Damian R. Beil
Assistant Professor of Operations and Management Science
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Email: dbeil_at_umich_dot_edu
Phone: (734) 936-5934
701 Tappan Street, R4422
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234
Primary Research Interests: Procurement, online auctions, pricing, health care.
Published Papers
8. Solving Truckload Procurement Auctions Over An Exponential Number of Bundles, (with Richard Chen, Shervin AhmadBeygi, Amy Cohn and Amitabh Sinha), 2009. To appear in Transportation Science. (Data files.)
7. Total-Cost Procurement Auctions: Impact of Suppliers' Cost Adjustments on Auction Format choice, (with Dimitris Kostamis and Izak Duenyas), 2009. To appear in Management Science.
6. Supply Disruptions, Asymmetric Information and a Backup Production Option, (with Zhibin (Ben) Yang, Goker Aydin and Volodymyr Babich), 2009. Management Science, 55: 192-209.
5. RFQ Auctions with Supplier Qualification Screening, (with Zhixi Wan), 2008. To appear in Operations Research.
4. A Pooling Analysis of Two Simultaneous Online Auctions, (with Lawrence M. Wein), 2009. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 11: 33-51. (Online appendix.)
3. An Inverse-Optimization-Based Auction Mechanism to Support a Multi-Attribute RFQ Process, (with Lawrence M. Wein), 2003. Management Science, 49: 1529-1545.
2. Analysis and Comparison of Multimodal Cancer Treatments, (with Lawrence M. Wein), 2002. IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied to Medicine and Biology, 18: 343-376.
1. Sequencing Surgery, Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy: Insights from a Mathematical Analysis, (with Lawrence M. Wein), 2002. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 74: 279-286.
Working Papers
Bargaining Power and Supply Base Diversification, (with Zhixi Wan), 2008. MSOM 2008 Student Paper Competition Finalist (link to published abstract). Under submission.
Supply Disruptions, Asymmetric Information and a Dual Sourcing Option, (with Zhibin (Ben) Yang, Goker Aydin and Volodymyr Babich), 2008. Under submission.
Auctions to Learn Consumer Demand for a Product with a Short Selling Horizon, (with Matthew L. Potoff), 2007. Under submission.
Teaching
Operations Management (MBA). Winter 2008-9.
Operations Management (BBA). Winter 2004-7.
Procurement Research Seminar (PhD). Fall 2005.
Multidisciplinary Action Project faculty advisor (MBA). Winter 2004-6 (10 projects).
Tauber Manufacturing Institute faculty advisor (MBA, MS). Summer 2004-8 (5 projects).
Honors and Awards:
BBA Teaching Excellence Award, voted by 2007 Graduating BBA class
NSF Grant, Simplified Bidding and Solution Structures for Combinatorial Procurement Auctions, DMI-0620153, $149,114, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2009 (with Amy Cohn (PI), & Amitabh Sinha)
NSF Grant, Supply Risk Management and Asymmetric Information, CMMI-0800158, $220,000, September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2010 (with Volodymyr Babich (PI), & Goker Aydin)
2002 Nicholson Student Paper Competition Finalist