Department Events
 Research Camps

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The Marketing & Logistics Research Camps provide opportunities for faculty members and PhD students to learn from one another and welcome guests to the department. Feel free to explore the past presentations below!

2020 Marketing Research Camp 

2020 Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research Camp 

  • Professor Stan Griffis (Michigan State University) - “Engaging in Interdisciplinary Research: A Preliminary Look Into Wildlife Trafficking”
    • Business college Dean’s continue to request faculty engage in interdisciplinary, funded research. However, business-centric grant funding sources are extremely limited, necessitating business faculty to apply their methods to contexts outside the standard business realm. Prof. Griffis will describe the grant process, and context of a recently funded NSF project where he is applying methods typical to supply chain research, but in a wildlife trafficking setting. Using data gathered through field work, he will show how the multi-disciplinary team is applying non-wildlife conservation techniques to a novel problem in West Africa.
  • Mr. Kevin O’Marah (Director, Amazon) - “Digitization and Sustainability in Supply Chains”
    • Digitization in supply chain management is impacting nearly all areas of work and strategy. Among the most important is the effect of digital technologies on sustainability in supply chain design. Technologies for deeper data analytics, granular work automation and precise condition sensing offer huge gains in material and energy efficiency as well as breakthroughs in the chain of accountability. This session will describe a high level blueprint for mapping specific digital technologies against sustainability impact vectors and explore examples of early success.
  • Professor Jennifer Blackhurst (Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, University of Iowa) - “Understanding Supply Chain Risk at the Network Level: Designing Supply Chain Resilience”
    • Supply chain risk and resilience continues to be a topic of interest to both researchers and practitioners alike. This large and complex topic can be studied on different levels (individual decision making, firm resilience, supply chain network resilience) and through different lens and theoretical foundations. In this presentation, we will discuss the different ways to look at risk and resilience starting from individual decision making through network level insights and challenges. The majority of our discussion will focus on network level research opportunities to develop interesting and relevant work in this area.
  • Professor Elliot Rabinovich (AVNET Professor of Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University) - “Scalability in Platforms for Local Groceries: An Examination of Indirect Network Economies”
    • Despite a significant rise in consumer interest in local food, supply constraints limit consumer access to these products in many markets. Online platforms for local foods may help solve these constraints. We study this problem by analyzing a two‐sided platform subject to indirect network effects. If present, these effects will cause consumer demand for products sold through this platform to rise in the number of vendors and they will also cause supplier demand for product distribution through the platform to increase in consumer demand. Our analyses reveal the existence of these indirect network effects, as consumers prefer a variety of local vendors and vendors derive greater surplus from greater consumer demand.
  • Professor William A. Muir (Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School) - “Classification and Regression In Supply Chains Using Machine Learning"
    • This presentation introduces several applications of machine learning to supply management, discuss organizational and technical challenges common to the public and private sectors with integrating machine learning into business processes, and explore opportunities for logistics and supply chain management research.

Past Research Camps

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