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Present	Associate Professor of Management Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Operations and Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management, Behavioral Operations Management, Operational Risk Management

Statistical Analysis for Managers
Supply Chain Management
Operational Risk Management

2007	PhD, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities ‐ Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Articles (10)

Do Competing Suppliers Maximize Profits as Theory Suggests? An Empirical ...

Trends and Research in the Decision Sciences: Best Papers from the 2014 Annual Conference (2015)

Ehsan Elahi and Roger Blake

This research compares results from laboratory experiments with predictions from theory for decisions made by competing suppliers. We consider a ...

An Integrated Outsourcing Framework: Analyzing Boeing’s Outsourcing Program for ...

Knowledge and Process Management (2014)

Ehsan Elahi, Mehdi Sheikhzadeh and Narasimha Lamba

This paper analyzes the outsourcing model which Boeing devised to develop its latest commercial airplane model: Dreamliner (B787). The development ...

Outsourcing through Competition: What is the Best Competition Parameter?

International Journal of Production Economics (2013)

In this paper we consider a single buyer who wants to outsource the manufacturing of a product to N potential ...

Product Bundling: Impacts of Product Heterogeneity and Risk Considerations

International Journal of Production Economics (2013)

Mehdi Sheikhzadeh and Ehsan Elahi

Bundling has been extensively studied in the literature and its benefits have been manifested through three perspectives of achieving better ...

How Risk Management Can Turn into Competitive Advantage: Examples and ...

Foresight (2013)

In light of the occurrence of many disruptive events since the beginning of this millennium, we can observe a change ...

How can we improve the performance of supply chain contracts ...

International Journal of Production Economics (2013)

Ehsan Elahi, Narasimha Lamba and Chinthana Ramaswamy

Although optimal forms of supply chain contracts have been widely studied in the literature, it has also been observed that ...

Outsourcing via Service Competition

Management Science (2007)

Ehsan Elahi, Saif Benjaafar and Karen Donohue

We consider a single buyer who wishes to outsource a fixed demand for a manufactured good or service at a ...

Outsourcing to Non-Identical Suppliers via Service Competition

Procedding of M&SOM Conference Atlanta, Georgia (2006)

Ehsan Elahi, Saif Benjaafar and Karen Donohue

In this paper, we consider a single buyer who wishes to outsource a fixed demand for a manufactured good or ...

Inventory Competition in Make-to-Stock Systems

Management Science and Information Systems Faculty Publication Series (2003)

Ehsan Elahi, Saif Benjaafar and Karen Donohue

We present models for competition among multiple suppliers for demand from a single manufacturer. The suppliers produce to stock a ...

INVENTORY COMPETITION IN MAKE-TO-STOCK SYSTEMS

Proceedings of the Fourth Aegean Conference on Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Samos, Greece (2003)

Ehsan Elahi, Saif Benjaafar and Karen Donohue

We present models for competition among multiple suppliers for demand from a single manufacturer. The suppliers produce to stock a ...

Contribution to Book

WHEN STRATEGY DOES NOT MATCH CAPABILITIES: LESSONS FROM THE SUPPLY ...

Cases on Supply Chain and Distribution Management: Issues and Principles (2012)

Ehsan Elahi and Narasimha Lamba

During the early 2000’s the Boeing Company was experiencing a market shrink due to a downturn in the aerospace industry ...

Unpublished Paper

An Experimental Investigation of Outsourcing through Competition

Ehsan Elahi and Roger Blake

Our research uses laboratory experiments to examine the theoretical results of competition between suppliers in an outsourcing setup. We consider ...

Unpublished Paper

Optimal Service-Based Competition with Heterogeneous Suppliers

Ehsan Elahi, Saif Benjaafar and Karen L. Donohue

We investigate how a competition can be designed to maximize expected profit for a buyer who wishes to allocate demand ...

Unpublished Paper

Risk Considerations in Product Bundling

Ehsan Elahi and Mehdi Sheikhzadeh

While bundling literature focuses on risk neutral decision makers (retailers), in this study, we portray a new perspective by addressing ...