Working Papers

• Santiago Kraiselburd, and Noel Watson. "Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-058, 2007.In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful departmental integration in supply/demand planning.

• Kyle Hyndman, Santiago Kraiselburd, and Noel Watson. “Coordination in Supply Chains when Demand Forecasts are not Common Knowledge: Theory and Experiment”. Working Paper. In this paper, we present a simple coordination game where an upstream and a downstream party have different demand forecasts. We run a set of experiments with live subjects to find out which strategies subjects play, whether subjects learn from each other, etc. Under revisions, MSOM.

• Alejandro Serrano, Santiago Kraiselburd, and Rogelio Oliva. “Ordering Decisions and Cost of Capital” Working paper. The paper addresses the following questions: What is the link between inventory decisions and the value of the firm? How is a firm’s level of inventory related to its risk? How can ordering decisions affect a firm’s stock price?

• Alejandro Serrano, Santiago Kraiselburd, and Rogelio Oliva. “Risk Propagation in Supply Chains” Working paper. The paper addresses the following questions: How do changes in ordering and payment decisions by companies affect bankruptcy costs across the members of a supply chain? Do we predict an amplification of financial flows variability across a supply chain, just like the bullwhip effect predicts such amplification in orders and stocks?

• Santiago Kraiselburd and Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz. “When is Vendor Managed Inventory Good for the Retailer? Impact of Relative Margins and Substitution Rates” Working Paper. In a supply chain with two manufacturers who sell competing products through one common retailer, the paper discusses when the retailer would benefit from Vendor Managed Inventory and when it would not.

• Santiago Kraiselburd and Mustafa Çagri Gürbüz. “Who Should Take Over Operations in a Supply Chain? The Effect of Retailer, Manufacturer Efforts, and Specificity.” Working paper. The paper considers a two stage supply chain and discusses the full range of possible interactions between the two parties, going from no contract to vertical integration, developing a framework to determine the best choice under different scenarios.

• Luis Herrero Riaño, Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson. “The Union of the Human and the Machine: a New Frontier in Retail Supply Chain Management”. Work in process. An extensive empirical study of the decisions made by category managers overruling an automated store ordering system. We have a total of 300,000 overruling decisions made by 60 managers during many months, and extensive data about the general environment (including the system´s original decision). Several papers in process.

Teaching Materials

• Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson ”PLAZA: The Logistics Park of Zaragoza.” Harvard Business School Case 609113-PDF-ENG. Teaching case about a company who is deciding whether to set up operations in a logistics park. The case goes through the firm´s decision process.

• Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson ”PLAZA: The Logistics Park of Zaragoza.” Harvard Business School Teaching Note number 5-609-114.

• Noel Watson and Santiago Kraiselburd. "VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture." Harvard Business School Case 609107-PDF-ENG. Teaching case about a non for profit NGO that creates a for profit company to help in its goal of improving vaccinations in northern Mozambique.

• Noel Watson and Santiago Kraiselburd. "VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture." Harvard Business Teaching Note 5-609-112.

• Alejandro Serrano and Santiago Kraiselburd. “EOQ, NPV and EVA at Roche”. Teaching case about analyzing manufacturing batch size decisions at Roche, a global pharmaceutical company.

• Alejandro Serrano and Santiago Kraiselburd. “EOQ, NPV and EVA at Roche”. Teaching Note.

Other Publications

• Santiago Kraiselburd, “Cuando Querer Más Implica Terminar Con Menos”, Harvard Deusto Márketing & Ventas, Number 75, July-August 2006. Page(s): 26-33. This article addresses general contracting issues between manufacturers and retailers for a practitioner audience.

• Santiago Kraiselburd. “ZLC, Educación, Logística e Industria,” Mundo Logístico, Year III, Number 16, July/August 2006. Page(s): 78-80.

• Santiago Kraiselburd and Micah A. North Shea. “The Evolution of Real Newsboy Contracts in the US.“ Proceedings of the POMS National Conference, May 7, 2007, Dallas, Texas. This paper attempts to respond the following questions: When and how have real newsboy contracts evolved in the US through the years? Did circumstances change in a way that impacted the types of contracts out there? Why is it that today, of all possible contracts, the wholesale price plus full returns contract prevails?

• Jesus A. Royo y Santiago Kraiselburd. “La logistica en Aragón”. Economía Aragonesa, Julio 2008, Num 36, pp. 121-138. This article is about the logistic sector in the Aragon region of Spain.

• Santiago Kraiselburd and Alejandro Serrano. “Sobre papeles, inventarios, finanzas y el futuro.” INCAE Business Review, Vol. 1, Number 8, May-August 2009. This article is about the relationship between corporate finance and supply chain management for a practitioner audience.

Academic Peer Reviewed Publications

• Santiago Kraiselburd, V.G. Narayanan, and Ananth Raman. “Contracting for Inventory in a Distribution Channel with Stochastic Demand and Substitute Products.” Production and Operations Management. Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Spring 2004. Page(s): 46-62. The paper presents a double moral hazard model that analyses inventory related agency costs in a manufacturer-retailer relationship, in the presence of stochastic demand and substitute products.

• Santiago Kraiselburd and Prashant Yadav. “Supply Chains and global health: An imperative for bringing operations management scholarship into action.” Forthcoming. Production and Operations Management. This article highlights some of the main challenges in global health that can be addressed with an Operations Management point of view.

• Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik, and Ananth Raman. “Impact of Supply Chain Contracts on Incentives for Leadtime Reduction.” Forthcoming, Production and Operations Management. The paper analyses contracting issues that interfere with leadtime reducing efforts in a single period manufacturer-retailer setup.