Chair of Operations, Economics & Strategy

Best Presentation Award in Tokyo for Professor Weber

Published:20.02.20 — At the joint ICCMB 2020 / ICSCM 2020 meetings in Tokyo, Japan, Prof. Weber’s discourse on “Planning Supply with ‘Opportunity Goods:’ Complementing Premium Parts with Select Discount Components” was honored by a Best Presentation Award.

New Results on Sharing Economy Presented at 53rd HICSS Conference

Published:17.02.20 — Prof. Weber presented his latest paper on “Nonlinear Pricing of Shareable Products” in the SITES mini-track at the 53rd Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) on January 8, 2020. In this research, he develops a robust way to segment (or “screen”) a heterogeneous consumer base by jointly using the instruments of retail price and sharing tariff.

New Hands-On Graduate Course Links Engineering and Management

Published:03.02.20 — First successful edition of a joint Masters course between STI and CDM to expose students to entrepreneurial challenges by designing a product to be marketed.