ISB POMS Workshop 2025

Isb Poms Workshop 2025

ISB – POMS Workshop 2025

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ISB – POMS Workshop 2025

The upcoming annual ISB-POMS workshop is aimed at showcasing cutting-edge academic research in the area of “Operations and Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets

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About the Event

Topics: The workshop will focus on diverse yet related topics such as sustainability, healthcare operations, risk management, agriculture and food supply chains, retail operations, pharmaceutical supply chain, work that is motivated by problems in emerging economies, uses datasets from these settings and/or has policy implications for these contexts. However, these attributes are not necessary for submission. All methodologies (analytical modelling, empirical modelling, statistics) are welcome, and the emphasis is on the rigorous execution of these methodologies and the practical relevance of the results.

Format: The workshop will comprise a single track of approximately ten high-quality presentations over 1.5 working days. Each presentation will be of 30 minutes duration followed by 15 minutes of discussion. In addition to the presentations, the workshop program will include keynote talks and a dedicated slot for a poster session featuring the work of PhD students.

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Keynote Speakers

Tava Olsen

Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Melbourne Business School

Dr. Olsen is an award-winning expert in operations and supply chain management, with a PhD from Stanford University and extensive experience publishing in and serving as Associate or Senior Editor for four Financial Times Top 50 journals: Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management; her most notable editorial work was as Operations and Supply Chain Area Editor at Operations Research between 2018 and 2023. Tava has also served as President of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society.

Erica Plambeck

Erica Plambeck

The Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information & Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Erica Plambeck is The Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information & Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business.  She has expertise in Operations, Supply Chain Management, and Innovation. Her research in South Asia reduces lead exposure from adulterated turmeric and from lead-acid battery recycling, particularly through policy and business model innovation to improve the batteries in electric three-wheeled vehicles.  She also studies area incentives to mitigate illegal crop burning and deforestation.  

Submission

Submission guidelines: To be considered for the workshop, authors must submit an extended abstract of four pages via email to isb_poms@isb.edu by April 30, 2025. It should describe the contextual motivation of the research problem, a brief discussion of the methodology used, the main results, and policy/managerial implications. The abstract should also clearly state whether the submission is toward the presentation track or the poster session. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, and final acceptance decisions will be communicated by May 15, 2025.

The deadline for submission has been extended to May 10, 2025

Important Dates:

Abstract submission (Extended)

May 10, 2025

Notification of acceptances (Updated)

May 25, 2025

Registration Deadline

June 20, 2025

Workshop

July 8 - 9, 2025


Please submit abstracts by email to : isb_poms@isb.edu

Sumit Kunnumkal

ISB

Sripad Devalkar

ISB

Nagesh Murthy

U Oregon, POMS Board

Subodha Kumar

Temple, POMS Board

Parshuram Hotkar

parshuram_hotkar@isb.edu

Vishwakant Malladi

vishwakant_malladi@isb.edu

Schedule

ISB – POMS Workshop

Location: Indian School of Business, July 8-9, 2025

Workshop venue: AC-7 LT, Level-2

Day 1 – Tuesday, July 8, 2025

8:00 - 9:00 Registration (Workshop Venue) / Breakfast (Bajaj Dining Hall)
9:00 - 9:05 Introduction (Workshop Co-Chair)
9:05 – 9:15 Welcome Address (Madan Pillutla, Dean, ISB)
9:20 – 9:25 Introduction (Sumit Kunnumkal, Area Leader and Professor, Operations Management, ISB)
9:30 – 10:30 Keynote I: Tava Olsen (Melbourne Business School)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Session I: Healthcare Operations
  1. Feryal Erhun, University of Cambridge
    “Pharmaceutical-CRO Relationships: Are Strategic Partnerships the Way Forward?”
    Discussant: Sarang Deo, Indian School of Business
  2. Dwaipayan Roy, Darden School of Management
    “Public Leadership and Contraceptive Uptake in Government Health Facilities: Evidence from India”
    Discussant: Nitish Jain, London Business School
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch (Atrium)
14:00 – 15:00 Industry Session I:
Mr. Abhinav Singh, Vice President – Operations, Amazon India
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:30– 17:00 Session II: Online Platforms
  1. Gad Allon, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
    “Leveraging Consensus Effect to Optimize Ranking in Online Discussion Boards"
    Discussant: Sridhar Seshadri, Gies College of Business
  2. Bharadwaj Kadiyala, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
    “Social Learning and Content Quality under Polarization ”
    Discussant: Karthik Ramachandran, Scheller College of Business
19:00 – 22:00 Dinner: Executive Housing Mirror Pool

 

Day 2 – Wednesday, July 9, 2025

8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast (Bajaj Dining Hall)
9:10 – 9:30 Introduction (Sarang Deo, Deputy Dean, Faculty and Research, Professor, Operations Management, ISB)
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote II: Erica Plambeck (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
10:30 – 11:00 Poster Session/Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Session III: Service Operations
  1. Ramandeep Randhawa, Marshall School of Business
    “Service Operations for Justice-On-Time: A Data-Driven Queueing Approach”
    Discussant: George Shanthikumar, Krannert School of Management
  2. Tanmoy Majilla, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
    “Who Benefits from Private Schools? The Demand for Private Schools in Rural India”
    Discussant: Rakesh Mallipeddi, Fisher College of Business
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch (Atrium)
14:00-15:30 Session IV: Pharma Supply Chain
  1. Ravi Anupindi, Ross School of Business
    “Brand-Name versus Generic Drugs: An Empirical Study on Health Outcomes of Generic Atorvastatin”
    Discussant: Gad Allon, Wharton School
  2. Anant Mishra, Carlson School of Business
    “The Effects of Precision Medicine Innovation in a Competitive Drug Market: Evidence from Oncology Drugs”
    Discussant: Feryal Erhun, University of Cambridge
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Industry Session II: Mr. Harshil Parashar, AVP – Data & Analytics at Tata 1mg
17:00 – 17:15 Concluding Remarks (Sripad Devalkar, Associate Professor, Operations Management, ISB)
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