Addressing the management challenges of organisational projects
The Operations and Technology Management group studies the design and management of intra- and inter-organisational projects, processes and routines that result in superior performance and competitive advantage for organisations. Deep engagement with partner organisations facilitates our focus on practice-based research.
Group members address a wide spectrum of management challenges and employ a diverse set of research methods. These include theoretical, analytical, empirical, and behavioural models that draw from operations research, economics, psychology and sociology, as well as state-of-the-art data analytics techniques applied to large datasets.

Key research and teaching areas
The research interests of the group fall broadly into the following categories:
- Innovation and new product development (Stelios Kavadias, Christoph Loch, Nektarios Oraiopoulos)
- Healthcare operations (Feryal Erhun, Houyuan Jiang, Stefan Scholtes)
- Operations strategy (Jane Davies, Stelios Kavadias, Christoph Loch, Nektarios Oraiopoulos)
- Supply chain management and risk (Feryal Erhun, Danny Ralph)
- Behavioural decision-making and behaviour analytics (Christoph Loch, Kishore Sengupta, David Stillwell)
Research centres
Group members have leading roles in the following research centres:
- The Entrepreneurship Centre
- Cambridge Centre for Health Leadership & Enterprise
- Centre for Process Excellence & Innovation
- Centre for Risk Studies
- The Psychometrics Centre
Teaching
Faculty members of the Operations and Technology Management subject group teach on various masters and executive education programmes.
Members
Meet our members including faculty, research and teaching staff, PhD students, and honorary appointees.
Subject group head
Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias
Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies in Innovation and Growth
PhD (INSEAD)
Publishing output
Journals publishing
Group members actively contribute to both academic and business communities. They have published in top-tier academic journals such as:
- Management Science
- Operations Research
- Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
- Journal of Operations Management
- Production and Operations Management
- Mathematics of Operations Research
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journals editing
Group members have also published in top-tier management journals such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review and they currently serve or have served as associate editors at journals such as:
- Management Science
- Operations Research
- Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
- Journal of Operations Management
- Production and Operations Management.
Selected publications
Industry and policy engagement
Regional, national and international organisations
Members of the Operations and Technology Management group engage frequently with organisations in the business and public sectors. Their research agenda is stimulated by regular contacts with senior personnel of regional, national and international organisations such as:
- Bank of China
- British Airways
- BP
- Ernst & Young
- Ofgem
- Defra
- Shell
- UK Department for Transport
- NICE
- Cambridge University Hospitals
Recent and current engagement projects undertaken by members of the group include:
- Professor Stefan Scholtes, Professor Feryal Erhun, Dr Houyuan Jiang, together with colleague Dr Paul Kattuman and PhD students Lidia Betcheva, Tom Pape and Antoine Feylesouffi, started a research collaboration with Addenbrookes Hospital and the East of England Region to support the local NHS response to the COVID-19 emergency. Their work has served a population of seven million people in the East of England, supporting key timely decisions in terms of hospital and ICU beds, lockdown easing measures and hospital activities.
- Professor Stelios Kavadias completed his sabbatical at AstraZeneca in 2019, where he helped the R&D portfolio & project management executives in exploring ways by which AstraZeneca could increase their R&D productivity. His effort led to the creation of a standardised template with sets of questions that help project teams to check that they are not being overly risk adverse and that they are considering the implications of their decisions and phase plans on drugs’ approval time.
- Professor Danny Ralph has been supporting several businesses through the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies (CCRS) that he directs. The Centre has established itself at the forefront of research into cyber risk insurance products and cyber risk management internationally. Their work has been used widely by a number of organisations including Risk Management Solutions (RMS), Pool Re, and Lloyd’s of London.
- Dr Benn Lawson worked with a global automotive producer to understand the profitability implications of building vehicles to customer order versus building to stock. He is also working with a sustainability-focused NGO to assess the effects of worker empowerment interventions in supplier factories.
- Dr Aris Oraiopoulos has consulted with companies in the pharmaceutical industry on strategies for drug development.
- Dr Kishore Sengupta has served as advisor on several projects with the US Government Department of Defense and NASA, and has consulted with organisations in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong. He has also worked at the AT&T Network Software Center (now Lucent Technologies) and Ernst & Young.
Research seminars
Upcoming seminars
There are no upcoming research seminars. Please check back again later.
Past seminars
2024
Join our Operations and Technology Management seminar with Dr Chan Tian Heong, Emory University.
Join our Operations and Technology Management seminar with Dr Gökçe Esenduran, Daniels School of Business, Purdue University.
Join our Operations and Technology Management seminar with Professor Lusheng Shao, University of Melbourne.
Join our Operations and Technology Management seminar with Professor Mirko Kremer, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
2023
Michaelmas term
A Operations and Technology Management seminar with Professor Brian Denton, Michigan University.
Easter term
24 April 2023 | 11:30-13:30, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
Using Process Data to Detect Lies in Supply Chain E-business
Yingshuai Zhao, Assistant Professor, University of Cologne
25 May 2023 | 13:00-14:30, Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School
Algorithm, Human, or the Centaur: How to Enhance Clinical Care?
Professor Agni Orfanoudaki, Saïd Business School of Oxford University
7 June 2023 | 12:30-14:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Bayesian Demand Learning and Revenue Management under Limited Capacity
Mihalis Markakis, Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, IESE Business School
Lent term
6 March 2023 | 12:30-14:00, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
Choice, Fashion and the Environment
Aydın Alptekinoğlu, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Robert G. Schwartz University Endowed Fellow in Business Administration, Penn State’s Smeal College of Business
14 March 2023 | 12:30-14:00, Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School
Information Design of a Delegated Search
Shouqiang Wang, Associate Professor of Operations Management, Naveen Jindal School of Management, the University of Texas at Dallas
16 March 2023 | 14:30-16:00, Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
Purposeful Design for AI-augmented Healthcare: Harnessing Physician-in-the-loop Systems to Improve the Patient Journey
Professor Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
22 March 2023 | 11:45-14:00, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
Personalising Interventions in Behavioural Health
Professor Jónas Oddur Jónasson, MIT Sloan School of Management
28 March 2023 | 12:30-14:00, Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School
Stochastic Capacity Investment in the Presence of Production Resources
Onur Boyabatli, Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
30 March 2023 | 12:30-14:00, Room W4.05, Cambridge Judge Business School
The Effect of Voting Structure on New Product Evaluation Decisions: Advisory Committees at the FDA
Panos Markou, Assistant Professor, UVA Darden School of Business
2020
Lent term
9 January 2020 | 12:30-14:00, Lecture Theatre 4, Cambridge Judge Business School
GAMA: Quantum and Quantum-inspired Algorithms
Professor Sridhar Tayur, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
11 February 2020 | 12:30-14:00, Room 217 (Keynes House), Cambridge Judge Business School
Hospitalisation vs Home Care: Treating Haematology Patients under Scarce Capacity
Dr Galit Yom-Tov, Industrial Engineering and Management Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (IE&M)
2019
Michaelmas term
15 November 2019 | 12:30-14:00, Room 217 (Keynes House), Cambridge Judge Business School
How Does Multichannel Quality Information Affect Consumer Choice of Services? Social Media vs Government Report Cards
Dr Susan Feng Lu, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
29 November 2019 | 14:00-15:30, Room 217 (Keynes House), Cambridge Judge Business School
Supply Chain Competition: A Market Game Approach
Dr Gizem Korpeoglu, Bilkent University
Easter term
19 July 2019 | 12:30-14:00, Room KH217, Cambridge Judge Business School
Data-driven Healthcare, Big and Small
Dr Z. Justin Ren, Boston University Questrom School of Business
30 August 2019 | 12:30-14:00, Room KH217, Cambridge Judge Business School
Pride and Prejudice: the Human Side of Interventional Cardiology
Dr Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University
Lent term
1 March 2019 | 12:30-14:00, Room 217 (Keynes House), Cambridge Judge Business School
Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) Does Not Provide the Right Incentives: Issues and Remedies
Professor Tolga Tezcan, London Business School
15 March 2019 | 13:30-14:30, Room 217 (Keynes House), Cambridge Judge Business School
Predicting Surgery Duration: Physician Input, Statistical Models and Combined Models
Professor Song-Hee Kim, Usc Marshall School of Business
15 March 2019 | 12:30-13:30, Room 217 (Keynes House), Cambridge Judge Business School
Examining Health Workforce Perceptions of Organisational Expectations in Disasters: Leadership Considerations
Dr Daniel Barnett, Bloomberg School of Public Health
2018
Michaelmas term
9 October 2018 | 12:00-14:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Establishing Trust and Trustworthiness in Global Businesses
Professor Özalp Özer, Jindal School of Management
Easter term
18 May 2018 | 12:30-14:00, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
Unintended Consequences of Hospital Regulation: The Case of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP)
Dr Nicos Savva, London Business School
22 May 2018 | 12:30-14:00, Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
The Effect of Flexibility in Delegating Innovation
Dr Morvarid Rahmani, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
Lent term
9 January 2018 | 12:30-14:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Supply Chain Management through Cascading
Dr Feryal Erhun, Cambridge Judge Business School
16 January 2018 | 13:00-14:00, Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School
A Large-scale Optimisation Model for Replicating Portfolios in the Life Insurance Industry
Professor Karl Schmedders, University of Zurich
12 March 2018 | 12:00-14:00, Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School
Project Selection and Investment Carryovers in the Drug Development Process
Panos Markou, Cambridge Judge Business School
20 March 2018 | 12:30-14:00, Room W2.01, Cambridge Judge Business School
Warning Against Recurring Risks: An Information Design Approach
Professor Francis de Véricourt, European School of Management and Technology
23 March 2018 | 12:30-14:00, Room W4.03, Cambridge Judge Business School
Proactive Customer Service: Operational and Economic Analysis
Dr Tolga Tezcan, London Business School