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Opher  Baron Associate Professor   Degrees   Ph.D, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MBA, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology B.Sc, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Email

Positions Held Academic Positions 2009-present   Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto 2009-2010   Visiting Associate Professor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology 2003   Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management, the University of Toronto

Selected Articles and Papers "Managing perishable inventories" Baron, O. , Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science edited by James J. Cochran , 2010, Forthcoming "Now playing: DVD allocation for a multi-location rental firm" Baron, O., Hajizadeh, I., Milner, J., Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2010, Forthcoming "Shelf-space management when demand depends on the inventory level" Baron, O., Berman, O., Perry, D., Production and Operations Management, 2010, Forthcoming "Continuous Inventory Models for perishable items ordered in batches" Baron, O., Berman, O., Perry, D., Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Vol 72. Issue(2), 2010, 217-247 "location: A robust optimization approach" Baron, O., Milner, J., Naseraldin, H., Production and Operations Management, 2010, Forthcoming "Strategies for a Single Product Multi-Class M/G/1 Make-to-Stock Queue" Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi, Barıs Balcıoglu, Opher Baron, Under Revision, 2010 "Staffing to Maximize Profit for Call Centers with" Opher Baron and Joseph Milner, Operations Research, 57, 2009, 685-700 "Bargaining in Competing Supply Chains with Uncertainty" Desheng Wu, Baron Opher, Berman Oded, European Journal of Operations Research, 197, 2, 2009, 548-556 "Ensuring Feasibility in Location Problems with Stochastic Demands and Congestion" Opher Baron, Oded Berman, Seokjin Kim, Dmitry Krass, IIE Transactions, 1545-8830, Volume 41, 5, 2009, 467 – 481 "On The Law of the ith Waiting in a Busy Period of G/M/s Queues" Opher Baron, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 2008/1, 2008, 75-80 "Facility Location with Stochastic Demand and Constraints on Waiting" Opher Baron, Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 3, 2008, Vol. 10 "Regulated Random Walks and the LCFS Backlog Probability: Analysis and Application" Opher Baron, Operations Research, 56/2, 2008, 471-486 "Bargaining in the Supply Chain and Its Implication to Coordination of Supply Chains in an Industry" Baron Opher, Berman Oded, Desheng Wu, Under Revision, 2008 "The Equitable Location Problem on the Plane" Opher Baron, Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass, Qian Wang, European Journal of Operations Research, 183/2, 2007, 578-590 "Pricing of Shared Computer Services" Opher Baron, Dirk Beyer, and Gabriel R. Bitran, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, Vol. 4, #1, 2005, 54-65 Recent Presentations "Tables for: Facility Location with Stochastic Demand and Constraints on Waiting" "Tables for: Facility Location with Stochastic Demand and Constraints on Waiting"Opher Baron, Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass,, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 3, Vol. 10, 2008

Professional Affiliations/Memberships INFORMS

Academic/Professional Service 2010 Masters Programs Committee, University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

Honors/Awards 2007 Roger Martin and Nancy Lang Award for Excellence in Research , University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management

Research and Teaching Interests Applied probability, Queueing, Pricing, Inventory management, Facility location, Stochastic process, and Call centers.

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