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February 11, 2019 MATTHEW J. SOBEL Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-7235 Phone: (216) 368-6003 E-mail: [email protected] CURRENTLY Case Western Reserve University: William E. Umstattd Professor Emeritus of Industrial Economics Professor Emeritus of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management HONORS 2014 Distinguished Fellow, MSOM (Manufacturing and Services Operations Management Society) 2014 Best Paper Award, iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management) 2014 Theodore M. Alfred Distinguished Service Faculty Award (Case Western Reserve University) 2004 Fellow, INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) 1986 University Lead Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers 1983 Lanchester Prize Honorable Mention, Operations Research Society of America Sigma Xi (science) Alpha Pi Mu (industrial engineering) RESEARCH (CURRENT) Coordination of operations with finance Stochastic optimization Preference theory and its applications EDUCATION Stanford University Ph.D., Operations Research, 1967 Columbia University A.M., Mathematical Statistics, 1964 Columbia University B.S., Industrial Engineering, 1960 Columbia College A.B., Liberal Arts, Pre-engineering, 1959 LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITY Chair, Department of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, 2012 – 2013 (Acting Chair, July –December 2013). Chair, Department of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, 1999-2006. Dean, W. Averell Harriman School for Management and Policy, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1992 - 1995; Acting Dean 1991-1992. Coordinator of management science and operations management (and information systems until 1983), College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1978 - 1986. Co-Coordinator of the master's degree Management Science concentration, School of Organization and Management, Yale University, 1976 - 1977. Coordinator of the stochastic models area in the Ph.D. program, Department of Administrative Science, Yale University, 1975 - 1976. Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Administrative Sciences, Yale University, 1971 - 1973. Chief, Plans and Projections Unit, Delaware Estuary Study, Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control, U.S. Public Health Service, HEW, 1962 - 1964. OTHER ACTIVITIES Scientific Advisory Board, Center for the Study of the Environment. Academic Advisory Board founding member, Envir. Sci., Central European University. Associate Editor, Operations Research, Management Science, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Organizing committees of national and international meetings. Chair of committees and offices in professional societies. Consultation for business firms and government agencies. Numerous grants and contracts from the U.S. National Science Foundation and other government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and businesses. Many invited seminars and papers at universities and international meetings. PREVIOUS POSITIONS New York University, 1997 – 1998: Visiting Professor of Operations Management and Statistics, Leonard N. Stern School of Business. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986 – 1998: Leading Professor, W. Averell Harriman School for Management & Policy, Dept. of Applied Mathematics & Statistics (College of Eng. & Appl. Sci.), Center for Game Theory in Economics (Department of Economics) Georgia Institute of Technology, 1977 - 1986: Professor, College of Management and School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. University of Arizona, 1982 - 1983: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Management Information Systems, College of Business and Public Administration. Yale University, 1971 - 1977: Associate Professor, tenured, School of Organization and Management (Department of Administrative Sciences until 1974). Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Louvain, Belgium, 1970 - 1971: Yale University Junior Faculty Fellow. Yale University, 1967 - 1971: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Administrative Sciences. Santa Clara University, 1966 - 1967: Instructor, Dept. of Economics. University of California, Berkeley 1965 - 1966: Lecturer, Dept. of Statistics, Berkeley Extension. Stanford Research Institute, 1964 - 1966: Operations Analyst, Industrial Operations Research Group. U.S. Public Health Service, 1962 - 1964: Engineer, Delaware Estuary Study, Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control. Western Electric Co., Inc., 1960 - 1962: Operations Analyst, Headquarters Operations Research Group. Ph.D. DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED OR CO-ADVISED Colin Bell (1969; Microsoft Corporation) Arun P. Sanghvi (1973; Senior Consultant, RCG/Hagler, Bailly, Inc., Washington, D.C.). Wayne Winston (1975; Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Indiana University). Roy Mendelssohn (1976; Supervisory Research Operations Analyst, U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service). Annie Thomas (1977). Paul Zipkin (1977; T. Austin Finch Sr. Professor Emeritus, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University). Mordechai Henig (1978; Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Management, University of Tel Aviv, retired). Mokrane Bouakiz (1985; Senior Analyst, AT&T). Kun-Jen Chung (1985; Distinguished Professor, Chung Yuan Christian University (Taiwan); Retired Dean and Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology). Madhvi Shinde (1991) Charu Sinha (1994; Assistant Professor, Chapman University). Susan Monroe (1994; Head, Operations Analysis Grp., Weyerhauser Fine Papers Division). Sr. Joan Harnett (1997; Associate Professor, Manhattan College). Atrayee Bhattacharjee (2002). Volodymyr Babich (co-advisor) (2003; Lapeyre Family Term Associate Professor, Georgetown University) HuiChen Chiang (2003; Associate Professor; Ming Chuan University (Taiwan)) Jiang Zhang (2004; Associate Professor, Adelphi University) Yuanjie He (co-advisor) (2005; Associate Professor, California State University, Pomona) Qiaohai (Joice) Hu (2005; Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis) Vera Tilson (2006; Associate Professor, University of Rochester) Xiang Fang (2007; Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Danko Turcic (2008; Associate Professor, Washington University) Ludmila Zheltova (2009) Wei Wei (2012; PNC Bank, Cleveland) BOOKS PUBLISHED Stochastic Models in Operations Research, Volume I: Stochastic Processes and Operating Characteristics (with Daniel P. Heyman), McGraw-Hill, New York, 1982. Stochastic Models in Operations Research, Volume I: Stochastic Processes and Operating Characteristics (with Daniel P. Heyman), Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2004. Stochastic Models in Operations Research, Volume II, Stochastic Optimization (with Daniel P. Heyman), McGraw-Hill, New York, 1984. Japanese translation, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam through Tuttle- Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo, 1995. Stochastic Models in Operations Research, Volume II, Stochastic Optimization (with Daniel P. Heyman), Dover Publications, Mineola, NY, 2004. Handbook of Operations Research and Management Science, Volume 2: Stochastic Models, Co- Editor (with Daniel P. Heyman), sponsored by INFORMS, Elsevier-North Holland, Amsterdam, 1990. PAPERS AND CHAPTERS BY TOPIC Environmental Optimization & Operations Economics Management Stochastic Models Management 80b, 80c, 80d, 64a, 65a, 65b, 69a, 71b, 73b, 74b, 69b, 69c, 70a, 81a, 82c, 92b, 71c, 75b, 75c, 75a, 76b, 77a, 80a, 70b, 70c, 71a, 93a, 97a, 04a, 75d, 76a, 80b, 80d, 81a, 82a, 82b, 73a, 74a, 92a, 10a,10b, 10c, 80c, 89a, 95b, 85a, 87a, 87b, 90a, 95a, 95e, 98a, 11a, 12b, 13a 95c, 99a, 07b 90b, 90c, 91a, 94b, 01a, 02a, 02b, 10a, 10b, 12a, 13d, 04a, 04b, 05a, 13e, 16a, 18d 07a, 08a, 09a, 10a, 10c, 11a, 11b,12b, 12a, 13b,13e, 16a, 18a, 18b, 18c AVAILABLE AT SSRN [17b] “Easy Affine Markov Decision Processes: Algorithms and Applications” (with J. Ning), available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=29987868 [18b] “Collaboration with a Supplier to Induce Fair Labor Practices: Risk, Reputation, and Profit” (with S.. A.Slotnick), available at https://ssrn.com/abstract= REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS [18c] “Financial Incentives to Avoid Major Quality Problems in a Supply Chain,” (with S. A. Slotnick), in Emerging Technology and Advances in Supply Chain Finance and Risk Management, co-edited by P. Kouvelis, L. Dong, and D. Turcic, NOW Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands, to appear. [11a] “Production/Inventory Management and Capital Structure” (with Q. Hu and L. Li), pp. 327-362 in Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains, co-edited by P. Kouvelis, O. Boyabatli, L. Dong, and R. Li, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 2011. [10a] “The Trojan Horse of Time-Risk Preference Representations,” Risk and Optimization in an Uncertain World: Tutorials in Operations Research 2010, pp. 99-115, John J. Hasenbein ed., Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Hanover, MD, 2010. [08a] “Risk Pooling,” pp.155-174 in When Intuition Fails: Insights From Basic Operations Management Models and Principles, D.Chhajed and T. Lowe (eds.), Springer, New York, 2008. REFEREED PAPERS PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED [18d] “Easy Affine Markov Decision Processes” (with J. Ning), Operations Research, to appear. [18a] “Production and Capacity Management with Internal Financing” (with J. Ning), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 20, No. 1, 147-160, 2018. [16a] “Optimality of the Fastest Available Server” (with C. Sinha and W. P. Millhiser), Queueing Systems, Vol. 84, No. 3, 237-263, 2016. [13a]