Did Europe Move in the Right Direction on E-Waste Legislation?
Authors: Shumail Mazahir, Vedat Verter, Tamer Boyaci and Luk van Wassenhove
Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming
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This paper presents an analytical framework of the product take back legislation in the context of product reuse. We characterize existing and proposed forms of E-waste legislation and compare their environmental and economic performance. Using stylized models, we analyze an OEM鈥檚 decision about new and remanufactured product quantity in response to the legislative mechanism. We focus on the 2012 waste electrical and electronic equipment directive in Europe, where the policy-makers intended to create additional incentives for the product reuse. Through a comparison to the original 2002 version of the directive, we find that these incentives translate into improved environmental outcomes only for a limited set of products. We also study a proposed policy that advocates a separate target for the product reuse. Our analysis reveals that from an environmental standpoint, the recast version is always dominated either by the original policy or by the one that advocates a separate target for the product reuse. We show that the benefits of a separate reuse target scheme can be fully replicated with the aid of fiscal levers. Our main message is that there cannot be a single best environmental policy that is suitable for all products. Therefore, the consideration of product attributes is essential in identification of the most appropriate policy tool. This can be done either by the implementation of different policies on each product category or by implementation of product based target levels.
Recognizing members of the Desautels community
The Desautels Faculty of Management is delighted to recognize members of its community who have recently received awards of excellence.
Please join me in congratulating them for their continued and inspiring commitment to Desautels and 9I制作厂免费.
Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou Dean & Professor of Finance Desautels Faculty of Management
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9I制作厂免费 Food Analytics Club presents Lecture & Hackathon
The 9I制作厂免费 Food Analytics Club (9I制作厂免费 FAC) is a student-driven data analytics club that focuses on food. As the world is heading towards a massive food crisis the next decade, there is an urgent need to come up with solutions. Inspired and supported by Desautels Professor Juan Camilo Serpa, the club members want to contribute to solving this food crisis with data analytics.
Hospital capacity management based on the queueing theory
Authors: Otavio Bittencourt, Vedat Verter, Morty Yalovsky
Publication: International Journal of Productivity and Performance
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Juan Serpa's article featured in Management Science
Professor Juan Serpa's paper "The Impact of Supply Chains on Firm-Level Productivity," together with Harish Krishnan was selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science one of the three Featured Articles for the February 2018 issue.
Management Science听is a scholarly journal that publishes scientific research on the practice of management. Within our scope are all aspects of management related to strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, information technology, and organizations as well as all functional areas of business, such as accounting, finance, marketing, and operations. We include studies on organizational, managerial, and individual decision making, from both normative and descriptive perspectives.
Optimal markdown pricing for holiday basket with customer valuation
Authors: Hijun Wang, Shanling Li and Jianwen Luo听
Publication: International Journal of Production Research, Forthcoming
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Brand Positioning and Consumer Taste Information
Authors: Arcan Nalca, Tamer Boyaci and Saibal Ray
Publication: European Journal of Operational Research, Forthcoming
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An integrated framework for inventory management and transportation of refined petroleum products: Pipeline or marine?
Authors: Atiq W. Siddiqui, Manish R. Verma and Vedat Verter
Publication: Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 55, 2018
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The Power of Diversity: Data-Driven Robust Predictive Control for Energy-Efficient Buildings and Districts
Authors:听Georgios Darivianakis, Angelos Georghiou, Roy S. Smith, John Lygeros听
Publication:听IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology听(Volume: PP,听Issue: 99)
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Bensadoun School of Retail Management highlighted among Quebec鈥檚 most innovative business programming
As business schools adapt their programs to address the grand challenges of our time, 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Bensadoun School of Retail Management stands out as an initiative that will respond to the needs of a rapidly changing retail industry.
Designing distribution systems with reverse flows
Authors:听Ayse Cilaci听Tombus赂 Necati Aras, Vedat Verter
Publication: Journal of Remanufacturing, Vol. 7, No. 2-3, December 2017
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The Strategic Role of Business Insurance
Authors: Juan Serpa and Harish S. Krishnan
Publication: Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 2, February 2017
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The use of business insurance has been traditionally studied in a single-firm setting, but in reality preventing operational accidents involves the (unobservable) efforts of multiple firms. We show that, in a multifirm setting, insurance can be used strategically as a commitment mechanism to prevent excessive free riding by other firms. In the presence of wealth imbalances, contracts alone leave wealth-constrained firms with inefficiently low incentives to exert effort (because of limited liability) and firms with sufficient wealth with excessive incentives. Insurance allows the latter to credibly commit to lower effort, thereby mitigating the incentives of the wealth-constrained firms to free ride. This finding shows that insurance can improve the efficiency of risk management efforts by decreasing free-riding problems.
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The Impact of Supply Chains on Firm-Level Productivity
Authors: Juan Serpa and Harish S. Krishnan
Publication: Management Science, Vol. 64, No. 2, February 2018
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Firms in a vertical relationship are likely to affect each other鈥檚 productivity. Exactly how does productivity spill over across this type of relationship (i.e., through which mechanisms)? Additionally, how does the relative importance of these mechanisms depend on the structure of the supply chain?
To answer these questions, we decompose the channels of upstream productivity spillovers鈥攆rom customers to suppliers鈥攂y developing a structural econometric model on a sample of approximately 22,500 supply chain dyads.
We find that the 鈥渆ndogenous channel鈥� (i.e., the effect of the customer鈥檚 own productivity on the supplier鈥檚 productivity) is by far the most important source of spillovers. This is especially true if (i) the supplier has a concentrated customer base, (ii) the supplier and the customer have similar operational characteristics, and (iii) the relationship has medium maturity.
In the converse scenarios, we find, it is more important to have a partner with a portfolio of favorable 鈥渃ontextual鈥� characteristics (high inventory turnover, financial liquidity, and asset turnover) than to have a productive partner.
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Saibal Ray on the potential benefits and costs if Amazon chooses Montreal
As Amazon hunts for a location for its second North American headquarters, Canada鈥檚 major cities are building their cases.
In a short interview with the 9I制作厂免费 Media team, Desautels Professor Saibal Ray talks about the benefits that a Montreal Amazon office would bring in terms of jobs and indirect benefits to the city鈥檚 academic and research sectors.
Desautels鈥� Juan Serpa included on Poets & Quants鈥檚 top 40 Undergrad profs list
Poets & Quants has released its inaugural 2017 Top Undergraduate Business Professors list, and on it is Desautels鈥� own Juan Camilo Serpa, Assistant Professor of Operations Management.
