Research

SELECTED ARTICLES

Product Variety and Product Evolution

"Does Component Sharing Help or Hurt Reliability? An Empirical Study in the Automotive Industry", with Taylor Randall, March 2007, forthcoming in Management Science.

"Who do I Listen to? The Role of the Customer in Product Evolution", with Michael Meyer and Taylor Randall, January 2007, forthcoming in Handbook of New Product Development Research, C. H. Loch, and S. Kavadias (editors).

“Up or Out: New Product Positioning in an Evolving Technology Environment”, with Sanjay Jain, Production and Operations Management, Volume 14, No. 3, pp. 362-, Fall 2005.

“Managing Variety for Assembled Products: Modeling Component Systems Sharing”, with Marshall L. Fisher and Karl T. Ulrich, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Volume 5, No. 2, pp. 142-156, Spring 2003.

“Managing Product Variety: An Integrative Review and Research Directions”, Production and Operations Management, Volume 12, No. 1, pp. 79-101, Spring 2003.

“A Cross-Functional Approach to Designing Multiple Product Line Extensions with Components Sharing”, with Mohan Sawhney, Management Science, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 22-36, January 2001.

“Components Sharing in the Management of Product Variety: A Study of Automotive Braking Systems”, with Marshall L. Fisher and Karl T. Ulrich, Management Science, Vol. 45, No. 5, March 1999.

Other Interests

“Ending Inventory Valuation in Multi-Period Production Scheduling”, with Marshall L. Fisher, and Yu Sheng Zheng, Management Science, Vol. 47, No. 5, May 2001.

“The Role of Suppliers in Product Development: An Exploratory Analysis”, with Timothy Laseter, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 107-118, May 2002.

“Chain or Shackles: Understanding What Drives Supply Chain Performance", with Robert Spekman, Interfaces, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 3-21, July-August 2000.