[Msom-society] Fourth Mini-Conference on Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply Chains, June 1-2, 2007

[Ling Dong]

The Fourth Mini-Conference on Integrated Risk Management in Operations
and Global Supply Chains

 

Boeing Center on Technology, Information and Manufacturing 

at Olin School of Business, Washington University-St. Louis

and 

Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of
Michigan

 

June 1-2, 2007

St. Louis, Missouri

 

The Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) research field has been
expanding its horizons both in terms of thematic coverage and research
tools employed. In the last decade GSCM has reoriented its focus beyond
the traditional study of complicated global logistics issues and towards
the development of Integrated Risk Management (IntRiM) approaches to
handle the multiplicity and magnitude of risk factors, such as demand
and supply uncertainty, volatile exchange rates and other macroeconomic
factors, and uncertain commodity prices faced by operations managers
operating complex, and often outsourced, supply chains in a global
network economy. These approaches are of a cross-functional nature
building upon a better understanding of the interfaces of operational
and financial decisions, and effectively leveraging the institutional
richness of research in the fields of finance and operations.  

 

The Fourth Mini-Conference on Integrated Risk Management in Operations
and Global Supply Chain Management, building upon the success of
previous mini-conferences at Washington University and The University of
Michigan, is intended to facilitate and stimulate interactions and
knowledge sharing mostly among academic researchers, but with some
selective industry speaker presence to discuss the interfaces and gaps
between academic and industry, on important issues of risk management in
SCM. The conference features a single track of presentations that
combine technical presentations, industry practices, and discussions on
relevant challenges and approaches in the topic area over one and a half
day. There will be eight 75-minute sessions. Each session has two 30
minutes presentations, followed by a discussant giving an overview of
related research and leading a discussion of the session participants. A
short coffee break will follow each session. The format intends to
facilitate a thought leadership conference that goes beyond stimulating
research presentations to constructively challenge current practices and
research paradigms, while giving the opportunity for productive
interactions among speakers and other conference participants. 

 

The conference is sponsored by Boeing Center on Technology, Information
and Manufacturing (BCTIM) at Olin School of Business, Washington
University-Saint Louis, and is jointly organized by BCTIM and the
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering of University of
Michigan.

 

The conference program has been set. Among the topics to be covered by
the speakers and discussants are:

 

*	Risk Preferences and Global Supply Chains
*	Interfaces of Operational and Financial Decisions
*	Financial Hedging and Implications for Operations

*	Information and Risk Management

*	Industrial Applications of Integrated Risk Management

*	Integrated risk management & the Global Environment

 

Among our distinguished speakers and discussants are:

 

Vlad Babich

University of Michigan

Onur Boyabatli

INSEAD

John Birge

University of Chicago

Metin Cakanyildirim

UT Dallas

Lingxiu Dong

Washington University

Debra Elkins

General Motors

Genaro Gutierrez

UT Austin

Suzhou Huang

Ford Motors

Steve Kou

Columbia University

Rong Li

Singapore Management University

Jussi Keppo

University of Michigan

Panos Kouvelis

Washington University

Bryan Routledge

Carnegie Mello University

Parkash Shimpi

Towers Perrin

Matt Sobel

Case Western Reserve University

Jeffrey Williams

UC Davis

Yi Xu

University of Miami

 

 

We welcome interested researchers and industry practitioners to attend
this conference. However, we reserve the right to restrict the finally
confirmed participants based on our space and budget considerations.
Please express interest in participating by May 10, 2007 by emailing our
Conference Coordinator, Ms. Gina Kisner at kisner at wustl.edu.  The
conference will be free of charge for the confirmed-to-attend academic
and industry participants. The detailed conference schedule will be
emailed to all confirmed participants by May 20, 2007.

We look forward to welcoming you in June.

 

Conference Organizing Committee: 

                       

Panos Kouvelis and Lingxiu Dong,   Washington University in St. Louis

Romesh Saigal, Vlad Babich, and Jussi Keppo, University of Michigan

Nicola Secomandi, Carnegie Mellon University

 

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