Karan Girotra

Cornell Tech

2 West Loop Rd.

New York, NY 10044

United States

http://www.girotra.com

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Ithaca, NY 14850

United States

http://www.girotra.com

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Scholarly Papers (27)

1.

Using Large Language Models for Idea Generation in Innovation

The Wharton School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 02 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2024
University of Pennsylvania, Cornell Tech, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and The Wharton School
Downloads 10,116 (1,113)
Citation 26

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innovation, idea generation, creativity, creative problem solving, LLM, large-scale language models, AI, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT

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Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea

INSEAD Business School Research Paper No. 2009/65/TOM
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014
Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich
Cornell Tech, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and The Wharton School
Downloads 2,675 (10,198)
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Creativity, Brainstorming, Innovation, Idea Generation, Idea Selection, Team, Group, Individuals

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Bike-Share Systems: Accessibility and Availability

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 15-04
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 26 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2019
Ashish Kabra, Elena Belavina and Karan Girotra
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech
Downloads 2,141 (14,517)
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Online Grocery Retail: Revenue Models and Environmental Impact

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 14-37, INSEAD Working Paper No. 2015/06/TOM
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2015
Elena Belavina, Karan Girotra and Ashish Kabra
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell Tech and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,271 (32,276)
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Electric Vehicles with a Battery Switching Station: Adoption and Environmental Impact

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2013/108/TOM
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2014
Buket Avci, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
Independent, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 1,128 (38,251)
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The Operational Advantages of Threshold Discounting Offers

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/41/TOM
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016
Simone Marinesi, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
ESCP Business School, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 909 (51,926)
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Threshold Discounting, Groupon, Crowdsourcing, Strategic Customers, Business Model Innovation

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Recovering Global Supply Chains from Sourcing Interruptions: The Role of Sourcing Strategy

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/58/TOM
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2021
Nitish Jain, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
London Business School, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 821 (59,673)
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supply chain, sourcing interruption, supplier diversification, long-term relationships, empirical analysis, time to recovery

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Empirical Evidence for Domain Name Performance

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/41/TOM
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 09 May 2012
Karan Girotra and Karl T. Ulrich
Cornell Tech and The Wharton School
Downloads 796 (62,287)

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Domain Names, Naming, Branding, Euphony, Phonology, Linguistics

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Business Model Innovation for Sustainability

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2013/77/TOM
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 05 Jul 2013
Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 714 (72,022)
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Interesting, Important and Impactful Operations Management

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 11 May 2019
Gerard P Cachon, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
The Wharton School - Operations, Information and Decisions Department, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 668 (78,084)
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Operations Management, Fragmentation, M&SOM, New Research Areas, Innovation

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Matching in Labor Marketplaces With Experiential Learning

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 27 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2024
Ken Moon, Jiding Zhang, Elena Belavina and Karan Girotra
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Arizona State University (ASU) - Department of Information Systems, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech
Downloads 640 (82,417)
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Choice modeling and estimation, Empirical operations management, Information friction, Market intermediaries, Marketplace design, Matching with costly screening, Moment inequalities, Online labor markets

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The Use and Value of Social Information in Selective Selling of Exclusive Products

Forthcoming at Management Science
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2019
Ruslan Momot, Elena Belavina and Karan Girotra
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech
Downloads 633 (83,544)
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Managing Global Sourcing: Inventory Performance

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2013/65/TOM
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2013
Nitish Jain, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
London Business School, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 629 (84,220)
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Customer Preference and Station Network in the London Bike Share System

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-20
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 11 May 2019
Pu He, Fanyin Zheng, Elena Belavina and Karan Girotra
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech
Downloads 606 (88,290)
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The Relational Advantages of Intermediation

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2012/19/TOM
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2012
Elena Belavina and Karan Girotra
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech
Downloads 594 (90,610)
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Global Sourcing, Intermediairies, Supply Chain Relationships, Relational Contracts, Flexibility, Li & Fung, Repeated Games

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A Review of Choice Modeling in the Marketing-Operations Management Interface

Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 17-60, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-85
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Aug 2017
Universidad de Chile, University of Chile, Rice University, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, Columbia University, Cornell Tech, Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Boston College, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella - School of Business and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
Downloads 530 (104,436)
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Choice Models, Marketing-Operations Interface, Econometrics, Empirical Research

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Private vs. Pooled Transportation: Customer Preference and Design of Green Transport Policy

Forthcoming at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2023
Kashish Arora, Fanyin Zheng and Karan Girotra
Indian School of Business, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Cornell Tech
Downloads 525 (105,720)

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Empirical Operations Management, Ride-hailing Services, Congestion Management, Choice Model, Structural Estimation, Machine Learning

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Using Artificial Intelligence To Reduce Food Waste

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Jun 2024
Yu Nu, Elena Belavina and Karan Girotra
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech
Downloads 492 (115,804)

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Food Waste; Artificial Intelligence; Sustainability; Computer Vision; Impact Analysis; Per- ishable Inventory Management.

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Valuing R&D Projects in a Portfolio: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Mar 2010
Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich
Cornell Tech, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and The Wharton School
Downloads 370 (159,079)
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product development, pharmaceuticals, development pipeline, portfolio properties, backup projects, portfolio management

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Information Acquisition Through Customer Voting Systems

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2013/99/TOM
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2013
Simone Marinesi and Karan Girotra
ESCP Business School and Cornell Tech
Downloads 280 (214,180)
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Customer Voting Systems, Information Sharing, Crowdsourcing, Crowdvoting, Strategic Customers, Open Operationstions

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R&D Spending: Dynamic or Persistent?

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2018/03/TOM
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2018
Christophe Pennetier, Karan Girotra and Jurgen Mihm
INSEAD, Cornell Tech and INSEAD
Downloads 276 (217,450)
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R&D Strategy, R&D Spending, Variability in R&D Spending, Innovation, Arellano–Bond GMM Estimation

Synchronizing Global Supply Chains: Advance Purchase Discounts

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2010/07/DS/TOM
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Feb 2010
Wenjie Tang and Karan Girotra
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell Tech
Downloads 139 (405,741)
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Synchronizing Global Supply Chains: Advance Purchase Discounts

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2010
Wenjie Tang and Karan Girotra
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Cornell Tech
Downloads 103 (511,273)
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The Strategic Perils of Delayed Differentiation

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Mar 2010
Karan Girotra and Krishnan S. Anand
Cornell Tech and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 120 (453,386)
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Postponement, Flexibility, Strategic Committment, Supply Chain Management

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Using Advance Purchase Discount Contracts: Operational Cost, Cost Opacity, and Timing

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Jan 2015
Wenjie Tang and Karan Girotra
University of Vienna and Cornell Tech
Downloads 67 (654,574)

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Online Compendium to the book chapter 'Threshold Discounting: Operational Benefits, Potential Drawbacks, and Optimal Design'

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 07 Sep 2017
Simone Marinesi, Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine
ESCP Business School, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
Downloads 38 (833,596)

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Pricing, Revenue Management, Groupon, Strategic consumers, Operations

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Liveops Inc.: The Contact Centre Reinvented

INSEAD Working Paper No. 6097
Posted: 27 Feb 2017
UCD, Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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work-from-home contact centers, virtual contact centers, on-demand service platforms, online communities

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First Ranked First to Serve: Strategic Agents in a Service Contest

Posted: 30 Nov 2015
UCD, Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Cornell Tech and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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work-from-home call centers, service contest, strategic servers, server priorities, service operations