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    • A Review of Empirical Operations Management over the Last Two Decades 
      Terwiesch, Christian; Olivares Acuña, Marcelo; Staats, Bradley R.; Gaur, Vishal (Informs, 2020)
      We develop a database of all empirical research related to operations management in the journals Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), and Production and Operations Management (POM) ...
    • Measuring the Effect of Queues on Customer Purchases 
      Lu, Yina; Musalem Said, Andrés; Olivares Acuña, Marcelo; Schilkrut, Ariel (Informs, 2013)
      We conduct an empirical study to analyze how waiting in queue in the context of a retail store affects customers’ purchasing behavior. Our methodology combines a novel data set with periodic information about the queuing ...
    • Measuring the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural Estimation Approach 
      Kim, Sang Won; Olivares Acuña, Marcelo; Weintraub, Gabriel Y. (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2014)
      The main advantage of a procurement combinatorial auction (CA) is that it allows suppliers to express cost synergies through package bids. However, bidders can also strategically take advantage of this flexibility, ...
    • Why empirical research is good for operations management, and what is good empirical operations management? 
      Fisher, Marshall; Olivares Acuña, Marcelo; Staats, Bradley R. (Informs, 2020)
      Empirical research in operations management has increased steadily over the last 20 years. In this paper, we discuss why this is good for our field and offer some comments on the qualities we admire in an empirical operations ...