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Stephen Chick
Technology and Operations Management Area

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Research interests

Stochastic simulation, Bayesian statistics and decision analysis; optimal learning; mathematical modeling of complex systems; stochastic processes; manufacturing; services in manufacturing; health contracts; applications to health care services, and operations management.

Academic Experience

2008-           Novartis Chair for Healthcare Management; Director, Healthcare Management Initiative, INSEAD.

2009-2012  Area Chair, Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD.

2006-           Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

2001-2006  Associate Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

2001-2003  Associate Professor with Tenure, Dept. Industrial and Operations Engineering, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor (on leave of absence).

1995-2001  Assistant Professor, Dept. Industrial and Operations Engineering, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor.

1995            Visiting Scholar, Dept. Statistics, Stochastics, and Operations Research, Technical Univ. Delft, Holland, (January).

1992-1995 Teaching and Research Assistant, Systems Integration Laboratory, Dept. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Univ. California, Berkeley.

Education

1995 Ph.D. Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, UC Berkeley. Supported by NDSEG Fellowship, Dept.Defense, Office of Naval Research. Advisor: Max Mendel. Committee: Richard E Barlow, Jean Walrand.

1992 M.S. Operations Research, UC Berkeley.

1990 B.S. Mathematics, Stanford. Minor in Computer Science.

Industry Experience

2022-           Mentor, Voice of Healthcare Incubator: Transforming Health for Tomorrow. India. https://vohincubator.org/.

2002-2015  Co-Organizer, Industrial Excellence Award (“top factory” competition organized by INSEAD, WHU and media partners including WirtschaftsWoche). https://industrial-excellence-award.eu/.

1996-2000  Tauber Manufacturing Institute (TMI) faculty advisor for summer projects. Projects include Chrysler (production), Carrier (global production), and Eli Lilly (supply chain).

1989-1990  Project Manager, TechniCon Computer Services, Emeryville, CA. Developed and delivered CAD and facilities layout software distributed on multiple platforms to 1000+ seats.

1988-1989  Software Engineer, Raya Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA. Part of a team that developed a diabetes analysis software package that was distributed to physicians worldwide.

1985-1988  Industrial Systems Analyst, CKGP & Associates, Birmingham, MI. Led a dozen simulation analysis projects as part of team that designed material handling systems for the automotive industry.

Awards and Honours

2023 Nominated, with Atalay Atasu, for ‘Best Practical’ intensive elective in INSEAD Masters in Management programme, 'Sustainable Business Model Innovation’.

2022 INSEAD Dean’s Commendation for Excellent Collegial Mentoring and Support.

2022 Winner, International Sepsis Forum (ISF) Abstract Award, for refereed abstract at European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Oct 22-26, 2022, by van Mourik et al.

2021 Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

2021-2023 Elected officer of INFORMS Health Application Society: Vice President/President-Elect 2021. President 2022. Past President 2023.

2021 Finalist, Production and Operations Management (POMS) 2021 College on Health Operations Management (CHOM) Best Paper Competition.

2020 December Plenary speaker at the 2020 Winter Simulation Conference. ‘Health Resource Allocation: Lessons for Today from Past Outbreaks’. 

2018 Runner-Up, 2018 Pierskalla Award (SE Chick, N Gans, O Yapar), from the INFORMS Health Applications Section.

2017 The United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and France’s Haute Autorité de Santé, cite Journal for use in selecting most appropriate math model for a given health economic analysis.

2017 Finalist Pierskalla Award (S Zorc, SE Chick, S Hasija), from the INFORMS Health Applications Section.

2017 Finalist IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award (S Zorc with SE Chick, S Hasija), from the INFORMS Service Science Section.

2014-2015 INSEAD Executive Education Programme Director Award.

2015 Runner-Up, Pierskalla Award (SE Chick, M Forster, P Pertile) from the INFORMS Health Applications Section.

2013 EFMD Case Writing Competition, Highly Commended Runner-Up in Entrepreneurship Category (‘Laastari: Building a Retail Health Clinic Chain’).

2013 Keynote: New challenges and opportunities for health modelers. Inst. for Mathematics and Its Applications: Conf. on Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health and Social Care, London.

2007 Keynote: Taxonomy of Model Structures for Health Economics. Inst. for Mathematics and Its Applications: Conf. on Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health Care, London.

2006 Pierskalla Award (SE Chick, H Mamani, D Simchi-Levi) from the INFORMS Health Applications Section.

2006 Keynote: Service Delivery System Improvements in the UK National Health Service. Hospital Management Asia 2006 Conference, Singapore.

Updated: Oct 2023

Contact

Stephen E. Chick

Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Novartis Chair of Healthcare Management

INSEAD Europe Campus
Boulevard de Constance
Fontainebleau
France

Tel: +33 (0)1 60 72 41 57
Fax: +33 (0)1 60 72 92 40
Email: [email protected]