Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca

Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca is an Assistant Professor of Production, Technology and Operations Management. She received her PhD in 2019 from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and spent a year working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Before starting her doctoral studies, Anna was a research assistant at IESE and a junior R&D engineer at Sabirmedical. During her PhD, she interned at Amazon in the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies team. Anna holds a BSc in Mathematics and a MSc in Mathematical Engineering from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Anna’s research interests include social responsibility, sustainability, supply chain management, behavioral operations management, and empirical and experimental operations management. Recently she has been working on visibility and transparency in apparel supply chains, on behavioral biases of managers, on sustainable business models in fashion, on diffusion of diversity initiatives along supply chains, and on consumer attitudes and behavior with regards to environmental issues like recycling, renewable energies, or ecolabeled products. Her papers have been accepted in leading journals such as Management Science. Anna won the POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Award in 2018 and the POMS College of Behavior in Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competition in 2019.

Areas of interest

• Social responsibility
• Sustainability
• Supply chain management
• Behavioral operations management
• Empirical and experimental operations management

Education

PhD in Operations Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management, 2019. Advisor: Felipe Caro.

MSc in Mathematical Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2012.

BSc in Mathematics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2011.

Additional research experience Research scientist intern, Amazon, Seattle, summer 2016.

Research assistant, IESE Business School, Barcelona, 2012–2014.

Junior R&D engineer, Sabirmedical, Barcelona, 2010–2012.

Companies

• Assistant Professor IESE Business School (2020)
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow Georgetown University McDonough School of Business (2019 — 2020)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant UCLA Anderson School of Management (2015 — 2019)
• Research scientist intern Amazon (2016 — 2016)
• Research assistant IESE Business School (2012 — 2014)
• Junior R&D engineer Sabirmedical (2010 — 2012)

Publications

Published and forthcoming papers

Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca. “Can Brands Claim Ignorance? Unauthorized Subcontracting in Apparel Supply Chains.” Management Science 67, no. 4 (2021): 2010-2028.

Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca. “Four Myths about Unauthorized Subcontracting.” MIT Sloan Management Review 63, no. 1 (2021): 41-45.

Papers under review

Felipe Caro, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca. “Believing in Analytics: Managers’ Adherence to Price Recommendations from a DSS.” Second-round revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

Work in progress

Vishal Agrawal, Ekaterina Astashkina, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca. “The Impact of Variety on the Environmental and Economic Performance of a Clothing Rental Business Model.”

Erin McKie, Vishal Agrawal, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca. “Take-back Initiatives for Clothing: Understanding Consumers’ Motivations and Program Costs.”

Vishal Agrawal, Neeru Paharia, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca.“What to Offer, and to Whom? Perceived Value of Sustainable and Conventional Products.”

Vishal Agrawal, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Sezer Ülkü, Şafak Yücel.“The Behavioral Drivers of Renewable Energy Adoption”

Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca. “Crossovers Between Sustainability Dimensions of Fashion Products: from Consumers’ Perceptions to Reality.”

Out-of-field papers (pre-PhD) Timothy G. Myers, Vicent Ribas Ripoll, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Sarah L. Mitchell, and Mark J. McGuinness. “Modelling the Cardiovascular System for Assessing the Blood Pressure Curve.” Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies 8, no. 1 (2017): 2.

Vicent J. Ribas Ripoll, Anna Wojdel, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Juan C. Ruiz-Rodríguez, Adolf Ruiz-Sanmartín, Miriam de Nadal, Enrique Romero, and Alfredo Vellido. “Continuous Blood Pressure Assessment from a Photoplethysmographic Signal with Deep Belief Networks.” The FASEB Journal 28, no. 1 Supplement (2014): LB674.

Vicent J. Ribas, Jesús Caballero López, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Juan Carlos Ruiz-Rodríguez, Adolfo RuizSanmartín, Jordi Rello, and Alfredo Vellido. “On the Use of Graphical Models to Study ICU Outcome Prediction in Septic Patients Treated with Statins.” In International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, pp. 98-111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011).

Awards

Awards

Winner, POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Award, 2018.

Winner, POMS College of Behavior in Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competition, 2019.

Finalist, LERA Competitive Papers, 2020 (withdrawn).

Research funding

UCLA Anderson Doctoral Fellowship, 2014 to 2018.

UCLA Easton Center Summer Doctoral Fellows Program, 2015 and 2017.

Juan de la Cierva-Formación Grant. Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020. Supervisor: Victor Martínez-de-Albéniz. Reference: SFJC1900I042215XV0. Amount: 50,000€.

Proyectos I+D+i 2020. Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020. PIs: Victor Martínez-de-Albéniz and Mihalis Markakis. Reference: PID2020-116135GB-I00. Amount: 74,197.20€.

Social Trends Institute Grants. PI: Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca