UMass Boston

Supply Chain Management, Behavioral Operations Management, Operational Risk Management

PhD, University of Minnesota
MBA, Industrial Management Institute
MS and BS, Sharif University of Technology

• Elahi, E. “Outsourcing through Competition: What is the Best Competition Parameter?” International Journal of Production Economics 144.1 (2013): 370-382.
• Sheikhzadeh, M. and E. Elahi, “Product Bundling: Impacts of Product Heterogeneity and Risk Considerations,” International Journal of Production Economics 144.1 (2013): 209-222.
• Elahi, “How Risk Management Can Turn into Competitive Advantage,” Foresight 15 .2 (2013): 117-131.
• Elahi, E., Lamba, N. A., Ramaswamy, C., “How Can We Improve the Performance of Supply Chain Contracts? An Experimental Study” International Journal of Production Economics 142.1 (2013): 146-157.
• Lamba, N. A., Elahi, E., “When Strategy Does Not Match Capabilities: Lessons from the Supply Chain of Boeing 787,” Sumeet Gupta, Miti Garg (Ed.), Cases on Supply Chain and Distribution Management: Issues and Principles, IGI Global, 2012.
• Benjaafar, S., E. Elahi, and K. Donohue, “Outsourcing via Service Competition,” Management Science, 53.2 (2007): 241-259.
• Elahi, E., S. Benjaafar and K. Donohue, “Outsourcing to Non-Identical Suppliers,” Proceedings of the M&SOM Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 19-20, 2006.
• Elahi, E., Benjaafar, S. and K. Donohue “Inventory Competition in Make-to-Stock Systems,” Proceedings of the Fourth Aegean Conference on Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Samos, Greece, July 1-4, 2003 (invited paper).

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Courses Taught

Supply Chain Management, Operational Risk Management, Service Operations Management, Managerial Decision Making, Simulation Modeling, Statistical Analysis for Managers, Mathematical Analysis for Managers