Dr. Stephen Shum, City University of Hong Kong's College of Business
- Date and time: March 25, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: Dynamic Operations Management with Strategic Customers
Dr. Javad Nasiry, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management
- Date and time: February 11, 2022 from 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
- Title: Sustainability in the Fast Fashion Industry (joint work with Xiaoyang Long)
Dr. Qing Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School
- Date and time: February 4, 2022 from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: A Sequential Model for Recruitment: High Volume, Random Yields, and Rigid Target
Dr. Warren B. Powell, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer at Optimal Dynamics
- Date and time: January 7, 2022 from 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- Title: A Unified Framework for Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty
Dr. Amar Sapra, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India.
- Date and time: December 17, 2021 from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: Optimal Processing and Trading for a Commodity in the Presence of Inventory Conversion Flexibility and Random Supply (with Sridhar Seshadri and Trilochan Sastry)
Dr. Nursen Aydin, Associate Professor of Operational Research at the Warwick Business School in the UK.
- Date and time: December 3, 2021 from 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- Title: Fundamental Models in Revenue Management: Past, Present and Future
Dr. Chaithanya Bandi, Associate Professor of Operations at the NUS Business School in Singapore
- Date and time: November 19, 2021 from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: Optimal Staffing and Online Scheduling in data-rich but uncertain environments: A case study at PGIMER hospital
Krishnan Venkateswaran, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Titan Company Ltd.
Yashwanth Kumar, Head- Analytics and Insights, Titan Company Ltd.
Archana Menon, Gautam Prasad, Goverdhana Kudligi, and Santosh Vuppala, leading analytics delivery teams for various functions at Titan Company Ltd.
- Date and time: October 22, 2021 from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: Analytics Applications at Titan
Dr. Rob Zuidwijk, Professor of Global Supply Chains and Ports at the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands.
- Date and time: September 17, 2021 from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: The role of data in container transportation
Dr. Peter M. Kort, economist and operations researcher at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management in the Netherlands
- Date and time: June 25, 2021 from 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m
- Title: Double Marginalization due to External Financing: Capacity Investment under Uncertainty (by Herbert Dawid, Nick F.D. Huberts, Kuno J.M. Huisman, Peter M. Kort, and Xingang Wen)
Dr. Jiahua Wu, Imperial College Business School, London
- Date and time: June 18, 2021 from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- Title: Sales Effort Management under All-or-Nothing Constraint
Dr. Tava Olsen, The University of Auckland Business School
- Date and time: June 4, 2021 from 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Title: Modelling Contracts and Incentives in Agricultural Cooperative Supply Chains
Dr. Houyuan Jiang and Dr. Feryal Erhun. Dr. Jiang and Dr. Erhun are faculty members at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge
- Date and time: May 28, 2021 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Title: Supply Chain Thinking in Healthcare and an Application on COVID-19
Dr. Rachel Q. Zhang, Chair Professor of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- Date and time: May 21, 2021 from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: An Economic Model of Blockchain: The Interplay between Transaction Fees and Security
Dr. Yun Fong Lim, faculty member at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University.
- Date and time: May 14, 2021 from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
- Title: Optimal Policies and Heuristics to Match Supply with Demand for Online Retailing
Dr. Tolga Tezcan, faculty member at the London Business School
- Date and time: May 7, 2021 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Title: Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program does not provide the right incentives: Issues and remedies
Dr. Lucy Gongtao Chen, faculty member at the National University of Singapore's business school.
- Date and time: April 30, 2021 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Title: Supply Chain Performance with Target-Oriented Firms
Dr. Debjit Roy, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
- Date and time: April 23, 2021 from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- Title: Robots, Models, and Data: New Research Opportunities in E-Commerce Order Fulfillment
M. Johnny Rungtusanatham, Canada Research Chair in Supply Chain Management at the Schulich School of Business, York University, and past President of the Decision Sciences Institute
- Date and time: March 6, 2020 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m
- Title: Supplier Retention in the Aftermath of a Supply Disruption: Trigger Attributes and Anger
- Date and time: February 28, 2020 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Title: Disruptive Technologies in Transportation
- Date and time: May 8, 2019 from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- Location: Granite Ridge Golf Club, Milton, ON
- Panel: Kevin Whibbs, Senior VP, Supply Chain, Loblaws; Tanya Bischoff, Director, Supply Chain, NORTH; Shauna Mcmillan, Director of Marketing, Domestic Intermodal, CN; Pamela Ruebusch, CEO, TSI Group Inc.; Kevin Radford, Manager, TMMC
- Moderator: Bernie Uhlich, Managing Director, Uhlich Associates Inc.
- Date and time: March 22, 2019 from 8:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
- Topic: A panel discussion on “Future of Supply Chain”, organized by the Laurier Centre for Supply Chain Management and the Supply Chain Management Association, Ontario.
Antony Paulraj
- Date and time: November 21, 2018 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Title: Combined Effects of Relational Mechanisms on Supply Chain Capabilities
- Date and time: November 2, 2018 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Title: Implementing an Analytics Capability in a Business Context
- Date and time: October 19, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Title: Ride-Hailing Networks with Strategic Drivers: The Impact of Platform Control Capabilities on Performance
Frederik Odegaard, Associate Professor of Management Science at the Ivey Business School, with cross-appointment at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Western University
- Date and time: April 13, 2018 from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
- Title: Stacking the House: Capacity Based Revenue