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Professional Preparation
Ph.D. Penn State University - 1996
MBA Penn State University - 1992
B.S. - Business Administration w/ emphasis on Finance and Economics University of California, Berkeley, CA - 1987
Research Areas
Research Expertise
Market design and strategic procurement
Behavioral operations management
Teaching Expertise
Operations and supply chain management: strategic procurement, supply chain coordination, inventory management, production planning and scheduling.
Publications
Ernan Haruvy and Elena Katok, Increasing Revenue by Decreasing Information, Production
and Operations Management, in press (2012). 2012 - Publication
Michael Becker-Peth, Elena Katok and Ulrich Thonemann, Designing Contracts for Irrational but Predictable Newsvendors, Management Science, in press (2012). 2012 - Publication
David Cantor and Elena Katok, The Bullwhip Effect and Order Smoothing in a Laboratory
Beergame, Transportation Research Part E 48, 2012, pp. 781-794. 2012 - Publication
Rachel Croson, Karen Donohue, Elena Katok and John Sterman, Order Stability in Supply
Chains: Coordination Risk and the Role of Coordination Stock, Production and Operations
Management, in press (2012). 2012 - Publication
Zhixi Wan, Damian R. Beil and Elena Katok, When does it pay to delay supplier
qualification? Management Science, in press (2012). 2012 - Publication
Elena Katok, Valery Pavlov, and Tava Olson, Wholesale pricing under mild and privately
known concerns for fairness, Production and Operations Management, in press (2012). 2012 - Publication
Elena Katok, Laboratory Experiments in Operations Management, in TutORials in Opertions
Research (J. Geunes Ed.). Presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 13-16,
2011, Chapter 2, pp. 15-35. 2011 - Publication
Elena Katok, Buyer Determined Procurement Auctions Experiments, The Oxford Handbook
of Market Design, (Alvin Roth, Nir Vulkan, Zvika Neeman and Muriel Niederle Eds.)
Oxford University Press., Oxford, UK, 2011. 2011 - Publication
Appointments
Ashbel Smith Professor University of Texas at Dallas [2012–Present]
Jindal School of Management
Co-Director University of Texas at Dallas [2012–Present]
Jindal School of Management
Endowed Fellow and Professor Penn State University [2008–2012]
Smeal College of Business
Co-Director Penn State University [2008–2012]
Smeal College of Business
Visiting Scholar University of Cologne, Germany [2007–2018]
Associate Professor with tenure Penn State University [2004–2008]
Smeal College of Buiness
Visiting Scholar Harvard University [2000–2001]
Havard Business School
Assistant Professor Penn State University [1999–2004]
Smeal College of Business
Assistant Professor Colorado School of Mines [1997–1998]
Visiting Assistant Professor State University of New York [1996–1997]
Additional Information
Honors and Awards
Winner of the 2000 Franz Edelman Award for achievement in the practice of OR&MS
A researcher gives you $10 and tells you to split the money with someone else. If the other person rejects your offer, each of you gets nothing. How much would you keep for yourself and how much would you give the other person? That’s the type of question Dr. Elena Katok might ask as part of her experiments at the Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics in the Naveen Jindal School of Management. Katok, Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management, is a pioneer in an emerging field called behavioral operations management, which studies how human behavior factors into managerial decisions. The professor helped establish the Behavioral Operations Management section of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) and helps organize its Behavioral Research in Operations Management conference, which had its 8th annual conference last week in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 2000, Katok was part of a team that won the Franz Edelman Award presented by INFORMS in 2000.
Activities
Professional Service
INFORMS Behavioral Operation Management Section, President 2010-2012.
INFORMS Behavioral Operation Management Section, Vice President 2008-2010.
Co-Organizer of the Michael H. Rothkopf Memorial Conference, at the Smeal College of
Business, Penn State University, June 1-3 2009.
The National Science Foundation DRMS review panel 2004 – 2006.
Editorial Service
Department Editor Production and Operations Management, Behavioral Operations
Department, 2012 – present.
Editor of the Special Issue on Behavioral Mechanism Design in Operations Management
in Production and Operations Management, 2011.
Editor of the Special “Michael Rothkopf Memorial” Issue on Auctions in Decision
Analysis (INFORMS journal), 2010.
Senior Editor Production and Operations Management, 2007 – 2012.
Deputy Editor, Interfaces 1999 – 2004.
Affiliations
The Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Behavioral Operations Management (BOM) Section of INFORMS