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Publications

  • "Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-platforms: Evidence from the Field."

    Levi, Retsef, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng (Under second revision in Management Science), Working Paper. September 2022.
  • "Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households."

    Levi, Retsef, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis (Submitted to Management Science, revision requested), Working Paper. July 2022.
  • "Robustly Minimizing a Piecewise-linear Cost Function with Respect to Uncertainty in Mixed Demand."

    Chen, Daniel, Retsef Levi, and Georgia Perakis (Submitted to Production and Operations Management), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5762-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2021.
  • "Competitive Algorithms for the Online Minimum Peak Appointment Scheduling."

    Escribe, Célia, Michael Hu, and Retsef Levi (Submitted to Operations Research), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6258-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, February 2021.
  • "How Primary Care Teams and Patients E-Communicate: Identifying Work Themes via Advanced Text Analytics."

    Escribe, Célia, Stephanie Eisenstat, Walter O’Donnell, and Retsef Levi (Submitted to JAMA Internal Medicine), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6419-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2021.
  • "Lot Variability Analysis of Adverse Events in Biologics: Methods and Case Studies."

    Levi, Retsef, Stacy Springs, Joshua Wilde, and Jacqueline Wolfrum, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6250-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, January 2021.
  • "Supply Chain Characteristics as Predictors of Cyber Risk: A Machine-Learning Assessment."

    Hu, Kevin, El Ghali Zerhouni, Retsef Levi, and Raphael (Rafi) Yahalom, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6251-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2021.
  • "Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value."

    Levi, Retsef, Elizabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis. (Submitted to Production and Operations Management), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5389-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2020.
  • "Reverse Information Sharing: Reducing Costs in Supply Chains with Yield Uncertainty."

    Harsha, Pavithra, Ashish Jagmohan, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis. (Resubmitted to Management Science), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6172-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2020.
  • "Supply Chain Network Analytics Guiding Food Regulatory Operational Policy."

    Levi, Retsef, Nicholas Renegar, Stacy Springs, and Tauhid Zaman. (Submitted and under second revision, Operations Research), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5758-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2020.
  • "The Link Between Food Safety and Zoonotic Disease Risks at Wholesale and Wet Markets in China."

    Gao, Qihua, Retsef Levi, and Nicholas Renegar (Submitted to Nature Food), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6372-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, October 2020.
  • "Base Stock Policies for Lost-Sales Models, State Space Aggregation and Limiting Transition Probabilities."

    Arts, Joachim, Retsef Levi, and Geert-Jan van Houtum (Submitted to Naval Research Logistics), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5911-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2020.
  • "Designing Sparse Minimum Knapsack Policies: an Application to Supply Chain Procurement."

    Levi, Retsef, Georgia Perakis, and Gonzalo Romero. (Rejected and resubmitted to Operations Research), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6151-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2020.
  • "Risk-Based Testing of Aquatic Products by Individual Species in China: A Field Study."

    Bai, Bing, Lu Chen, Retsef Levi, Xiaobei Li, Nicholas Renegar, Wenshuai Si, Stacy Springs, and Changyan Zhou (Submitted to Environmental Health Perspectives), MIT Sloan Working Paper 6249-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2020.
  • "Systemic Supply Chain Analysis of Toxic Pet Jerky Treats: A Novel Approach to Identify Potential Risk and Causative Contaminants."

    Chen, Lu, Shannon Stewart, David Byun, Nicholas Renegar, Retsef Levi, Stacy Springs, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6248-20. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2020.
  • "An Adaptive SPT Rule for Scheduling and Testing Heterogeneous Jobs."

    Levi, Retsef, Thomas L. Magnanti, and Yaron Shaposhnik (Submitted to Production and Operations Management), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5586-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2019.
  • "Measuring Work After Work Using Electronic Health Records."

    Eisenstat, Stephanie A., Michael Hu, Retsef Levi, Walter J. O’Donnell, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5517-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2018.
  • "Optimizing Purchasing and Handling Costs for Supply Chain Procurement."

    Genser, Bradley, Retsef Levi, Georgia Perakis, and Gonzalo Romero, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5518-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2018.
  • "Stochastic Selection Problems with Testing."

    Attias, Chen, Robert Krauthgamer, Retsef Levi, and Yaron Shaposhnik. (Submitted to Management Science, revision requested), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5312-17. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2018.
  • "Submodular Batch Scheduling for Warehouse Picking."

    Chen, Daniel, Retsef Levi, and Georgia Perakis (Submitted to Mathematical Programming), Working Paper. 2018.
  • "A Data-Driven Approach to Managing Risk in Global Food Supply Chains."

    Anoun, Amine, Retsef Levi, and Tauhid Zaman, Working Paper. December 2017.
  • "A Network Based Risk Measure for Global Food Supply Chains."

    Anoun, Amine, Retsef Levi, and Tauhid Zaman, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5319-17. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2017.
  • "Impacts of Shift Patterns on Patients' Length of Stay."

    Berube, Rhodes, Peter Dunn, Kimia Ghobadi, Andrew Johnston, Retsef Levi, and Walter O'Donnell, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5320-17. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2017.
  • "Surgical-Supply Inventory Policies."

    Zvi, Noa Ben, Bethany Daily, Peter Dunn, Retsef Levi, Matthew Schlanser, and Cecilia Zenteno. Work in Progress. (Part of the theses of Matthew Schlanser and Noa Ben Zvi), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5334-17. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2017.
  • "The Box Property of Capacitated Stochastic Resource Allocation Problems."

    Huh, Tim, Ganesh Janakiraman, Retsef Levi, Mahesh Nagarajan, and Robin Roundy. Work in Progress, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5335-17. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2017.
  • "Real-Time Outpatient Scheduling with Patient Choice."

    Ghobadi, Kimia, Inga Lennes, Retsef Levi, Adam Marshall, Wendi Reib, and Cecilia Zenteno. (Submitted to MSOM – revision requested), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5314-16. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2016.
  • "Data-Driven Optimization to Understand Healthcare Network Costs and Resource Allocation."

    Braun, Marcus, Fernanda Bravo, Vivek Farias, and Retsef Levi, Working Paper. December 2014.
  • "Systematic Risk Management of the China-Based Manufactured Jerky Treats."

    Domike, Reuben, Retsef Levi, Stacy Springs, Shannon Stewart, Tauhid Zaman, and Karen Zheng. Work in Progress, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5332-14. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2014.
  • "The Association Between Transfer Delays in ICU and Increased Hospital Length of Stay."

    Christensen, Benjamin, Sara Dolcetti, Peter Dunn, Retsef Levi, David Scheinker and Uli Schmidth, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5322-14. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2014.
  • "A Service-Based Discrete Event Simulation Model for Capacity Planning and Design of Patient Flow Policies in Intensive Care Units."

    Gamarnik, David, Retsef Levi, Mike McManus, and Tom Wongsakom, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5323-13. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2013.
  • "Intra-day Surgical Scheduling & PACU Patient Flow."

    Daily, Bethany, Peter Dunn, Retsef Levi, Ashleigh Range, and Cecilia Zenteno. Work in Progress. (Part of the thesis of Ashleigh Range), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5333-13. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2013.
  • "The Efficiency of Revenue Sharing Contracts in Joint Ventures in Operations Management."

    Levi, Retsef, Georgia Perakis, Cong Shi and Wei Sun, Working Paper. December 2012.
  • "Mathematical Programming Analysis of a Graph Visiting Problem."

    Levi, Retsef, Thomas Magnanti, Danny Segev, and Eric Zarybnisky. (Submitted to Mathematical Programming – revision requested), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5315-11. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2011.
  • "Regret Optimization for Stochastic Inventory Models with Spread Information."

    Levi, Retsef, Georgia Perakis, and Joline Uichanco. Submitted to Operations Research – revision requested, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5316-11. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, December 2011.
  • "Sampling-Based Algorithms for Airline Revenue Management Problems."

    Levi, Retsef, Tim Huh, and Tiam Hai Lee, Working Paper. December 2009.
  • "New Policies for Stochastic Inventory Control Models - Theoretical and Computational Results."

    Levi, Retsef, Gavin Hurley, Peter Jackson, Robin O. Roundy, and David B. Shmoys, Working Paper. December 2006.
  • "The Limits to Learning a Diffusion Model."

    Jackie Baek, Vivek F. Farias, Andreea Georgescu, Retsef Levi, Tianyi Peng, Deeksha Sinha, Joshua Wilde, and Andrew Zheng. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Economics and Computation (EC), Budapest, Hungary: July 2021. arXiv Preprint.
  • "Health Systems Innovation: Analytics in Action."

    Copenhaver, Martin S., Michael Hu, Retsef Levi, Kyan Safavi, and Ana Cecelia Zenteno Langle. In Operations Research & Management Science in the Age of Analytics, edited by Serguei Netessine, 238-266. Seattle, WA: INFORMS, 2019.
  • "Economically Motivated Adulteration in Farming Supply Chains."

    Retsef Levi, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng. In Proceedings of MSOM Supply Chain Management 2018 SIG Meeting, Dallas, TX: July 2018.
  • "Impact of Access and Value on Fresh Food Consumption: Policy Implications."

    Retsef Levi, Georgia Perakis, and Elisabeth Paulson. In Proceedings of the 2018 MSOM Conference, Dallas, TX: July 2018.
  • "Speculative Shortages in Agricultural Supply Chains: The Effect of Government Interventions."

    Retsef Levi, Somya Singhvi and Karen Zheng. In Proceedings of the 2018 MSOM Conference, Dallas, TX: July 2018.
  • "Submodular Batch Scheduling for Warehouse Picking."

    Daniel Chen, Retsef Levi and Georgia Perakis. In Proceedings of the 2018 MSOM Conference, July 2018.
  • "Valuing and Optimizing Non-facetime Work in Determining Practice Workload."

    Stephanie Eisenstat, Michael Hu and Retsef Levi. In MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG 2018, Dallas, TX: July 2018.
  • "Case Study: The Yedioth Group."

    Retsef Levi. Cambridge, MA: 2014.
  • "Case Study 11-116: Massachusetts General Hospital's Pre-Admission Testing Area (PATA)."

    Kelsey McCarty, Jérémie Gallien, and Retsef Levi. Cambridge, MA: January 2012.
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