Curriculum Vitae Nicole Adler
Personal Details Current Address: Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, 2053 Main Mall, Vancouver, Canada. Address: School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel. Tel at work: +972-2-5883449 Fax at work: +972-2-5881341 E-mail: [email protected] Tel at home: +972-8-9702549 Date of Birth: 08/04/1967 Birth Place: London
Higher Education Date Institution Area Degree Advisor
1991-98 Tel Aviv University Operations Research Ph.D. Prof. Golany, Dr. Handler
1990-91 London School of Operations Research M.Sc. with Prof. Economics Distinction Rosenhead
1985-88 University of Ulster Accounting & B.Sc. (Hon) Mrs. St. Ledger Economics
Appointments at Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2005- Senior Lecturer (with tenure), School of Business Administration 2000-05 Lecturer, School of Business Administration 2008-09 Member of Rosenberg Fund Committee 2007-09 Head of Business School Alumni Organization 2001-09 Organize Multi-disciplinary Seminar at Business School 2006-09 Member of Prize Committee, Business School 2005-09 Member of Research Committee, Business School 2005-09 Member of Library Committee, Business School 2005-09 Member of Admissions Committee, Business School 2002-05 Member of Infrastructure Committee, Business School
1 Service in other Academic and Research Institutions 2010-11 Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia Visiting Professor 2009-10 Managerial Economics and Decision Science, Kellogg, Northwestern University Visiting Professor July 2009 Bremen University of Applied Sciences Ph.D. Summer School on performance analysis March 2004 Berlin University of Technology Spring School on performance analysis as Marie Curie Foundation Scholar 2001-02 Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University Visiting Professor 1998-00 Industrial Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Post doctoral position 1994-98 Graduate School of Business Management, Tel Aviv University Lecturer in: Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Game Theory, Statistics
Other Academic Activities
Academic Awards and Fellowships 2001-02 Lady Davis Fellowship Fund, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1999-00 Kreitman Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 1998-99 Pearl Resnick Scholarship for Post-Doctoral Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 1997-98 American Express Fellowship Endowment Fund for Ph.D. Studies, Tel Aviv University 1996-97 Mya Fisher David Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies in Management, Tel Aviv University 1996 El-Al Prize for Research in Air Transportation, Transport Research Center, Tel Aviv University in the name of Mordechai Ben-Arie 1994-96 American Express Fellowship Endowment Fund for Ph.D. Studies, Tel Aviv University 1990-91 Science and Education Research Council Scholarship for Masters Studies, England 1987-88 Faculty Honors List, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Scientific Reviews Annals of Operations Research Journal of Transport Economics and Policy Applied Mathematical Modeling Journal of Urban Economics Computers & Industrial Engineering Management Science Computers & Operations Research Naval Research Logistics European Journal of Operations Research Networks and Spatial Economics IIE Transactions Omega INFOR Operations Research International Journal of Production Economics Policing: An International Journal of Police Journal of Air Transport Management Strategies & Management Regional Science and Urban Economics Journal of Airport Management Transport Reviews Journal of Productivity Analysis Journal of the Operational Research Society
2 Transportation Research part A: Policy and Transportation Science Practice Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Transportation Research part B: Research and Management Science Methodological Transportation Research part E: Logistics & Transportation Review
2011- Associate Editor for the DEA Journal 2011- Associate Editor for Omega: The International Journal of Management Science 2010 Scientific review of research proposal for Hong Kong‟s Strategic Public Policy Research Council 2008-10 Editor of special issue in Transportation Research part B on transport infrastructure pricing together with Prof. Stef Proost 2000-09 Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research part B 2005 Scientific review of research proposal for the Unites States – Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF) 2000 Referee of 2 Masters Theses; Business School, Ben-Gurion University
Society Memberships 2011- Member of the International DEA Society 2011- Member of the German Aviation Research Society 2009- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hamburg Aviation Conference 2001- Member of the ATRS Airport Benchmarking Group 2000- Member of the Operations Research Societies of the U.S. (INFORMS), E.U. (EURO) and Israel (ORSIS) 1998- Affiliate of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS)
3 Research Grants Pinhas Sapir Economic Policy Forum 2010-11 Title: Multimarket Contact and Concentration in Network-Based Markets Budget: 50,000₪ Industrial Grant: XacPac Title: Connecting Gateways through the Multi-Mode Resource Constrained Cross- 2010-11 Dock Scheduling Problem Budget: $50,000 Israeli Civil Aviation Authority 2010-11 Title: Trends in Air Transport Management applied to Israel Budget: 35,000₪ Israel Science Foundation 2009-11 Title: The effect of airline-to-airline agreements Budget: 242,000 ₪ Nanzan University, Japan 2008-09 Title: Open Skies in North-East Asia Budget: $30,000 Anti-Trust Authority of Israel 2007-08 Title: Economic Effects of Codesharing Budget: 250,000₪ European Union 6th Framework Project – consortium of 12 partners Specific program: Sustainable surface transport 2005-07 Title: Funding Infrastructure: Guidelines for Europe (FUNDING) Budget: €80,000 (out of approximately €1.2 million) Fund for Research with Belgian Partner, Hebrew University 2005-06 Title: Transportation competition between modes Budget: €800 Israel Science Foundation 2004-06 Title: Competition in deregulated, global environments Budget: 256,000 ₪ University Institute for Diplomacy, Tel Aviv University 2003-04 Title: Effect of Open Skies in the Middle East Budget: $5,000 (joint with Dr. Niron Hashai) European Union 5th Framework Project – consortium of 15 partners Specific program: Promoting competitive and sustainable growth 2001-03 Title: Implementation of Marginal Cost Pricing in Transport-Integrated Conceptual and Applied Model Analysis (MC-ICAM) Budget: €37,000 (out of approximately €1.5 million) Hebrew University Research Fund 2002-03 Title: Solving multiple allocation, p-hub median problem. Budget: $3,333 Air Transport Research Group - European Team 2000- Title: Benchmarking worldwide airports, Israel Institute of Business Research 1993-99 Airport and Economics Research Section, Dutch Government Transportation modeling
4 Teaching at the Hebrew University Ph.D. students 2010- Nicola Volta, Ph.D. student, with Prof. Martini of the University of Bergamo 2008-11 Vanessa Liebert, Ph.D. student, Doctoral Committee member 2005-10 Ekaterina Yazhemsky, Ph.D. student, with Prof. Kornbluth as co-advisor 2003-11 Mali Sher, Ph.D. student, with Profs. Hakkert & Kornbluth as co-advisors
Masters students 2008-10 Tzvi Gerstl, with Dr. Niron Hashai as co-advisor 2006-07 Avigail Lithwick 2003-05 Ekaterina Yazhemsky
Courses Taught Elective/ Degree Required Operations Research Required BA Operations Management Required BA Air Transport Management & Policy Elective BA Mathematical Models in Management Required MBA Transportation Modeling Elective MBA Air Transport Management Elective MBA Productivity Management Elective MBA Seminar in Operations Research and Operations Management Elective MBA Linear Programming Required MBA /Elective Data Envelopment Analysis Elective Ph.D. Seminar in Productivity Analysis Elective Ph.D.
5 List of Publications
Doctoral Dissertation “The Choice of Optimal Multi-Hub Networks in a Liberalized Aviation Market”, degree awarded June 1999. Supervisors: Prof. Boaz Golany and Dr. Gabriel Handler.
Chapters in Collections 1. Adler N., and Golany B., (2009). Data reduction through principal component analysis (DEA-PCA). Cook W. and Zhu J. (eds): Modeling Problem Structure and Data Varieties using Data Envelopment Analysis: A Problem-Solving Handbook, Springer: New York, 139-154.
2. Adler N., Raveh A., and Yazhemsky E., (2009). Presenting DEA graphically using multi-dimensional scaling. Cook W. and Zhu J. (eds): Modeling Problem Structure and data varieties using data envelopment analysis: A Problem-Solving Handbook, Springer: New York, 171-188.
3. Adler N. (2008). Air versus high-speed rail in Europe. De Jong D., Kaashoek B. and Zondag W-J. (eds): Blue Skies or Storm Clouds: Essays on Public Policy and Air Transport, ScienceGuide: Amsterdam, 146-157.
4. Adler N., Nash C. and Niskanen E., (2005). Efficient Cost Pricing of Rail, Air and Water Transport in Europe. de Palma A. and Quinet E. (eds): La Tarification Des Transports: Enjeux et defis, ECONOMICA: Paris, 319-334.
Articles 5. Adler N. and Gellman A. (2011). Strategies for Aviation in a New Era of Risk. Journal of Air Transport Management, forthcoming.
6. Adler N. and Proost S. (2010). Introduction to special issue of Transportation Research part B: Modelling non-urban transport investment and pricing. Transportation Research part B, 44 (7), 791-794.
7. Adler N., Nash C. and Pels E. (2010). High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition: Game Engineering as Tool for Cost-Benefit Analysis. Transportation Research part B, 44 (7), 812-833.
8. Adler N., Tarvedyan R. and Yazhemsky E., (2010). Measuring the Relative Socio- Economic Performance of Developing Countries. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 44 (2), 73-88.
9. Adler N. and Yazhemsky E. (2010). Improving Discrimination in Data Envelopment Analysis: Aggregation versus Reduction. European Journal of Operational Research, 202 (1), 273-284.
10. Adler N. and Raveh A., (2008). Presenting DEA graphically. Omega – International Journal of Management Science, 36, 715-729.
11. Adler N. and Hashai N., (2007). Knowledge flows and the modeling of the multinational enterprise. The Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 639-657.
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12. Adler N. and Smilowitz K., (2007). Hub-and-spoke network alliances and mergers: Price-location competition in the airline industry. Transportation Research B, 41, 394- 409.
13. Oum T.H., Adler N. and Yu C., (2006). Privatization, corporatization, ownership forms and their effects on the performance of the world‟s major airports. Journal of Air Transport Management, 12 (3), 109-121.
14. Swan W. and Adler N., (2006). Aircraft trip cost parameters: A function of stage length and seat capacity. Transportation Research E, 42 (2), 105-115.
15. Adler N. and Hashai N., (2005). Effect of open skies in the Middle Eastern region. Transportation Research A, 39 (10), 878-894.
Published in Hebrew by The University Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation at Tel Aviv University: www.tau.ac.il/institutes/diplomacy/research.html
16. Adler N., (2005). The Effect of Competition on the Choice of an Optimal Network in a Liberalized Aviation Market with an Application to Western Europe, Transportation Science, 39 (1), 58-72.
17. Adler N. and Golany B., (2002). Including Principal Component Weights to improve discrimination in Data Envelopment Analysis, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53 (9), pp. 985-991.
18. Adler N., Friedman L. and Sinuany-Stern Z. (2002). Review of Ranking Methods in the Data Envelopment Analysis Context, European Journal of Operational Research, 140 (2), pp. 249-265. Invited Review.
19. Adler N., (2001). Competition in a Deregulated Air Transportation Market, European Journal of Operational Research, 129 (2), pp. 337-345.
20. Adler N. and Golany B., (2001). Evaluation of deregulated airline networks using data envelopment analysis combined with principal component analysis with an application to Western Europe, European Journal of Operational Research, 132 (2), pp. 260-73.
21. Adler N. and Berechman J., (2001). Evaluating Optimal Multi-Hub Networks in a Deregulated Aviation Market with an Application to Western Europe, Transportation Research A, 35 (5), pp. 373-390.
22. Adler N. and Berechman J., (2001). Measuring airport quality from the airlines' viewpoint: An application of data envelopment analysis, Transport Policy, 8 (3), pp. 171-81.
23. Israeli A.A., Adler N., Mehrez A. and Sundali J.A., (2000). Investigating the Use of Advertising for Communicating Hotels' Strategic Assets, The Journal of Hospitality and Leisure Marketing, 7 (3), pp. 23-37.
7 Proceedings 24. Adler N. and Golany B., (1999). Data Envelopment Analysis - Principal Component Analysis Formulation With An Application To The Western European Air Transportation Industry, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Athens, Greece. (Refereed Proceedings).
25. Adler N. and Berechman J., (1996). European Air Transportation Networks After Liberalization, PTRC Airport Planning Issues, P/409, The Planning and Transport Research and Computation International Association. (Refereed Proceedings).
Book Reviews Adler N., (2003). Review of “Airline Competition: Deregulation‟s Mixed Legacy” by G. Williams (Ashford Press). Journal of Air Transport Management, 9 (6), pp. 381-82.
Articles Submitted for Publication Adler N., Fu X., Oum T.H. and Yu C. (2010). Air Transport Liberalization and Airport Slot Allocation: The case of the Northeast Asian Transport Market. Adler N., Hakkert S., Kornbluth J. and Sher M. (2010). Lean Management for Traffic- Police Enforcement Planning. Adler N., Hakkert S. and Sher M. (2010). Location-Allocation Models for the Traffic- Police Routine Patrol Vehicles on an Interurban Network. Adler N. and Hanany E. (2010). Capacity Trade-Offs and Trading Capacity. Adler N. and Hashai N. (2010). Knowledge Transfer Efficiency, Competition and the Geographic and Organizational Boundaries of Multinational Enterprises. Adler N. and Liebert V. (2010). Impacts of Competition, Ownership Form and Regulation on Airport Cost Efficiency. Adler N., Liebert, V., Yazhemsky E. (2010). Airport Benchmarking from a Managerial Perspective. Proost S., Dunkerley F., Van der Loo S., Adler N., Brocker J. and Korzhenevych A. (2010). Is the Selection of European Transport Investments Economically Efficient?
Refereed Reports FUNDING Consortium, (2007). “Long Distance Passenger Infrastructure and Pricing in the Air Transport and High-Speed Rail Market”, Technical Report WP 5.3, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/funding/). FUNDING Consortium, (2006). “Economics of European Infrastructure Funds: Methodology”, Technical Report D1, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/funding/). FUNDING Consortium, (2006). “Funding Scenarios for EU Infrastructure Fund and Mark- ups”, Technical Report D2, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/funding/). MC-ICAM Consortium, (2002). “Second best marginal cost pricing approach to setting rail, air and water charges”, Technical Report D5, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.mcicam.net). MC-ICAM Consortium, (2002). “Modeling and Cost Benefit Framework”, Technical Report D3, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.mcicam.net). MC-ICAM Consortium, (2002). “Marginal cost pricing approach to setting airport charges”, Technical Report WP 5.3, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.mcicam.net). Air Transport Research Society, (2002). “The First Annual ATRS Airport Benchmarking Report: Global Standards for Airport Excellence”, International Air Transport Association, (http://www.atrsworld.org/new_publication.htm).
8 Adler N. and Berechman J., (1999). “Methodology and Measurement of Airport Quality from the Airlines' Viewpoint and its Effect on an Airline's Choice of a West-European Hub Airport”, Final Report (Two Volumes), The Netherlands Ministry of Transportation, Directorate General of Aviation. Adler N. and Berechman J., (1996). “Optimal Hub Policy Affecting Aircraft Movement and Hub Choice by Airlines”, Final Report (Two Volumes), The Netherlands Ministry of Transportation, Directorate General of Aviation. Adler N. and Berechman J., (1994). “A Network Model for the Evaluation of the Impact of European Aviation Markets Liberalization on the Position of Schiphol Airport”, Final Report (Two Volumes), The Netherlands Ministry of Transportation, Directorate General of Aviation.
Invited Talks 2/2011 Sauder School of Business, Aviation Seminar Series, University of British Columbia, Canada 2/2011 German Aviation Research Society Conference, Hamburg, Germany 2/2011 Hamburg Aviation Conference, Hamburg, Germany 1/2011 Sauder School of Business, Operations and Logistics Department, University of British Columbia, Canada 11/2010 European Business School Conference on the Environment and Transport, Wiesbaden, Germany 11/2010 German Aviation Research Society Conference, Berlin, Germany 11/2010 Department of Economics, Dresden University, Germany 4/2010 Civil Engineering, Coimbra University, Portugal 4/2010 M.I.T.-Portugal Ph.D. aviation workshop, Lisbon, Portugal 4/2010 Kellogg Operations Seminar, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States 2/2010 World Bank roundtable on “Performance measurement in public transport and utilities”, Embry Riddle University, Florida, United States 2/2010 Hamburg Aviation Conference, Hamburg, Germany 12/2009 Business School, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China 11/2009 German Aviation Research Society Conference, Berlin, Germany 10/2009 University of California at Berkeley, United States 7/2009 German Aviation Research Society Conference, Bremen, Germany 2/2009 German Aviation Research Society Conference, Hamburg, Germany 2/2009 Hamburg Aviation Conference, Germany 10/2008 OECD roundtable on “Airline competition, Systems of airports and Intermodal connections”, Paris, France 5/2008 International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China 4/2008 Economics Department, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 4/2008 Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 1/2008 Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion, Israel Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3/2007 Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion, Israel 4/2006 Tinbergen Institute, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
9 3/2004 Infratrain, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany 12/2003 Complexity Conference, December 2003, Jerusalem, Israel 11/2003 German Aviation Research Society Conference, November 2003, Leipzig, Germany 11/2003 Applied Economics Seminar, Economics Dept., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 5/2003 IMPRINT EU-funded conference, Leuven, Belgium 2/2003 Fortis Bank Chair, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 6/2002 Optimization Technology Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States 4/2002 Dept. of Ind. and Operations Eng., University of Michigan, United States 4/2002 Center for Transp. Studies, MIT, Boston, United States 3/2002 Ind. & Systems Eng., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States 3/2002 Civil Engineering Dept., University of California at Berkeley, United States 2/2002 Harriman School of Business, State University of New York, Stonybrook, United States 11/2001 College of Business Admin., University of Missouri, St. Louis, United States 11/2001 Transportation Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States 11/2001 Dept. of Civil Eng., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States 11/2001 Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Washington, United States 9/2001 Ind. Eng. and Mgment. Sci., Northwestern University, Chicago, United States 8/2001 Operations Research Dept., London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom 8/1998 16th European Summer Institute Warwick University, United Kingdom (selected to represent Israeli O.R. Society, presented 2 hour paper on part of Ph.D. thesis)
Conferences 8/2011 9th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, Thessaloniki, Greece 6/2011 1st INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop on “Congestion Management of Transportation Systems on the Ground and in the Air”, Asilomar, United States 11/2010 INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, Austin, United States 10/2009 INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, San Diego, United States 6/2009 13th ATRS Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 7/2008 12th ATRS Conference, Athens, Greece 6/2008 The North American Productivity Workshop, New York University, United States 5/2008 ORSIS Yearly Conference, Shfayim, Israel 9/2007 2nd International Conference on Funding Transport Infrastructure, Leuven, Belgium EURO, Prague, Czech Republic 11th ATRS Conference, Berkeley, United States 11th World Conference on Transport Research, Berkeley, United States 11/2006 INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, Pittsburgh, United States 5/2006 ORSIS Yearly Conference, Nahariya, Israel 1/2006 Israel Society of Transport Research, The Technion, Israel ISOLDE, University of Seville, Spain International Symposium of DEA, Aston University, United Kingdom
10 10th World Conference on Transport Research, Istanbul, Turkey 8th ATRS Conference, Istanbul, Turkey 7th ATRS Conference, Toulouse, France EURO – INFORMS, Istanbul, Turkey 6th ATRS Conference, Seattle, United States (participated in opening conference panel on the economics of security, chaired a session & presented 2 papers) INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, Miami, United States 9th World Conference on Transport Research, Seoul, Korea 5th ATRG Conference, Cheju Island, Korea EURO, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands (chaired session & presented 2 papers) ORSIS Yearly Conference, Zichron Yaakov, Israel 4th ATRG Conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 17th EURO, Budapest University, Hungary ORSIS Yearly Conference, Eilat, Israel Euro Working Group in DEAPM, Copenhagen Royal Agricultural University, Denmark ORSIS Yearly Conference, Dead Sea, Israel 15th EURO–34th INFORMS, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain 24th European Transport Forum, Brunel University, United Kingdom 14th EURO, Hebrew University, Israel
Popular Talks 3/2011 Hillel House, University of British Columbia on “Transportation and Game Theory” http://cc.cfhu.org/docs/Connecting/Connecting_Spring2011.pdf http://blog.newvoices.org/?p=7276 5/2010 American Friends of Hebrew University, Chicago, United States on “Competition between High Speed Rail and Air Transport” 7/2007 Israel Society of Transport Research, Tel Aviv, Israel commenting on the Israeli Government‟s „Open Skies‟ policy statement 11/2005 Organized Colloquium entitled “Mergers and Competition in the Airline Industry: Open Skies Policies” which included a lecture session (with Prof. William Swan of Boeing, Dani Morag of the Israeli CAA and myself) and a panel session with Israeli executives in the field (Miky Gat, Tourism Ministry; Yael Katan, British Airways; Avner Gordon, Swiss; Sabina Biran, Israir; Yoav Levy, El Al). Concluded in media reports in Globes, The Marker, Jerusalem Post and Makor Rishon.
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