The course provides the basics of behavioral operation with applications to different supply chain management problems. The topics to be covered include:
- cognitive biases in decision making and incorporation of biases into supply chain models
- descriptive vs. prescriptive decisions: newsvendor model with behavioral factors; newsvendor models with risk preferences (expected utility, Value-at-Risk (VaR), Conditional VaR (CVaR))
- designing, conducting and analyzing laboratory experiments
- supplier-buyer interactions: classcial supply chain contracts and coordination (standard game theory)
- behavioral game theory and social preferences like trust, fairness and reciprocity
- advanced topics