Faculty profiles
Nicos Savva
PhD (Cambridge)
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Operations
- Subject area:
- Management Science and Operations
- Research activity:
- Institute of Technology
- Personal site:
- Personal web page
Expertise
Nicos uses mathematics and economics to build models that help companies manage strategic challenges, for example designing pharma-biotech alliance contracts, and enhancing efficiency, for example improving queues in retail outlets.
Publications
‘Nurse Staffing in the Presence of Endogenous Absenteeism’, (with Linda Green and Sergei Savin), (Forthcoming, Management Science); ‘Physician Workload and Hospital Reimbursement, (with Adam Powell and Sergei Savin), (2012, M&SOM); ‘Double or Quits: New Product Co-development with Opt-Out Options’, (with Stefan Scholtes), (Forthcoming, Production and Operations Management); ‘The economics of licensing contracts’, Nature Biotechnology (August 2008); ‘Irreversible Investment with Price Ceilings in Oligopolies’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, (March 2009).
Research interest
Health care operations, collaborative new product development and R&D, operations management, contract theory, game theory.
Other activities
Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management; Reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, M&SOM, Production and Operations Management and Decision Sciences; Consulting on project and portfolio valuation, contract design and operational improvements.
Formerly
Research Fellow, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.