W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity

Doctoral Fellows

The center bridges theory and practice by placing a doctoral student in a company to work on a project designed by the student and a faculty member. The center sponsors applied research by doctoral students in a variety of organizations. Students have the opportunity to use company data to validate academic hypotheses, increasing their exposure to industry problems and enhancing the relevance of their research.

Doctoral Fellows Guidelines 2013 (PDF)

Projects selected in 2012:

• “The Effects of Access to Mainstream Financial Services on the American Poor: Evidence from Data on Recipients of Financial Education”
  Student: Assaf Shtauber (2013), Finance and Economics Division
  Advisor: Gur Huberman, Professor, Columbia Business School

• “Pricing Managed Lanes”
  Student: Caner Gocmen (2013), Decision, Risk, and Operations
  Advisor: Robert Phillips, Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Business School

• “Organizational Efficiency and Hierarchical Functioning Following the Implementation of a Mobility Initiative”
  Student: Eric Anicich (2016), Management Division
  Advisor: Adam Galinsky, Professor, Columbia Business School

• “Dynamic Matching in residential Real Estate Markets”
  Student: Hua Zheng (2014), Decision, Risk, and Operations
  Advisor: Costis Maglaras, Professor, Columbia Business School, and Ciamac Moallemi, Associate Professor, Columbia Business School

• “Telling the Hot from the Not: Dynamic Matching of users to Content on the Internet"
  Student: Yoni Gur (2014), Decision, Risk, and Operations
  Advisor: Omar Besbes, Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School, and Assaf Zeevi, Professor, Columbia Business School

• “Consequences of New Channel Adoption: Addressing the Self-Selection Problem"
  Student: Hasan Tolga Bilgicer (2013), Marketing Division
  Advisor: Don Lehmann, Professor, Columbia Business School

• “The Effect of Dynamics Incentives on Borrowers Rapayment Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment at a Department Store"
  Student: Andres Liberman (2013), Finance and Economics Division

  Advisor: Daniel Paravisini, Professor, London School of Economics

Projects selected in 2011:

• “Analyzing Agent Productivity in Service Delivery Systems”
  Student: Yina Lu (2013), Decision, Risk, and Operations
  Advisor: Marcelo Olivares, Associate Professor, Columbia Business School

• “Competition and Market Structure in Online Display Advertising with Ad Exchange”
  Student: Santiago Balseiro (2013), Decision, Risk, and Operations
  Advisors: Omar Besbes, Assistant Professor and Gabriel Weintraub, Associate Professor, Columbia Business School

• “Endogeneity and Price Sensitivity in Customized Pricing”
  Student: Ahmet Serdar Simsek (2013), Decision, Risk, and Operations
  Advisors: Robert L. Phillips, Professor of Professional Practice, and Garrett van Ryzin, Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise, and Chair, Decision, Risk, and Operations

• “Enhancing Healthcare OM Research via Collaboration with Kaiser Permanente”
  Student: Hailey Song-Hee Kim (2013), Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
  Advisor: Carri W. Chan, Assistant Professor, Columbia Business School, and Marcelo Olivares

• “Portfolio Execution with Short-Term Predictability”
  Student: Mehmet Saglam (2013), Decision, Risk, and Operations
  Advisor: Ciamac C. Moallemi, Associate Professor, Columbia Business School

• “Structural Estimation of a Large-Scale Procurement Combinatorial Auction: The Chilean School-meal Project”
  Student: Sang Won Kim (2013), Decision, Risk, and Operations
  Advisors:Marcelo Olivares and Gabriel Y. Weintraub, Associate Professor, Columbia Business School

To know more about the selected projects, please click here.