Nikolay Osadchiy is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Emory University's Goizueta Business School. His research interests are in supply chain management, where he studies supply networks and how they affect risk and operational performance, and in revenue management where he studies the impact of behavioral regularities on pricing. Nikolay has published in the leading academic journals including Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. He serves as Executive Vice President and President-Elect of the MSOM Society. His editorial duties include serving as a senior editor at Production and Operations Management, guest associate editor at Management Science, and an associate editor at Service Science. Nikolay's practice-focused work has been published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He regularly contributes to the media commenting on the current supply chain developments.

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Research

1. New: Microfoundations of Link Formation in Supply Networks, with Kashish Arora.
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2. New: Value Destruction and Recovery from Supply Chain Disruptions, with Yue Tang.
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3. New: Inventory Productivity and Carbon Emissions in Retailing
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4. New: Fragmentation and Visibility in Supply Networks, with Vishal Gaur and Maximiliano Udenio.
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5. Updated: The Lost Decade for the U.S. Manufacturing Jobs: A Story of Cost and Risk, with Shi Qiu and Sridhar Seshadri.
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6. Updated: Optimal Design and Pricing of Sequenced Bundles in the Presence of Satiation, with Ragip Gurlek and Manel Baucells.
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   • App: Optimal bundle personalization with satiation
   
   
7. Trade Credit and Portfolio Approach to Managing Cash Flow Variability, with Bill Schmidt and Jing Wu, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2025, 27(3):935-954
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8. Demand Shocks in Supply Networks: Ripple Effects. In: Ivanov, D., Dolgui, A., Sokolov, B.(eds) Handbook of Ripple Effects in the Supply Chain. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 276. Springer, 2025
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9. Outsourcing as a Risk Management Mechanism for Domestic Manufacturing Capacity Investment, with Shi Qiu and Sridhar Seshadri. Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management 18, no. 1 (2024): 84-102
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10. Inventory Productivity and Stock Returns in Manufacturing Networks, with Deepak Agrawal. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2023, 26(2):573-593.
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    • Data dashboard: Upstreamness of firms in the supply network (2003-2019): Layer and Weighted Layer
    
    
11. Sourcing for Online Retail Marketplaces with Demand and Price Uncertainty, with Vishal Gaur, Sridhar Seshadri, and Marti Subrahmanyam. Production and Operations Management 32 (10), 3062-3080, 2023.
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12. Why It's So Hard to Map Global Supply Chains , with Vishal Gaur and Maximiliano Udenio. Harvard Business Review, Oct. 2022.
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13. The Bullwhip Effect in Supply Networks, with Bill Schmidt and Jing Wu. Management Science, Vol. 67, No. 10, 2021, featured article.
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14. The Right Way to Mix and Match Your Customers, with Bill Schmidt and Jing Wu. Sloan Management Review, Summer 2021.
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15. Supply Network Drivers of Risk and Performance, with Marcus Bellamy. Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management Eds. Tom Choi, 2019.
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16. Are Patients Patient? The Role of Time to Appointment on Patient Flow, with Diwas KC. Production and Operations Management Vol 26, No. 3, March 2017.
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17. Systematic Risk in Supply Chain Networks, with Vishal Gaur and Sridhar Seshadri. Management Science , Vol. 62, No. 6, June 2016, pp. 1755-1777.
    Earlier version: "Systematic Risk and Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains"
    Media coverage: Taming the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains Strategy+Business, Booz&Co.
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18. Behavioral Anomalies in Consumer Wait-or-Buy Decisions and Their Implications for Markdown Management, with Manel Baucells and Anton Ovchinnikov. Operations Research Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 357-378.
    Media coverage: Customer Focused Retail Strategy IEDP Developing Leaders, 2016.
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19. Sales Forecasting with Financial Indicators and Experts' Input, with Vishal Gaur and Sridhar Seshadri. Production and Operations Management, Vol. 22, No. 5, September-October 2013, pp.1056-1076.
    Runner-up, The Inaugural M&SOM/iFORM Best Paper Award, 2014.
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20. Selling with Binding Reservations in the Presence of Strategic Consumers, with Gustavo Vulcano. Management Science Vol. 56, No. 12, December 2010, pp. 2173-2190.
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21. Dealer Inventory and the Linkage between Primary and Secondary Markets for Eurozone Sovereign Debt, with Alexander Eisl, Christian Ochs, and Marti Subrahmanyam
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22. Are Consumers Really Strategic? Implications of an Experimental Study, with Elliot Bendoly.
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23. The Correlation of Supply Chain Risk and Financial Market Returns, with Vishal Gaur and Sridhar Seshadri. In proceedings of 2008 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2009.
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24. The Centroidal Algorithm in Molecular Similarity and Diversity Calculations on Confidential Datasets, with Sergey Trepalin. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design Vol. 19, No. 9, pp. 715-729, 2005.
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