Sam AFLAKI

Associate Professor

Information Systems & Operations Management

Biography

Sam Aflaki holds a Ph.D. in management from INSEAD. His current research focuses on sustainable decision making, operations management, and (energy) policies. His research has been published in leading management and economics journals as well as being recognized in a number of INFORMS' prestigious competitions. Sam teaches the operations management course in various programs including the MSc and EMBA.

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Scientific articles

Input-price Risk Management: Technology Improvement and Financial Hedging

Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming, (in coll. with A. SHANTIA, H. GHODDUSI)

Optimal Feed-In Tariff Policies: The Impact of Market Structure and Technology Characteristics

Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming, (in coll. with S. GOODARZI, A. MASINI)

Is your valley as green as it should be? Incorporating economic development into environmental performance indicators

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, October 2018, vol. 20, n° 8, pp 1903–1915, (in coll. with S. BASHER, A. MASINI)

Strategic Investment in Renewable Energy Sources: The Effect of Supply Intermittency

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Summer 2017, vol. 19, n° 3, pp 489-507, (in coll. with S. NETESSINE)

Competition and The Operational Performance of Hospitals: The Role of Hospital Objectives

Production and Operations Management, November 2015, vol. 24, n° 11, pp 1812–1832, (in coll. with D. ANDRITSOS)

Time series properties of the renewable energy diffusion process: Implications for energy policy design and assessment

Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, December 2015, vol. 52, pp 1680-1692, (in coll. with S. BASHER, A. MASINI)

Managing Retention in Service Relationships

Management Science, February 2014, vol. 60, n° 2, pp 415-433, (in coll. with I. POPESCU)

Finding and Implementing Energy Efficiency Projects in Industrial Facilities

Production and Operations Management, May-June 2013, vol. 22, n° 3, pp 503-517, (in coll. with P. Kleindorfer, V. Sáenz de Miera Polvorinos)

The Effect of Environmental Uncertainty on the Tragedy of the Commons

Games and Economic Behavior, November 2013, vol. 82, pp 240-253,

Chapters edited in books

Going Green: The Pfizer Freiburg Energy Initiative

Sustainability In Supply Chain Management, P. A. Soyka, R. Palevich, S. M. Leon (Eds), FT Press

Proceedings

Performance-based contracts for energy efficiency projects

8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management , 2018 , Bandung , 2018 , March (L. DING, R. KAPUSCINSKI)

Time Value Of Different Information Dimensions In The Adoption Of Photovoltaic System

Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings , 2014 , Doha , 1 (S. GOODARZI, A. MASINI)

Working papers

Right Information at the Right Time: Time Value of Information Characteristics for Environmental Technology Adoption

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Input-Price Risk Management: Technology Improvement and Financial Hedging

Stevens Institute of Technology School of Business Research Paper , 2017

Input-Price Risk Management: Technology Improvement and Financial Hedging

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Performance-Based Contracts for Energy Efficiency Projects

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Does Economic Growth Matter? Technology-Push, Demand-Pull and Endogenous Drivers of Innovation in the Renewable Energy Industry

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

Energy Efficiency Contracting in Supply Chains Under Asymmetric Bargaining Power

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

Optimal Feed-In Tariff Policies: The Role of Technology Manufacturers

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

Recovery Targets and Taxation/Subsidy Policies to Promote Product Reuse

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

Time Series Properties of the Renewable Energy Diffusion Process: Implications for Energy Policy Design and Assessment

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2014

Case Studies

Going Green: The Pfizer Freiburg Energy Initiative (A)

This case describes the successful implementation of sustainable operations at Pfizer's Freiburg production facility in Germany. It charts the planning and execution of an ambitious portfolio of projects directed toward energy efficiency, with significant financial, social and environmental impacts. The case illustrates the necessary ingredients of a successful energy conservation programme as well as the financial implications when both carbon and energy are priced. The teaching objectives are to: (1) illustrate the evaluation of energy conservation projects in a manufacturing environment; (2) indicate the relationship between sustainable operations and a company's carbon objective / obligations; (3) highlight the importance of sustainable operations and engineering practices to identify energy and carbon strategies; and (4) illustrate interdependencies in the execution of sustainable practices , 2010 , Energy conservation; Environmental operations; Carbon accounting; ESCO (Energy Services Company); Sustainability; Renewable energy; Kyoto (http://www.thecasecentre.org/programmeAdmin/products/view?id=93771)