Amr Farahat

Senior Lecturer in Operations Research and Statistics at MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

at Olin Business School

Schools

  • Olin Business School
  • MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Olin Business School

Area of Expertise:

Decision Analysis, Management Science, Math Programming, Operations & Manufacturing Management, Revenue Management, Supply Chain Management

Research Interests:

Pricing and revenue management, supply chain management and competition, game theory, and optimization applications

Awards/Honors:

  • First Place, Case and Teaching Materials Competition, INFORMS, 2009
  • Core Faculty Teaching Award, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University, 2008
  • UPS Fellowship, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT, 2003
  • Chevening Scholarship, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1995

Amr Farahat develops mathematical models to study the interaction of pricing and inventory decisions in supply chains. His focus is on differentiated product models that capture product substitution patterns due to pricing and stockouts. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT and has taught at Cornell University before joining the Olin Business School. His industry experience includes projects with Unilever, British Telecom, McKinsey, and Priceline.com.

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