Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, 2009.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, 2009. "While all work in this dissertation is original, Chapters 2 and 3 are joint work with Professors Nils Rudi and Harry Groenevelt respectively, and Chapter 4 is solo work"--Acknowledgments.

Major airlines are selling increasing numbers of interline itineraries, in which flights operated by two or more airlines are combined and sold together. One reason for this increase is the rapid growth of airline alliances, which promote the purchase of interline itineraries and therefore...

The paper studies coordination of a supply chain when the inventory is managed by the vendor (VMI). We also provide a general mathematical framework that can be used to analyze contracts under both retailer managed inventory (RMI) and VMI. Using a simple news-vendor scenario with a single vendor...

Problem definition: Treating many blood-related diseases requires transplantation of genetically compatible hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) extracted from the bone marrow (BM) of live donors or the umbilical cord blood (CB) of babies. To facilitate the search for HSCs, institutions known as BM...

The paper examines prioritization in a queuing system and analyzes whether, in the presence of heterogeneous customers and a costly sorting process, it pays to prioritize. In particular, in our model, the task of gathering information to prioritize/sort jobs consumes resources. We investigate a...

Purpose: To demonstrate a simple mathematical model for evaluating operational decisions for preparing compounded sterile products in a hospital pharmacy.Summary: This paper describes a simple mathematical model, based on a small set of parameters easily estimated from existing data. This model...