Amr Farahat

Amr Farahat

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Amr Farahat teaches business analytics and operations management courses at the graduate level. Before his current position at Olin, he served on the faculty and taught in the MBA and Specialized Masters Programs at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and MIT. His research develops mathematical models for pricing and inventory management especially in the presence of product substitution and competition. His teaching and research have been recognized by several awards. Amr holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT. His industry experience includes engagements with companies such as Unilever, British Telecom, McKinsey, Priceline.com., and advising students on numerous applied/capstone projects.

Area of Expertise

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Decision Analysis, Management Science, Math Programming, Revenue Management, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology

Education

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Ph D 2004, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Awards/Honors

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• Reid Teaching Award Master of Science in Supply Chain Management, Olin Business School, 2024
• Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching in the MSBA program, Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business, 2023
• Core Faculty Teaching Award, Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management, 2009
• First Place, Case and Teaching Materials Competition, INFORMS, 2009
• UPS Fellowship, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT, 2003
• Chevening Scholarship, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1995

Teaching Interests

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Business Analytics; Operations Management; AI-Driven Technologies

Research Interests

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Pricing and revenue management, supply chain management and competition, game theory, and optimization applications

Selected Publications

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• "The Multi-Product Newsvendor Problem with Customer Choice", Operations Research Journal, Issue 1, 123-136, with J.K. Lee, 2018
• "On the Relationship Between Quantity Precommitment and Cournot Games", Operations Research Journal, Issue 1, 109-122, with T. Huh, H. Li, 2019
• "Profit Loss in Differentiated Oligopolies", Issue 1, 43-46, with G. Perakis, 2009
• "A Comparison of Bertrand and Cournot Profits in Oligopolies with Differentiated Products", Operations Research Journal, Issue 2, 507-513, with G. Perakis, 2010
• "Airline Fleet Assignment with Enhanced Revenue Modeling: An Alternative Formulation and Solution Approach", Operations Research Journal, Issue 1, 231-244, with C. Barnhart, M. Lohatepanont, 2009
• "A Nonnegative Extension of the Affine Demand Function and Equilibrium Analysis for Multiproduct Price Competition", Issue 4, 280-286, with Georgia Perakis, 2010