Hyun-Soo Ahn

Ford Motor Company Co-Director of the Joel D. Tauber Institute for Global Operations
Professor of Technology and Operations

Education

PhD University of Michigan 2001
MSE University of Michigan 1997
BSE Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 1994

Contact Information

Phone

(734) 764-6862

Fax

(734) 764-2555

Room

R4428

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Research

Research

Hyun-soo Ahn is a Professor of Operations and Management Science at the Michigan Business School. He joined Michigan in 2003 from the department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley. In his research, Hyun-soo develops and analyzes mathematical models related to supply chain management, dynamic pricing and revenue management, workforce agility, and resource allocation. He is also interested in modeling the customer's behavior (such as subscription) and how it affects the firm's profit. He has worked with more than 20 companies and his research has been funded by several organizations including National Science Foundation. His papers appear in leading journals in the field, including Operations Research, M&SOM, and Journal of Applied Probability.

At Ross, he teaches supply chain analytics and business statistics to MBAs, Exec. MBAs, MSCM, and BBAs. He has won a number of teaching awards voted by students, including 2012 Exec MBA teaching excellence award, 2012 Global MBA teaching excellence award, and 2006 BBA teaching excellence award.

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Breaking the Smurfette Rule in Korea

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Hyun-soo Ahn

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01/2020

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Maeil Business Newspaper

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2020-1-14

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Covid-19 and the Bullwhip Effect

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Hyun-soo Ahn

Published Date

02/2020

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Maeil Business News

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2020-2-25

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Global Business After Covid-19

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Hyun-soo Ahn

Published Date

04/2020

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Maeil Business News

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2020-4-12

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On Contactless Class

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Hyun-soo Ahn

Published Date

05/2020

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Maeil Business News (The most prominent newspaper on Business and Economics in South Korea)

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2020-5-15

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(Rescaled) Multi‐Attempt Approximation of Choice Model and Its Application to Assortment Optimization

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Hakjin Chung, Hyun-soo Ahn, Stef Jasin

Published Date

2019

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Production and Operations Management

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341-353

Action and Counter-Action of FANG

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Hyun-soo Ahn

Published Date

06/2019

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Maeil Business Newspaper

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2019-6-18

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Coordinating Pricing and Inventory Replenishment with Nonparametric Demand Learning

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Chen, B., Chao, X. Ahn, H

Published Date

2019

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Operations Research

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905-1208

Managing Value-Chain Risks

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Hyun-soo Ahn

Published Date

09/2019

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Maeil Business Newspaper

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2019-09-10

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The Resurgence of Microsoft

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Hyun-soo Ahn

Published Date

07/2019

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Maeil Business Newspaper

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2019-7-30

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The Survival of The Fittest in Luxury

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Hyun-soo Ahn

Published Date

12/2019

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Maeil Business Newspaper

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2019-12-03

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To share or not to share? Capacity reservation in a shared supplier

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Anyan Qi, Hyun-soo Ahn, Amitabh Sinha

Published Date

11/2019

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Production and Operations Management

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1455-1475

Using AI in Hiring and Promotion

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Hyun-soo Ahn

Published Date

10/2019

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Maeil Business News

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2019-10-22

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Conditional Promotions and Consumer Overspending

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Hyun-Soo Ahn (with Ozge Sahin, Bam Amornpetchkul)

Published Date

08/2018

Source

Production and Operations Management

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1455-1475

Analysis of Deterministic Control and Its Improvements for an Inventory Problem with Multi-Product Batch Differentiation

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Ahn, H, Jasin, W., Kaminsky, P, Wang, Y.

Published Date

2017

Source

Operations Research

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58-76

Capacity Investment with Demand Learning

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Hyun-Soo Ahn (Anyan Qi and Amitabh Sinha)

Published Date

2017

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Operations Research

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145-164

When is Anarchy Beneficial?

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Tyler Moxey, Hyun-soo Ahn, Hakjin Chung, Rhonda Righter

Published Date

2017

Source

Performance Evaluation Review (Computer Science Journal)

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18-20

Algorithms for the two-stage production-capacitated lot-sizing problem

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Hwang, H., Ahn. H, Kaminsky, P.

Published Date

2016

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Journal of Global Optimization

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777-799

Investing in a shared supplier in a competitive market: Stochastic capacity case.

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Hyun-Soo Ahn (Amitabh Sinha, Anyan Qi)

Published Date

2015

Source

Production and Operations Management

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1537-1551

Rationing Capacity in Advance to Signal Quality

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Hyun-Soo Ahn (with Man Yu, Roman Kapuscinski)

Published Date

2015

Source

Management Science

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560-577

Rationing Capacity in Advance to Signal Quality

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Hyun-Soo Ahn (with Man Yu, Roman Kapuscinski)

Published Date

2015

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Management Science

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560-577

Choosing which provider sees the next patient in the preanesthesia evaluation clinic based on the relative speeds of the providers

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Hyun-Soo Ahn (with Franklin Dexter, MD and Richard H. Epstein, MD)

Published Date

2013

Source

Anesthesia & Analgesia (Medical Journal)

Volume:

116

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Pages:

919-923

Dynamic pricing of limited inventories when customers negotiate

Authors

Chia-Wei Kuo, Hyun-soo Ahn, Goker Aydin

Published Date

07/2011

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Operations Research

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882

Joint Management of Capacity and Inventory in Make-to-Stock Production Systems

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Hyun-soo Ahn, Maria Mayorga

Published Date

07/2011

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European Journal of Operational Research

Volume:

212

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Pages:

312-324

Managing Queues with Heterogeneous Servers

Authors

Jung-Hyun Kim, Hyun-soo Ahn, Rhonda Righter

Published Date

2011

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Journal of Applied Probability

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435-452

Inventory policies for a make-to-order system with a perishable component and fixed ordering cost

Authors

Katia Frank, Hyun-soo Ahn, Rachel Zhang

Published Date

2009

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Naval Research Logistics

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127-141

Inventory, discounts, and the timing effects

Authors

Hyun-soo Ahn , Mehmet Gumus, and Philip Kaminsky

Published Date

2009

Source

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

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Issue:

Pages:

613-629

Optimal production policies with multistage stochastic demand lead times

Authors

Jung-hyun Kim, Hyun-soo Ahn, Rhonda Righter

Published Date

2009

Source

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

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515-543

Understanding and Managing Variability

Authors

Hyun-Soo Ahn

Published Date

2010

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Wiley

Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science

James J. Cochran

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To share or not to share? Capacity reservation in a shared supplier

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Analysis of Deterministic Control and Its Improvements for an Inventory Problem with Multi-Product Batch Differentiation

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Capacity Investment with Demand Learning

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When is Anarchy Beneficial?

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Investing in a shared supplier in a competitive market: Stochastic capacity case.

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Rationing Capacity in Advance to Signal Quality

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Choosing which provider sees the next patient in the preanesthesia evaluation clinic based on the relative speeds of the providers

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Dynamic pricing of limited inventories when customers negotiate

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Joint Management of Capacity and Inventory in Make-to-Stock Production Systems

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Managing Queues with Heterogeneous Servers

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Inventory policies for a make-to-order system with a perishable component and fixed ordering cost

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Inventory, discounts, and the timing effects

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Optimal production policies with multistage stochastic demand lead times

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Understanding and Managing Variability

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