Can Zhang

Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

100 Fuqua Dr

Durham, NC North Carolina 27708

United States

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Inventory Sharing for Perishable Products: Application to Platelet Inventory Management in Hospital Blood Banks

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2024
Can Zhang, Turgay Ayer, Chelsea C White, Joy Bodeker and John Roback
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Emory Healthcare and Emory University - Departments of Pathology and laboratory medicine
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Blood Banks, Platelets, Perishable Products, Transshipment, Value of Inventory Sharing

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Truthful Mechanisms for Medical Surplus Product Allocation

Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Research Paper No. 17-38
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 10 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2018
Can Zhang, Atalay Atasu, Turgay Ayer and L. Beril Toktay
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, INSEAD, Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) and Georgia Institute of Technology - Sustainability
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Socially Responsible Operations; Humanitarian Supply Chains; Medical Surplus; Resource Allocation; Mechanism Design

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Prioritizing Hepatitis C Treatment in U.S. Prisons

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 15 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2018
Turgay Ayer, Can Zhang, Anthony Bonifonte, Anne Spaulding and Jagpreet Chhatwal
Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Emory University - Rollins School of Public Health and Harvard University - Harvard Medical School
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public health, hepatitis C, resource allocation, treatment prioritization, multi-armed bandits, agent-based simulation

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Extended Producer Responsibility for Pharmaceuticals

Forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2021
Isil Alev, Atalay Atasu, L. Beril Toktay and Can Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), INSEAD, Georgia Institute of Technology - Sustainability and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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Extended Producer Responsibility, Pharmaceuticals, Environmental Policy, Social Welfare

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Healthcare Inventory Management

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2023
Turgay Ayer, Chelsea C. White III and Can Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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Analysis and Improvement of Blood Collection Operations

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Oct 2017
Turgay Ayer, Can Zhang, Chenxi Zeng, Chelsea C White and V. Roshan Joseph
Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) and Georgia Institute of Technology
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Partial Completion as a Nonprofit Strategy

Forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2021
Can Zhang, Atalay Atasu and Karthik Ramachandran
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, INSEAD and Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business
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Nonprofit Operations; Incomplete Products; Product Variety; Fairness

8.

Farm Equipment Sharing in Emerging Economies

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 29 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2024
Olufunke Adebola, Priyank Arora and Can Zhang
Hello Tractor, University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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socially responsible operations, farm equipment sharing, emerging economies, demand aggregation

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Truncated Balancing Policy for Perishable Inventory Management: Combating High Shortage Penalties

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2023
Can Zhang, Turgay Ayer and Chelsea C. White III
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) and Georgia Institute of Technology - The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE)
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perishable inventory; high shortage penalties; approximation policies; FIFO issuing policy

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Index-Based Yield Protection for Smallholder Farmers

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 20 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 14 May 2025
Kehan Lu, Jing-Sheng Jeannette Song and Can Zhang
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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smallholder farmers, agricultural subsidies, yield uncertainty, index-based yield protection

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Mitigating Shortages of Generic Drugs: The Role of Reliability Certification

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 11 Jul 2024
Robert Swinney, Xiaoyu Wu and Can Zhang
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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generic drugs, supply disruptions, reliability certification

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Sustainable Sourcing of Agricultural Products: Fixed vs. Flexible Premiums


Number of pages: 87 Posted: 16 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 14 May 2025
Vishal Agrawal and Can Zhang
Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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sustainable sourcing; agricultural products; certification; flexible premium, agricultural products, certification, flexible premium

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Feature-based Scheduling and Dynamic Learning with a Large Backlog

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Jun 2024
N. Bora Keskin and Can Zhang
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
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feature-based scheduling, data-driven prioritization, dynamic learning, service time uncertainty