Amr Farahat

Amr Farahat is a Senior Lecturer in Operations Research and Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His main research interests are data-driven mathematical models supporting operations and revenue management. He teaches various business analytics courses at MIT Sloan.

Prior to MIT, Amr was Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and at Cornell University. He also worked at Unilever Research as scientist in manufacturing and supply chain.

Amr holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT.

Areas of Interest

• Data-driven applied Analytics
• Revenue and supply chain management theory and methods
• Cross-cutting research at the interface of Operations, Marketing, and Micro-Economics

Education

• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999 — 2004)
• M.Sc. Lancaster University (1995 — 1996)
• B.Sc. The American University in Cairo (1989 — 1994)

Publications

• "On the Relationship Between Quantity Precommitment and Cournot Games."
  Farahat, Amr, Woonghee Tim Huh, and Hongmin Li. Operations Research Vol. 1, No. 67 (2019): 109-122.

• "The Multi-Product Newsvendor with Customer Choice."
  Farahat, Amr, and Joonkyum Lee. Operations Research Vol. 66, No. 1 (2018): 123-136.

• "On the Efficiency of Price Competition."
  Farahat, Amr, and Georgia Perakis. Operations Research Letters Vol. 39, No. 6 (2011): 414 - 418.

• "A Comparison of Bertrand and Cournot Profits in Oligopolies with Differentiated Products."
  Farahat, Amr, and Georgia Perakis. Operations Research Vol. 59, No. 2 (2011): 507-513.

• "A Nonnegative Extension of the Affine Demand Function and Equilibrium Analysis for Multiproduct Price Competition."
  Farahat, Amr, and Georgia Perakis. Operations Research Letters Vol. 38, No. 4 (2010): 280-286.

• "Airline Fleet Assignment with Enhanced Revenue Modeling."
  Barnhart, Cynthia, Amr Farahat, and Manoj Lohatepanont. Operations Research Vol. 57, No. 1 (2009): 231-244.

• "Profit Loss in Differentiated Oligopolies."
  Farahat, Amr, and Georgia Perakis. Operations Research Letters Vol. 37, No. 1 (2009): 43-46.