This dissertation is based on three essays that study operational strategies to manage environmental uncertainty. In essay 1, we examine the costs and benefits of different supply chain structures in managing multi-product demand uncertainty. In particular we analyze the strategic performance of...

The marketing and operations management arms in a firm must work in coordination – marketing efforts to create demand go to waste if supply is suboptimal, and vice versa. However, achieving this coordination has remained a long-standing problem, because in most firms these units are managed in...

Over the past few years, firms in the travel and entertainment industries have begun using novel sales strategies for revenue management. In this chapter, we study a selling strategy called opaque selling, in which firms guarantee one of several fully specified products, but hide the identity of...