Nationality American | Name Maqbool Dada | |
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Institution Johns Hopkins University
Purdue University
Northwestern University Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (BS, 1978)
MIT Sloan School of Management (PhD, 1984) Education MIT Sloan School of Management, University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fields Operations management, Health Care, Marketing | ||
Maqbool Dada is a professor at Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, with expertise in the areas of operations management, healthcare, and marketing. He is also a core faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality.
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Career
Maqbool Dada earned his BS in industrial engineering and operations research from University of California, Berkeley in 1978, and PhD in operations management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1984. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University in 2009, Dada served as Professor of Management at Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He was also on the faculty of Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and University of Illinois at Chicago.
Academic work
Dada is known for his work in supply chain management, pricing, inventory theory, and healthcare. He serves or has served on the editorial board of major operations management journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, IIE Transactions, and Productions and Operations Management.
His research paper entitled "Pricing and the Newsvendor Problem" and published in 1999, is the No.1 most read article and the No. 7 most cited in the Operations Research journal, and has been cited more than 1300 times as of June 2015.
Another paper co-authored by Dada, entitled "A newsvendor’s Procurement Problem when Suppliers Are Unreliable" and published in 2007, is the No. 3 most cited article in the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management journal.
Operations strategy
Dada's research covers various aspects of operations strategy, in particular, pricing, postponement, and learning. His papers "Pricing and the Newsvendor Problem: A Review with Extensions" and "Price Versus Production Postponement: Capacity and Competition" are among the most cited papers on operations strategy. In 2010, his 2007 paper "A Newsvendor's Procurement Problem When Suppliers are Unreliable," published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, was selected as a finalist for the M&SOM Best Paper Award.
Healthcare
Dada's research in health care initially focuses on reimbursement policy, for example, on Medicare prospective payment system, and later involves applications of Operations Management to healthcare delivery.
Marketing-operations interfaces
Dada is among the pioneering researchers in the field of marketing-operations interfaces. In this area, his research covers various topics including durable goods, demand substitution, distribution and pricing, and consumers' waiting experience.