Sang Kim
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Yale School of Management

135 Prospect Street, PO Box 208200, New Haven, CT 06520-8200
203.436.8865 (office), 203.432.0342 (fax)
sang.kim@yale.edu
Assistant: Heather Amero, 203.436.4832

[Official Yale SOM Page] [Curriculum Vitae]

Professor Kim specializes in supply chain management and service operations. He focuses on practice-driven problems in these areas, building models based on tools from game theory, contract theory, econometric methods as well as operations research, in order to generate managerial insights and suggest ways to improve efficiency across supply chains and service networks. He has worked closely with the managers in the aerospace and defense industry, where ideas from his research have provided deeper understanding of the observed industry practices and contributed to policy implementations. His other research interests include interface between marketing and operational issues in retailing and analysis of low-probability, high-impact disruptions in supply chains.


Publications

Performance Contracting in After-Sales Service Supply Chains (with M. A. Cohen and S. Netessine). 2007. Management Science, 53(12), 1843-1858.


Working Papers

Reliability or Inventory? Analysis of Product Support Contracts in the Defense Industry (with M. A. Cohen and S. Netessine). 2009. Under review.

Contracting for Infrequent Restoration and Recovery of Mission-Critical Systems (with M. A. Cohen, S. Netessine, and S. Veeraraghavan). 2009. Under review.

Impact of Performance-Based Contracting on Product Reliability: An Empirical Analysis (with M. A. Cohen, J. Guajardo, and S. Netessine). 2009. Under revision.

Supply Chain Collaboration Under Information Asymmetry (with S. Netessine). 2009. Under review.

Capacity Competition in Multi-Indentured Service Supply Chains. 2009. In preparation.

Incentives for Cost Reduction When Consumers Are Strategic (with R. Swinney). 2009. In preparation.

Behavior-Based Bundling (with J. Shin and K. Sudhir). 2009. In preparation.


In the News

Pay for What You Get: Putting Performance-based Contracting to the Test. October 14, 2009. Knowledge@Wharton.

'Power by the Hour': Can Paying Only for Performance Redefine How Products Are Sold and Serviced? February 21, 2007. Knowledge@Wharton.


Honors and Awards

MSOM Meritorious Service Award. 2008.

First Place, George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award. 2008.

First Place, POMS College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition (co-winner: N. Bakshi). 2008.

Honorable Mention, MSOM Student Paper Competition. 2006.

Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Military Applications. 2006.

SOLE Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award. 2006.

NSF IGERT Doctoral Fellowship in Global Manufacturing Logistics. 2003-07.


Teaching

MGT 875: Service Operations Management (with E. Pinker). Spring 2009.

MGT 873: Supply Chain Management. Spring 2009.