The University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics welcomes  Saurabh Bansal as the W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science featured speaker at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 30, at the FinTech Innovation Hub, Room 501, STAR Campus. A reception will follow the lecture.

Bansal will share insights from his coauthored research, “Redesigning Harvesting Processes and Improving Working Conditions in Agribusiness,” which investigates the potential benefits of redesigning agribusiness operations—specifically, harvesting processes—to enhance both firm performance and working conditions of employees.

Bansal is a professor of supply chain management and faculty of operations research at the Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business. His research is on decision making under risk and uncertainty. His research has appeared in Operations Research, Management Science, Production and Operations Management, among other journals.

He's an associate editor at Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics. He has won several awards for his research and teaching, including the Wagner prize from INFORMS, Decision Analysis Society Publication Award, Decision Analysis Society Practice Award, INFORMS Case Competition, Poets&Quants 40under40, and several other teaching awards.

The W.L.Gore Lecture Series in Management Science is sponsored by an endowment from the Gore family. It features experts in the application of probability, statistics and experimental design to decision making, including applications in academia, business, government, engineering and medicine.

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