This article studies the static pricing problem of a network service provider who has a fixed capacity and faces different types of customers (classes). We consider a single-bandwidth tree network, meaning that each class can have its own capacity constraint but it is assumed that all classes...

We study the static pricing problem for a network service provider in a loss system with a tree structure. In the network, multiple classes share a common inbound link and then have dedicated outbound links. The motivation is from a company that sells phone cards and needs to price calls to...

The main research question we explore in this dissertation is: How should a retailer modify its product assortment over time in order to maximize overall profits for a given selling season? Historically, long development, procurement, and production lead times have constrained fashion retailers...

Consumers become satiated with a product when purchasing too much too quickly. How much is too much and how quickly is too quickly depends on the characteristics of the product relative to the time interval between consumption periods. Knowing that, consumers allocate their budget to products...

We propose a multi-period extension of the competitive newsvendor model of Lippman and McCardle (1997) to investigate the impact of quick response under competition. For this purpose, we consider two retailers that compete in terms of inventory: customers that face a stockout at their...

Working in collaboration with Spain-based retailer Zara, we address the problem of dis- tributing over time a limited amount of inventory across all the stores in a fast-fashion retail network. Challenges speci¯c to that environment include very short product life-cycles, and store policies...

Companies such as Zara and World Co. have recently implemented novel product development processes and supply chain architectures enabling them to make more product design and assortment decisions during the selling season, when actual demand information becomes available. How should such retail...