Chair of Operations, Economics & Strategy

The mission of OES within the MTEI is to conduct world-class research and teaching at the intersection of operations, economics and strategy, as it relates to organizations and their interactions.

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7th Annual Deloitte OES Prize for Optimizing Mexican Restaurant

— The 2019 Deloitte OES Prize for the best student project in Prof. Weber’s graduate course “Operations: Economics and Strategy” was awarded to Andres ENGELS, Máximo JARA JARA, and Maina ORCHAMPT-MARESCHAL. The Deloitte OES Prize competition, which involves finding operational improvements in local businesses, has been awarded each year since 2013 rendering the 2019 edition the 7th year of uninterrupted cooperation between Deloitte and the EPFL Chair of Operations, Economics and Strategy.

A New Tool For Optimizing Delinquent Debt Collection Strategies

— Traditional methods of scoring outstanding credit accounts and the associated collection strategies are relatively ineffective. Thomas Weber and his research colleagues Naveed Chehrazi and Peter W. Glynn have created a new Dynamic Collectability Scoring methodology, and further refined the model to provide a way for organizations to optimize delinquent debt collection strategies.

Meet a professor – Thomas A. Weber

— Prof. Thomas Weber has accepted to answer a few questions about himself.

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