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Oded Berman

Oded  Berman

Oded Berman

Professor Emeritus of Operations Management and Statistics, Sidney C. Cooper Chair Emeritus in Business & Technology

Degrees:

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
BA, Tel Aviv University

Bio

Oded Berman is a Professor Emeritus, and the Sidney C. Cooper Emeritus Chair in Business and Technology. He is a former Associate Dean of Programs at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto.  He received his PhD (1978) in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Oded has published over 250 refereed articles and has contributed to several books in his field.  His main research interests include operations management in the service industry, location theory, network models, and stochastic inventory control.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Operations Research, a winner of the 2012 Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) Award of Merit and a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the INFORMS's Section on Location Analysis.

Academic Positions

  • Jan 2003-Jan 2019

    Sydney C. Cooper Chair in Business and Technology, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

  • July 2000-present

    Full Professor, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

  • July 1993-July 1994

    Associate Chair, Division of Management and Economics, University of Toronto at Scarborough

  • July 1992-July 1995

    Area Coordinator, Operations Management Area, Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

  • Sept 1989-Aug 1991

    Full Professor, University of Massachusetts, College of Management

  • Sept 1986-Aug 1991

    Chair, Management Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts at Boston

  • Sept 1984-Aug 1985

    Visiting Professor, Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering, The Technion, Haifa, Israel and Faculty of Management, Tel- Aviv University

  • July 1981-July 1983

    Chair, Management Science and Information Systems, Faculty of Management, University of Calgary

  • July 1980-July 1986

    Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Management

  • July 1978-July 1980

    Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Management

Selected Publications - Papers

  • Strategic Mew Product Media Planning under Emergent Channel Substitution and Synergy

    V. S. Abedi, O. Berman, D. Krass and M. Fienberg

    Production and Operations Management

    Issue:31(5)

    2022

    Pages: 2143-2166

  • Introducing Autonomous Vehicles Adoption Patterns and Impact on Social Welfare

    O. Baron, O. Berman, M. Nourinjad

    Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

    Issue:24(1)

    2022

    Pages: 352-363

  • Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Car Sharing Market

    Abouee-Mehrizi, H., Baron, O., Berman, O., Chen, D.

    Production and Operations Management

    Issue:30(1)

    2022

    Pages: 190-209

  • Placing Sensors in Sewer Networks: A System to Pinpoint New Cases of Coronavirus

    M. Nourinejad, O. Berman and R.C. Larson

    PLoS ONE

    Issue:16(4)

    2021

  • Sampling manholes to home in on SARS – COV -2-Infections

    R. C. Larson, O. Berman and M. Nourinejad

    PLOS ONE

    Issue:15(10)

    2021

  • Managing Perishable Inventory Systems with Multiple Demand Classes

    H. Abouee Mehrizi, O. Baron, O. Berman, O. and D. Chen

    Production and Operations Management

    Issue:Vol. 28

    2019

    Pages: 2153-2161

  • Threshold-Based Allocation Policies for Inventory Management of Red Blood Cell

    V. Sarhangian , H. Abouee Mehrizi, O. Baron and O. Berman

    Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

    Issue:Vol 20, No. 2

    2018

    Pages: 347-362

  • A Game between a Terrorist and a Passive Defender

    O. Baron, O. Berman and A. Gavious

    Production and Operations Management

    Issue:3, Vol. 27

    2018

    Pages: 433-457

  • Strategic Idleness and Dynamic Scheduling in an Open-shop Service Network: Case Study and Analysis

    O. Baron, O. Berman, D. Krass and J. Wang

    Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

    Issue:Vol. 19, Issue 1

    2016

    Pages: 52-71

  • Structural Properties of Voronoi Diagrams in Facility Location Problems with Continuous Demand

    I. Averbakh, O. Berman, J. Kalcsics and D. Krass

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 63, No. 2

    2015

    Pages: 394-411

  • Up and Down: Bid-Price Trends in Revenue Management

    Z. Pang, O. Berman and M. Hu

    Production and Operations Management

    Issue:Vol. 24, No. 7

    2015

    Pages: 1135-1147

  • Transhipment Policies in a Multi-Period Inventory System with Lost Sales

    H. Abouee-Mehrizi, O. Berman and S. Sharma

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 63, No. 2

    2015

    Pages: 342-350

  • Supporting New Product or Service Introductions: Location, Marketing, and Word of Mouth

    V. S. Abedi, O. Berman and D. Krass

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 62, No. 5

    2015

    Pages: 994-1013

  • Exact Analysis of Capacitated Two Echelon Inventory Systems with Priorities

    H. Abouee Mehrizi, O. Baron and O. Berman

    Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

    Issue:Vol. 16, No. 4

    2014

    Pages: 561–577

  • Using Strategic Idleness to Improve Customer Service Experience in Service Networks

    O. Baron, O. Berman, D. Krass and J. Wang

    Operations Research

    Issue:62(1)

    2014

    Pages: 123-140

  • On the Benefits of Risk Pooling in Inventory Management

    O. Berman, D. Krass and M. Mahdi Tajbakhsh

    Production and Operations Management

    Issue:Vol. 20, No. 1

    2011

    Pages: 57-71

  • Facility Location with Stochastic Demand and Constraints on Waiting Time

    O. Baron, O. Berman and D. Krass

    Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

    Issue:Vol. 10, No. 3

    2008

    Pages: 484-505

  • Facility Reliability Issues in Network p-Median Problems: Strategic Centralization and Co-location Effects

    O. Berman, D. Krass and M. Menezes

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 55, No.2

    2007

    Pages: 332-350

  • Heuristic for m-Machine Flow-Shop and its Applications in Routing-Scheduling Problems

    I. Averbakh and O. Berman

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 47, No. 1

    1999

    Pages: 165-170

  • Scheduling Workforce and Workflow in a Service Factory

    O. Berman, R.C. Larson and E. Pinker

    Management Science

    Issue:Vol. 43, No. 2

    1997

    Pages: 158-172

  • Locating Discretionary Service Facilities, II: Maximizing Market Size, Minimizing Inconvenience

    O. Berman, D. Bertsimas and R.C. Larson

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 43, No.4

    1995

    Pages: 623-632

  • The Constrained Bottleneck Problem in Networks

    O. Berman, E. Einav and G. Handler

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 38, No. 1

    1990

    Pages: 178-181

  • A Heuristic Algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Location Problem on Networks

    D. Simchi-Levi, O. Berman

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 36, No. 3

    1988

    Pages: 478-484

  • Locating a Mobile Server Queuing Facility on a Tree Network

    S. Chiu, O. Berman and R.C. Larson

    Management Science

    Issue:Vol. 31, No. 6, June

    1985

    Pages: 764-772

  • Optimal Server Location on a Network Operating as an M/G/1 Queue

    O. Berman, R.C. Larson and S. Chiu

    Operations Research

    Issue:Vol. 33, No. 4

    1985

    Pages: 746-771

Selected Publications - Books and Chapters

Research and Teaching Interests

Teaches courses in Operations Management, Logistics, Operations Management in the Service Industry, Management Science Models and Statistics.
Research includes Logistics, Operations Management in the Service Industry, Workforce Management, and Software Reliability.

Honors and Awards

  • 2014

    Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award, Rotman School of Management

  • 2014

    Best Application Paper - Scheduling and Logistics award for the paper The Maximum Covering Problem with Travel Time Uncertainty co-authored by D. Krass with I. Hajizadeh, IIE Transactions

  • 2014

    For the paper - H. Abouee Mehrizi, O. Baron, O. Berman and Vahid Sarhangian, Allocation policies in blood transfusion, Vahid Sarhangian was selected as the runner up for the CORS Student Paper Competition (Open Category), CORS

  • 2014

    For the paper - O. Baron, O. Berman, D. Krass and J. Wang, Using strategic idleness to improve customer service experience in service networks, Jeff Wang won the CORS Queuing Special Interest Group student competition, CORS

  • 2012

    Canadian Operations Research Award of Merit,

  • 2012-2017

    Research Grant for Combined Location Problems, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 2012

    Co-Winner, Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award, SOLA

  • 2011

    Fellow, Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

  • 2007

    Honorable mention of the paper Inventory-Location Models for Remote and Direct Retailing with Time-Sensitive Demand, by O. Berman, D. Krass and M. Menezes, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management

  • 2007-2012

    Research Grant for Strategical Tactical Issues in the Service Industry, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 2002- 2007

    Research Grant for Strategic and Tactical Issues in the Service Industry, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 2003-present

    Sydney Cooper Chair in Business and Technology, Rotman School of Management

  • 1998- 2002

    Research Grant for Strategic and Tactical Issues in the Service Industry, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 2000

    Roger Martin and Nancy Lang Award for Excellence in Research, Rotman School of Management

  • 1994- 1998

    Research Grant for Strategic and Tactical Issues in the Service Industry , Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 1997

    Equipment Grant for Laboratory for Manufacturing Research (with S. Sethi and D. Krass), Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 1997

    Principal's Research Award , University of Toronto at Scarborough

  • 1994-1995

    Equipment Grant for Laboratory for Manufacturing Research (with S. Sethi and D. Krass), Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 1991-1994

    Research Grant for Strategic Issues in the Service Industry, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 1985

    Levin Award, for the best paper (co-author D. Simchi-Levi) , The Israeli Society of Operations Research

  • 1984-1985

    International Collaborative Research Grant, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 1982-1985

    Research Grant for Planning for and Management of Service Networks, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 1981-1982

    Research Grant for Planning for and Management of Service Networks, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 1980-1981

    Research Grant for Information System for Service Network Planning and Management, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canada

  • 1979-1980

    Grant awarded to Analysis of Transfer Lines, University of Calgary

  • 1979-1980

    Grant awarded to Proposal for the Development of a Fire Research Centre in Alberta, Government of Alberta

  • 1972

    The Lapid Award for the best student in the Department of Statistics, Tel-Aviv University

Academic / Professional Service

  • 2011 - present

    Associate Editor, Socio Economic Planning

  • 1987 - 2014

    Associate Editor, Transportation Science

  • 1980 - 2010

    Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Computers and Operations Research

  • 1995-2009

    Associate Editor, Management Science

  • 1999-2006

    Associate Editor, Operations Research

  • 2001-2005

    Area Editor of Operational and Decision Sciences, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

  • 2001-2004

    Member of the Grant Selection Committee for Industrial Engineering , NSERC

  • 1999-2003

    Editorial Advisory Review Board, Journal of Service Research

  • 1995-1999

    Area Editor of Services, Operations Research