Audrey Bazerghi
PhD candidate in Operations Management
Contact Information
audrey dot bazerghi at kellogg.northwestern.edu
Faculty advisors
About me
I am a fourth year PhD candidate in Operations Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. I received the B.Eng. degree in Engineering Physics from Polytechnique Montréal (Canada) in 2015 and the SM/MBA degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) as a Leaders for Global Operations fellow in 2020. From 2015 to 2018, I worked at Oliver Wyman as a management consultant advising clients in North America on topics focusing on procurement and logistics. In my spare time, I enjoy hiking, climbing and learning new languages.
Research Interests
My research interests include supply chain management, optimization, inventory control and sustainability.
Recent work
I recently released a research paper with Jan A. Van Mieghem entitled “Last Time Buys during Product Rollovers: Manufacturer & Supplier Equilibria” and a white paper companion “Last Time Buy or Last Resort? Insights from the Field.” When a supplier decides to obsolete a legacy component to focus resources on new growth products, original equipment manufacturers are faced with a difficult situation: how can they continue to support old products with important user bases even after a supplier obsoletes a critical component? Last time buys are one of the most widespread solutions. Our research paper uses game theory to study how supplier and manufacturer interact during a negotiation that considers both the last time buy of an old part and the launch of its successor.
Working papers
Last Time Buys during Product Rollovers: Manufacturer and Supplier Equilibria. Bazerghi, A. and Van Mieghem, J. A. (January 21, 2024). Accepted in Production and Operations Management. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4292257
First place for 2023 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition
Last Time Buy or Last Resort? Insights from the Field. Bazerghi, A. and Van Mieghem, J. A. (May 18, 2022). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4114913