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Marcelo Olivares Acuña
Assistant Professor
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Operations Management; Supply Chain Management; Service Operations; Applied Econometrics
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Managerial Science and Applied Economics, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Estados Unidos, 2007
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Statistics, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Chile, 2006
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Industrial Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2000
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Associate Professor Full Time
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York, Estados Unidos
2007 - 2012
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Visiting Professor Other
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Palo Alto, Chile
2017 - At present
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Profesor Asistente Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
2011 - At present
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PROFESOR ASOCIADO Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS Y MATEMATICAS
SANTIAGO, Chile
2012 - At present
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Adjunct Associate Professor Part Time
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York, Estados Unidos
2021 - 2022
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Visiting Professor Other
Stanford University
Palo Alto, Chile
2017 - At present
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Adjunt Professor Part Time
Columbia Business School
New York, Chile
2014 - 2015
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Instructor Full Time
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
2000 - 2002
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Director Grupo de Estudio, Economia y Administracion Other
Conicyt
Santiago, Chile
2015 - At present
Main Advisor of Doctoral Students:
PhD in Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School
Yina Lu (2012)
Sang Won Kim (2012)
Doctorado en Sistemas de Ingenieria, U de Chile
Daniel Yung (2019)
Pablo Jofre (expected 2022)
Eduardo Lara (expected 2022)
Main advisor of Master students:
Magister en Gestion de Operaciones, U de Chile
Rodrigo Guerra (2019)
Joaquin Poblete (2022)
Simon Maturana (2021)
Rodrigo Arriagada D. (2018)
Pablo Jofré O. (2017)
Eyal Levy G. (2017)
Fernando Galdames P. (2015)
Main advisor, Industrial Engineering, U de Chile:
Javier Ferraz S. (2017)
Armin López B. (2015)
Nicolás Garcias C. (2014)
Loreto Elgueta E. (2013)
Competitive grants
Principal Investigator, Fondef Project ID19I10303 (2019-2021), “Desarrollo de un sistema
integrado de gestión de trasplantes basado en aprendizaje automático y diseño de mercado.”
Principal Investigator, Proyecto Evaluacion Impacto DIPRES (2019-2021), “Diseño y evaluacion de nudges para incentivar ahorro en las compras publicas.”
Principal Investigator, Fondecyt Project #1181201 (2019-2021), “Managing Capacity Utilization
in Service Platforms”.
Principal Investigator, Fondef Proyect # ID16I10122, “Platform design for the implementation of competitive framework agreements in public procurement”. (2016-2021)
Co-investigator, Fondecyt Project #1161333, “Econometric Models for Dynamic Labor Allocation Systems”. (2016-2019)
Principal Investigator, Fondef Project # IT13I20031, “Desarrollo de una herramienta para la evaluación económica de niveles de servicio al cliente en retail”. (2014-2016)
Principal Investigator, Columbia-Chile grant, "Public Procurement Mechanisms: From Practice to Research (and Back Again)", (2014)
Principal Investigator, Fondecyt, Project #1120898 “Measuring the Value of Customer Service in Retailing” (awarded by Conicyt, Chile, equivalent to NSF)
Co-principal Investigator, Fondef Project # IT17I0066 (2018-2020), “Desarrollo de una Plataforma Software-as-a-Service para Apoyar Decisiones de Dotación de Personal en Cadenas de Retail”.
CIBER/Chazen Research Grant (2010). "Measuring the performance of combinatorial auctions in school meal procurement"
Columbia Business School, Social Enterprise Center (2008-2009) "Designing procurement mechanisms for meal procurement for public schools in Chile"
The Wharton School, Baker Retailing Initiative (2006). "Estimation of the effect of out-of-stocks in supermarkets"
Public sector collaborations:
Poder Judicial de Chile. Labor allocation system for judges and supporting staff in Chilean courts. 2015-2017.
Fiscalia Nacional Economica. Advisor in economic analysis of antitrust cases,
Estimation of Damages for the “Toilet paper” collusion case in Chile (2016)
Estimation of overprices caused by a bidding ring of injectable Pharma products in Healthcare Public Procurement in Chile (2016-2018)
Servicio Nacional del Consumidor (Chile’s Bureau of Consumer Protection). Economic Report for the Estimation of Damages for the “Poultry” collusion case in Chile (2017).
Private sector:
Walmart Chile. Development of stock-out detection system based on transaction data. (2013-2014).
Banco Bci. Demand estimation and price optimization of consumer loans. (2017-2018)
Clinica Santa Maria. Analysis of surgery data to improve resource efficiency and identify best practices (2017-2018)
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Best Service Management SIG Award
Institute of Operations Research and Management Science
Estados Unidos, 2015
Award for the best paper in the area of Service Management in published during 2013-2015,
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Finalist, Best Management Science Paper
Institute of Operations Research and Management Science
Chile, 2016
Award for the best paper in Operations Management published in the journal Management Science during 2013-2015. Paper was selected as one of the three finalists.
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Associate Editor for Management Science
INFORMS
Estados Unidos, 2015
Associate Editor of one of the flagship journals in the discipline of Management Science and Operations Research
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Best professor
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Chile, 2016
Best professor awarded by the president of the University of Chile.
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Best Professor Award, Ingenieria Industrial
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Chile, 2013
Award to the best full-time professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile. Prize awarded in 2013, 2014 and 2018.
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Management Science Meritorious Service Award
INFORMS
Estados Unidos, 2010
Prize awarded to the best reviewers of the journal Management Science, one of the most prestigious in the field of Operations Research and Management Science
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Management Science Distinguished Service Award
INFORMS
Estados Unidos, 2010
Prize awarded to outstanding reviewer work for the Management Science journal, one of the most important in the area of Operations Research and Management Science.
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M&SOM Meritorious Service Award
INFORMS
Estados Unidos, 2009
Prize awarded for excellent work as a reviewer for the M&SOM, one of the most distinguished in the field of Operations Management
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1st prize, Doctoral Student Paper Competition
Production and Operations Management Society
Estados Unidos, 2007
Prize awarded to the best doctoral thesis in the field of Supply Chain Management
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OPIM Outstanding Scholar Award
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Estados Unidos, 2005
Awarded to the most distinguished doctoral student of the Operations and Information Management Department at The Wharton School, U of Pennsylvania
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Beca Presidente de la Republica
mideplan
Chile, 2002
Distinguished fellowship to pursue doctoral studies in top universities.
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Best undergraduate thesis
Instituto Chileno de Investigación de Operaciones
Chile, 2001
Premio a la mejor memoria de Pregrado en Chile en la disciplina de gestión de operaciones
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Second place in undergraduate thesis competition
Sociedad Argentina de Investigación de Operaciones
Argentina, 2001
2nd best undergraduate thesis in operations research.
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Best Management Science paper award
INFORMS
Estados Unidos, 2018
Award for the best paper in the field of operations management published in Management Science in the last 3 years.
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Franz Edelman Prize
INFORMS
Estados Unidos, 2022
This is the most prestigious award of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science to applied research with impact in organizations. The 2022 prize was awarded to the Government of Chile for the development of analytical tools to handle the Covid-19 pandemic. Prof. Olivares was one of the 5 researchers leading the project.
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Marcelo Olivares
Assistant Professor
Departamento de Ingenieria Industrial
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
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Andres Musalem
Profesor Asociado
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS FISICAS Y MATEMATICAS, ING. INDUSTRIAL
Santiago, Chile
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Marcel Goic
Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile