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Peter Bell

Professor, Management Science

Education

  • BA, Hons. - Oxford
  • MA, Oxford
  • MBA, Chicago
  • PhD, Chicago

Contact Information

Profile

Peter C. Bell earned BA and MA degrees from Oxford University and MBA and PhD degrees at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago, and is a Professor of Management Science at Ivey.

He serves as a consultant to corporations, hospitals, small businesses, charities, and government agencies in the areas of competitiveness, pricing, analytics, and operations.

Bell's research interests include using management science/operations research to create competitive advantage, pricing and revenue management, business decision-making, competing with analytics, Excel modeling, and statistical analysis.

In the community, Bell is a Past-President of the Nor'West Optimist Club of London, and was formerly President and Chairman of the Board of Meals-on-Wheels London. In his spare time, he plays golf, and collects and restores classic British motorcycles.

Teaching

  • Competing with Analytics: Executive MBA core course
  • Management Science and Business Statistics: undergraduate and MBA program core
  • Management Science for Competitive Advantage: BA senior elective
  • Executive (short courses) in Management Science, Business Statistics, and Revenue Management

Selected Publications

  • Bell, P.C., 2012, "The Concepts of Revenue Management: A Tutorial", International Transactions in Operational Research, Forthcoming.
  • Kim, S.W., Bell, P.C., 2011, "Optimal Pricing and Production Decisions in the Presence of Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Substitution", Omega-International Journal of Management Science, October, 39(5): 528-538.
  • Chen, J., Bell, P.C., 2011, "The impact of customer returns on decisions in a newsvendor problem with and without buyback policies", International Transactions in Operational Research, July, 18(4): 473-491.
  • Chen, J., Bell, P.C., 2011, "Coordinating a decentralized supply chain with customer returns and price-dependent stochastic demand using a buyback policy", European Journal of Operational Research, July, 212(2): 293-300.  
  • Bell, P.C., Zhang, M., Cai, G., Chen, X., 2010, "Optimal Fences and Joint Price and Inventory Decision in Distinct Markets with Demand Leakage", European Journal of Operational Research, August, 204(3): 589-596.
  • Zhang, M., Bell, P.C., 2010, "Fencing in the Context of Revenue Management", International Journal of Revenue Management, 4(1): 42-68.
  • Chen, J., Bell, P.C., 2009, "The Impact of Customer Returns on Pricing and Order Decisions", European Journal of Operational Research, May, 195(1): 280-295.
  • Bell, P.C., 2008, "Short selling and replaning as tools to enhance revenues" Journal of the Operational Research Society, 59(3): 313-321.
  • Bell, P.C., Zhang, M., 2007, "The effect of market segmentation with demand leakage between market segments on a firm's price and inventory decisions" European Journal of Operational Research, 182(2): 738-754.
  • Bell, P.C., Zhang, M., 2006, "Management Decision-Making in the Single Period Optimum Pricing Problem" Journal of the Operational Research Society,, April, 57(4): 377 - 388.
  • Bell, P.C., Chen, J., 2006, "Cutting costs or enhancing revenues? An example of a multi-product firm with impatient customers illustrates an important choice facing operational researchers" Journal of the Operational Research Society, April, 57(4), 443-449.

 

Research/Course Development

  • Author or coauthor of 15 books, more than 50 articles, and more than 100 cases.

Honours & Awards

  • Award of Merit for outstanding service to the Operational Research profession: Canadian Operational Research Society, 2007
  • Elected a Fellow of INFORMS, 2006
  • INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of MS/OR Practice, 2005

Experience

  • Editor-in-Chief, International Transactions in Operational Research, (1993-2000 and 2006-07)
  • International editorial advisory board, Journal of the Operational Research Society (1999- )
  • Editorial Board, Omega: The International Journal of Management Science (1994 - )
  • Associate Editor, INFOR (1990 - )
  • Vice President, International Activities, INFORMS (2002-2006)
  • Member of the Council of the College on the Practice of Management Science (2002 - )
  • Judge Franz Edelman Award for Management Science Achievement (2000-2006)
  • Judge Daniel H. Wagner Prize competition (2002- )
  • President, International Federation of Operational Research Societies (1995-97)
  • Treasurer, International Federation of Operational Research Societies (2007-)
  • North American Vice-President, International Federation of Operational Research Societies (1989-91)
  • Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Encyclopedia of OR and MS, Klewer Academic Publishers 1996
  • The Institute of Management Sciences: elected Member of the 1991-1993 Council
  • President, Canadian Operational Research Society (1985-86) (Vice-President 1984-85)
  • Visiting Professor, London Business School (UK)
  • Visiting fellow, Warwick Business School (UK)
  • C-I-L Distinguished Lecturer, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Chevron Distinguished Visiting Professor, Simon Fraser University
  • President and Chair of the Board, Meals On Wheels, London (1991-92)
  • President, Nor'West Optimist Club of London (1982-83)

Expertise

  • Competing with analytics
  • Teaching with cases
  • Competitiveness
  • Strategic Management Science
  • Pricing and Revenue Management
  • Business Decision-Making
  • Computer Modeling
  • Management Technology
  • Operational Research and Management Science
  • Statistical Analysis
 

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