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Amr Farahat

Amr Farahat

Associate Teaching Professor of Business Analytics

  • TEP - Tepper Building - Room 4124
  • 412-268-1117
Address
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Ph D - 2004
  • Lancaster University - M Sc - 1996
  • The American University in Cairo - Graduate Diploma - 1995
  • The American University in Cairo - B Sc (Summa Cum Laude) - 1994

Publications

  • On the Relationship Between Quantity Pre-Commitment and Cournot Games
    (author(s): Amr Farahat, T. Huh, H. Li)
    Operations Research 67(1), 2019; 109-122
  • The Multi-Product Newsvendor with Customer Choice
    (author(s): Amr Farahat, J. K. Lee)
    Operations Research 66(1), 2018; 123-136
  • On the Efficiency of Price Competition
    (author(s): Amr Farahat, G. Perakis)
    Operations Research Letters 39(6), 2011; 414-418
  • A Comparison of Bertrand and Cournot Profits in Oligopolies with Differentiated Products
    (author(s): Amr Farahat, G. Perakis)
    Operations Research 59(2), 2011; 507-513
  • A Nonnegative Extension of the Affine Demand Function and Equilibrium Analysis for Multiproduct Price Competition
    (author(s): Amr Farahat, G. Perakis)
    Operations Research Letters 38(4), 2010; 280-286
  • Profit Loss in Differentiated Oligopolies
    (author(s): Amr Farahat, G. Perakis)
    Operations Research Letters 37(1), 2009; 43-46
  • Airline Fleet Assignment with Enhanced Revenue Modeling: An Alternative Formulation and Solution Approach
    (author(s): Amr Farahat, C. Barnhart, M. Lohatepanont)
    Operations Research 57(1), 2009; 231-244

Awards and Honors

  • INFORMS Case and Teaching Materials Competition for the case “RegionEx Flight Delays” co- authored with Susan Martonosi - First Place (2009)

  • Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell - Core Faculty Teaching Award “Honoring Teaching Excellence for the professor who best fosters learning through lecture, discussion, and coursework” (2008 - 2009)

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology - UPS Fellowship, Center for Transportation and Logistics (2003 – 2004)

  • United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Chevening Scholarship (1995 – 1996)

  • The American University in Cairo, School of Engineering - Graduate Merit Fellowship (1994 – 1995)

  • The American University in Cairo, School of Engineering  - Academic Honor Awards ( 1992, 1993, 1994)

Professional Activities

  • Chair, INFORMS Case Competition Committee (2020)
  • Member, INFORMS Case Competition Committee (2019 - 2021)
  • Member, INFORMS OR & Analytics Student Team Project Judging Committee (2018)
  • Member, INFORMS Committee on Academic Programs Database (2014 - 2015)
  • Co-organizer, 10th Annual INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference, Cornell (June 16-18, 2010)
  • Reviewer: Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management; Management Science; Manufacturing and Service Operations Management; Operations Research; Naval Research Logistics; Production and Operations Management; Transactions on Economics and Computation; Transportation Science
  • Referee: POMS Supply Chain Student Paper Competition; Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award