Gerard P. Cachon, Ph.D.

Precision Economics, LLC
1901 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20006
Tel. (202) 530-1113
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www.precisionecon.com

• Ph.D., Operations Management
• Thesis: On the Operational Implications of Continuous Product Replenishment to the Grocery Industry. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Marshall Fisher.

• M.S, Operations Management

• B.A.S., Computer Science Engineering

• B.S., Economics

• Associate Professor, The Wharton School of Business, July 2001 to present.
• Kraft General Foods Term Associate Professor, The Wharton School of Business, July 2000 to June 2001.
• Associate Professor, The Fuqua School of Business, 1998 to 2000.
• Assistant Professor, The Fuqua School of Business, 1994 - 1998.
• Teaching Assistant, Wharton School: Operations Management Core, Fall 1993; Service Operations Management, Spring 1993; Negotiations and Decision Making, Spring and Fall 1992; Introduction to Decision Analysis, Fall 1991

1. "Managing a Retailer's Shelf Space, Inventory and Transportation," 1999, forthcoming Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
2. "Stock Wars: Inventory Competition in a Two-Echelon Supply Chain," 1997, forthcoming Operations Research.
3. Exact evaluation of batch-ordering policies in two-echelon supply chains with periodic review. Operations Research. 49(1). 79-98. 2001
4. Cachon, G. and M. Lariviere. 2001. Contracting to assure supply: how to share demand forecasts in a supply chain. Management Science. 47(5). 629-46.
5. Cachon, Gerard and Marshall Fisher, "Supply Chain Inventory Management and the Value of Shared Information," 2000, Management Science 46(8). 1032-1048.
6. Schweitzer, Maurice and Gerard Cachon, "Decision Bias in the Newsvendor Problem with a Known Demand Distribution: Experimental Evidence," 2000, Management Science, 46(3) 404-420.
7. Cachon, Gerard and Martin Lariviere, "An Equilibrium Analysis of Linear and Proportional Allocation of Scarce Capacity," 1999, IIE Transactions, 31(9), 835-850.
8. Cachon, Gerard and Martin Lariviere, "Capacity Choice and Allocation: Strategic Behavior and Supply Chain Performance," 1999, Management Science, 45(8), 1091-1108.
9. Cachon, Gerard and Paul Zipkin, "Competitive and Cooperative Inventory Policies in a 2 Stage Supply Chain," 1999, Management Science, 45(7), 936-953.
10. Cachon, Gerard, "Managing Supply Chain Demand Variability with Scheduled Ordering Policies," 1999, Management Science, 45(6), 843-856.
11. Cachon, Gerard and Martin Lariviere. 1999. Capacity allocation with past sales: when to turn-and-earn. Management Science, 45 685-703.
12. Cachon, Gerard. 1998. Competitive supply chain inventory management. in Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management. eds. S. Tayur, R. Ganeshan and M. Magazine. Boston, Kluwer.
13. Cachon, Gerard and Marshall Fisher. 1997. Campbell Soup's Continuous Product Replenishment Program: evaluation and enhanced decision rules. Production and Operations Management. 6 266-275.
14. Cachon, Gerard, and Colin Camerer. 1996. Loss avoidance and forward induction in coordination games. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, p 165-194.

Cachon, Gerard, and Martin A. Lariviere, 1998, "Past Sales and Turn-and-Earn Capacity Allocation," MSOM Conference, School of Business Administration, The University of Washington.

Cachon, Gerard, and Martin A. Lariviere, 1996, "Capacity Allocation and Private Information: Strategic Behavior in a Supply Chain," MSOM Conference, The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College.

Cachon, Gerard, 1996, "Exact Evaluation of Batch-Ordering Inventory Policies in Two-Echelon Supply Chains with Periodic Review," MSOM Conference, The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College.

Cachon, Gerard and Martin Lariviere, "Supply chain coordination with revenue sharing: strengths and limitations," June 2000.

Cachon, Gerard, "Competitive and cooperative inventory management in a two-echelon supply chain with lost sales," 1999.

Cachon, Gerard and Patrick Harker, "Service competition, outsourcing and co-production in a queuing game," 1999.

• The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (11/96).
• Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University (11/96).
• Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University (4/97).
• The Simon School, University of Rochester (11/97).
• The University of Michigan (11/97).
• Supply Chain Thought Leaders Roundtable sponsored by the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum (1/98).
• Hewlett Packard Research Labs, Palo Alto (1/98).
• University of Chicago (5/98).
• The Symposium of Mathematical Models of Inventories, University of Aarhus, Denmark (8/98).
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (10/98).
• Department of Operations Research, University of North Carolina (3/99).
• Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, The University of Michigan (4/99).
• The Anderson School, University of California at Los Angeles, (5/99).
• Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (5/99).
• Second Supply Chain Thought Leaders Roundtable, Eindhoven University (6/99).
• Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (12/99).
• Krannert School of Management, Purdue University (10/00).
• Conference on Incentives in Operations Management, Stanford University (9/00).
• Harvard Business School, Harvard University (10/00).
• Columbia Business School, Columbia University (11/00).
• School of Business Administration, The University of Washington (12/00).

• Inventory planning and control

• Product variety

• Forecasting and production scheduling

Fuqua School of Business' Daimler-Chrysler Teaching Award for Innovation and Excellence in an Elective Course, 1999

Kraft General Foods Term Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management, 1999-2000.

• OPIM Ph.D. Coordinator - July 2001 to present.
• Operations Management Seminar coordinator - July 2001 to present
• OPIM Recruiting Committee, 2000.
• Fuqua School of Business Curriculum Committee, 1998 to 2000
• Fuqua School of Business Technology Committee, 1996 to 2000
• Fuqua School of Business Ethics Committee, 1994-1995

Senior Editor, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.

Associate Editor, Management Science.

Referee for Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Logistics, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operations Research.