Program

The Sixth Conference on Integrated Risk Management
in Operations and Global Supply Chains

co-hosted by

Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
721 University Avenue, Syracuse, NY 13244

and
 
Olin School of Business
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130

August 7 - 10, 2010

Conference Program (tentative)

Saturday, August 7

4:00pm – 7:00pm        Registration at the entrance of the Whitman School of Management

6:30pm – 8:30pm        Reception at the Grand Flaum Hall in Whitman School of Management

Sunday, August 8, 2010

7:30am – 8:00am        Breakfast at the Grand Flaum Hall in Whitman School of Management

8:00am – 8:15am        Welcome by Dean Melvin Stith in room 102

8:15am – 9:00am        Risk Aversion Happens: Why Risk-Neutral Manufacturers Ought to Hedge Material Purchases?
Panos Kouvelis, Ehsan Bolandifar, Danko Turcic

9:00am – 9:45am        Outsourcing and Backsourcing under Demand Uncertainty
Michel Benaroch, Scott Webster and Burak Kazaz

9:45am – 10:00pm      Discussant, Grace Lin

10:00am – 10:15am    Coffee Break

10:15am – 11:00am    A Framework for Supply Chain Coordination
Chester Chambers, Maqbool Dada

11:00am – 11:15am    Discussant, Scott Webster

11:15am – 12:00pm    Supply Management in Multi-Product Firms with Fixed Proportions Technology
Onur Boyabatli, Paul Kelindorfer

12:00pm – 1:00pm      Lunch Break

1:00pm – 1:45pm        Contingent Payments for Controlling Moral Hazard in Suppliers’ Quality Decisions: Inspection versus Trade Credit
Volodymyr Babich, Christopher Tang

1:45pm – 2:00pm        Discussant, Genaro Gutierrez

2:00pm – 2:45pm        Supply Side Story: Risks, Guarantees, Competition, and Information Asymmetry
Mehmet Gumus, Saibal Ray, Haresh Gurnani

2:45pm – 3:00pm        Discussant, Rachel Zhang

3:00pm – 3:15pm        Coffee Break

3:15pm – 4:00pm        Incentive Contracts for Green Technology Adoption within a Supply Chain: A Principal Agent Perspective
Baichun Feng, Tao Yao, Bin Jiang

4:00pm – 4:15pm        Discussant, Volodymyr Babich

5:45pm                        Bus leaves from Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel for the dinner reception at Anyela’s Vineyards, Skaneateles, NY

6:30pm – 9:00pm        Dinner Reception at Anyela’s Vineyards

9:00pm                        Bus leaves for Syracuse University Sheraton Hotel

Monday, August 9, 2010

7:30am – 8:15am        Breakfast at the Grand Flaum Hall in Whitman School of Management

8:15am – 9:00am        Effect of Term Structure of Futures Price on Spot Procurement Policies
Ankur Goel, Genaro Gutierrez

9:00am – 9:15am        Discussant, Harry Groenevelt

9:15am – 10:00am      The Impact of Yield-Dependent Purchasing Costs on Pricing and Production Planning under Supply and Demand Uncertainty
Burak Kazaz, Scott Webster

10:00am – 10:15am    Coffee Break

10:15am – 11:00am    Static and Dynamic Transshipment Prices
Metin Cakanyildirim, Nagihan Comez, Kathryn Stecke

11:00am – 11:45am    The Impact of Airline Flight Schedules on Flight Delays: An Empirical Study
Vinayak Deshpande, Mazhar Arikan

11:45am – 12:00pm    Discussant, Srinagesh Gavirneni

12:00pm – 1:00pm      Lunch Break

1:00pm – 1:45pm        Supplier Alliance in Channel Structures under Default Risk
Xiao Huang, Tamer Boyaci, Mehmet Gumus, Saibal Ray, Dan Zhang

1:45pm – 2:30pm        Does Sharing Inventory Benefit Firms When There Is A Commodity Market?
Sridhar Seshadri, Seung-Jae Park

2:30pm – 2:45pm        Coffee Break

2:45pm – 3:30pm        The Cost Consequences of IT Operational Risk: An Empirical Analysis of Contextual Factors
Michel Benaroch, Anna Chernobai, J. Goldstein

3:30pm – 5:00pm        Poster Presentations
Capacity Management for Commodity Processors with Fixed Proportions Technology
Onur Boyabatli, Quang Dang (Jason) Nguyen

The Value of Operational Flexibility in Uncertain Supply and Demand Environments with Oil Refinery Applications
Lingxiu Dong, Panos Kouvelis, Xiaole Wu

Tuesday, August 10 – Finger Lakes Regional Tour (tentative)

9:45am                        Bus leaves Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel for the Finger Lakes regional tour

11:00am – 11:45am    Billsboro Winery

12:00pm – 12:45pm    Lunch at Fox Run Vineyards Café

1:15pm – 2:15pm        Scenic Hike at Watkins Glen State Park (waterfalls, please bring a pair of hiking shoes)

2:30pm – 3:15pm        Wine tasting and production tour with winemaker Vinny Aliperti at Atwater Estate Vineyards

3:30pm – 4:15pm        Wine tasting and facility tour with grape grower Phil Davis at Damiani Wine Cellars

4:30pm – 5:00pm        Wine tasting at Lamoreaux Landing Vineyards

6:00pm – 8:00pm        Dinner and stroll in the village of Skaneateles

9:00pm                        Bus arrives at Syracuse University Sheraton Hotel