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Past events
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Stability in Large Matching Markets with Complementarities
Speaker: Dr Itai Ashlagi, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: TBC
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Warranty Costs Sharing in a Supply Chain
Speaker: Professor Fangruo Chen, MUTB Professor of International Business, Columbia Business School
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: TBC
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Competitive Product Positioning through Technological Differentiation
Speaker: Dr Nektarios Oraiopoulos, University Lecturer in Management Science, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: TBC
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Speed Quality Trade-offs in a Dynamic Model
Speaker: Dr Vasiliki Kostami, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Operations, London Business School
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: TBC
Wednesday 30 November 2011
In-house Globalization: The Role of Globally Distributed Design and Product Architecture on Product Development Performance
Speaker: Dr Bilal Gokpinar, Lecturer in Management Science, University College London
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: TBC
Previous events
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Ranking games and gambling: When to quit when you're ahead
Speaker: Professor Eddie Anderson, The University of Sydney Business School
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: NAB2.13, New Academic Building
Abstract
It is common for rewards to be given on the basis of a rank ordering, so that relative performance amongst a cohort is the criterion. In this paper we formulate an equilibrium model in which an agent makes successive decisions on whether or not to gamble and is rewarded on the basis of a rank ordering of final wealth. This is a model of the behaviour of mutual fund managers who are paid depending on funds under management which in turn are largely determined by annual or quarterly rank orderings. In this model fund managers can elect either to pick stocks or to use a market tracking strategy. In equilibrium the final distribution of rewards will have a negative skew. We explore how this distribution depends on the number of players, the probability of success when gambling, the structure of the rewards, and on information regarding the other player's performance.
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Analytical Results on the PAUSE Auction Procedure
Speaker: Dr Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu, Department of Management, LSE
Abstract: Analytical Results on the PAUSE Auction Procedure| (PDF - 16KB)
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: NAB1.14, New Academic Building
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Distinguished Speakers in Management Science lecture: Partition Problems - Optimality and Clustering
Speaker: Professor Uriel Rothblum, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Abstract: Partition Problems - Optimality and Clustering| (PDF - 20KB)
Time: 4pm
Venue: NAB2.06, New Academic Building
Wednesday 2 February 2011
On Assessing Poverty, Social Welfare and Inequality with Ordinal Multidimensional Data
Speaker: Lars Peter Østerdal, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Abstract: On Assessing Poverty, Social Welfare and Inequality with Ordinal Multidimensional Data| (PDF - 16KB)
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: EAS.E168, East Building
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Rationalising Concavifiable Preferences
Speaker: Dr Nikolaos Argyris, Department of Management, LSE
Abstract: Rationalising Concavifiable Preferences| (PDF - 32KB)
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: NAB1.07, New Academic Building
Wednesday 8 December 2010
Multivalued Decision Diagrams in Optimization
Speaker: Professor John Hooker, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract: Multivalued Decision Diagrams in Optimization| (PDF - 44KB)
Time: 4pm
Venue: NAB2.06, New Academic Building
Wednesday 1 December 2010
A New Bound for the Cops and Robbers Problem
Speaker: Professor Alex Scott, University of Oxford
Abstract: A new bound for the Cops and Robbers problem| (PDF - 44KB)
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: NAB2.14, New Academic Building
Wednesday 24th November 2010
Forza Auctions: A Study of an Artificial Economy
Speaker: Peter Key, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Abstract: Forza Auctions: A study of an Artificial Economy| (PDF - 40KB)
Time: 4pm
Venue: NAB2.06, New Academic Building
Wednesday 27 October 2010
First Come First Served Infinite Matching with Applications to Queues with Multi-type Customers and Multi-type Servers
Speaker: Professor Gideon Weiss, Department of Statistics, University of Haifa
Abstract: First Come First Served| (PDF - 16KB)
Time: 4pm
Venue: NAB2.06, New Academic Building
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Securing the Containerized Supply Chain
Speaker: Dr Nitin Bakshi, Management Science and Operations, London Business School
Abstract: Securing the Containerized Supply Chain| (PDF - 16KB)
Time: 3.30pm
Venue: NAB2.14, New Academic Building