bachelor Gestion des opérations I Related programmes Bachelor (BSc) in Economic Sciences Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Management Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Economics

master Supply-Chain Analytics Related programmes Master of Science (MSc) in Management, Orientation Business Analytics Master of Science (MSc) in Management, Orientation Strategy, Organization and Leadership Maîtrise universitaire ès Sciences en management, Orientation Behaviour, Economics and Evolution Master of Science (MSc) in Management, Orientation Marketing

Research areas

Competitive manufacturing in a high-cost environment
The Cost-Differential Frontier calculator is available at
http://cdf.oplab.unil.ch.

Supply chain management
Evaluation of the role of lead time reduction in supply chain improvement efforts

Reducing lead times
The process of reducing lead times in an organization. What motivates companies to reduce lead times? What challenges do they face? What are the organizational and strategic implications?

Lean production
The system dynamics of JIT and lean production
The relationship between inventory reduction and learning
The impact of lean production systems on workers

Process consistency improvement
The role of process documentation in improving process consistency
Implementation issues in process documentation
The impact of requiring that workers perform operations as specified in the process documents on motivation

Health care operations
The application of operations management tools and concepts in the health care management context

Queuing theory-based mathematical modeling of operations

Collaborations

	Jacqueline Jussel jacqueline.jussel@unil.ch			Jordi Weiss jordi.weiss@unil.ch Room: ANT 3090 full description

41 last publications

: Peer Reviewed

2019

	SAARINEN Lauri, de Treville Suzanne (Dir.) (2019). THREE ESSAYS ON THE VALUE OF RESPONSIVENESS FOR A MANUFACTURER. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des hautes études commerciales.

2017

	de Treville S., Cattani K. ; Saarinen L. (2017). Technical note: Option-based costing and the volatility portfolio. Journal of Operations Management, 49–51, 77–81.

	de Treville S., Ketokivi M. ; Singhal V. (2017). Competitive Manufacturing in a High-Cost Environment: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Operations Management, 49-51, 1-5.

2014

	Bicer I., De Treville S. (Dir.) (2014). Modeling and mitigation of supply-demand mismatches. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des hautes études commerciales.

	de Treville S., Petty J. S. ; Wager S. (2014). Economies of Extremes: Lessons from Venture-Capital Decision Making. Journal of Operations Management, 32, 387-398.

	de Treville S., Schuerhoff N., Trigeorgis L. ; Avanzi B. (2014). Optimal Sourcing and Lead-Time Reduction under Evolutionary Demand Risk. Production and Operations Management, 23, 2103-2117.

	de Treville S., Bicer I., Chavez-Demoulin V., Hagspiel V., Schuerhoff N., Tasserit C. ; Wager S. (2014). Valuing lead time. Journal of Operations Management, 32, 337-346.

2013

	Avanzi B., Bicer I., de Treville S. ; Trigeorgis L. (2013). Real Options at the Interface of Finance and Operations: Exploiting Embedded Supply Chain Real Options to Gain Competitiveness. European Journal of Finance, 19, 760-778.

	Wager S. , de Treville S. (2013). Constant Salvage Value Models: A Source of Systematic Bias in Predicting the Value of Lead-Time Reduction. SSRN - Social Science Research Network.

2010

	de Treville S. , Trigeorgis L. (2010). It May Be Cheaper to Manufacture at Home. Harvard Business Review, 88, 84-87.

2009

	de Treville S., Hoffrage U. ; Petty J. S. (2009). Managerial Decision Making and Lead Times: The Impact of Cognitive Illusions. Rapid Modelling for Increasing Competitiveness (pp. 3-14). London, UK: Springer.

	Hüttmeir A., de Treville S., van Ackere A., Monnier L. ; Prenninger J. (2009). Trading Off between Heijunka and Just-in-Sequence. International Journal of Production Economics, 118, 501-507.

2008

	de Treville S., Edelson N. M., Kharkar A. N. ; Avanzi B. (2008). Constructing useful theory : The case of Six Sigma. Operations Management Research, 1, 15-23.

	de Treville S., Trigeorgis L. ; Avanzi B. (2008). Rethinking lead time reduction investment: A real options perspective. UNSW Australian School of Business.

	Petty J., de Tréville S. (Dir.) (2008). A Study of Venture Capital Decision Making. Université de Lausanne, Faculté de biologie et médecine.

2007

	de Treville S., Bendahan S. ; Vanderhaeghe A. (2007). Manufacturing Flexibility and Performance: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, 19, 334-357.

2006

	de Treville S. , Antonakis J. (2006). Could lean production job design be intrinsically motivating? Contextual, configurational, and levels-of-analysis issues. Journal of Operations Management, 24, 99-123.

	de Treville S., Hoffrage U. ; Petty J.S. (2006, Jan). Cognitive illusions in operations management. Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (pp. 17).

	de Treville S., Smith I., Rölli A. ; Arnold V. (2006). Applying operations management logic and tools to save lives: A case study of the World Health Organization's Global Drug Facility. Journal of Operations Management, 24, 397-406.

	de Treville S. , van Ackere A. (2006). Equipping Students to Reduce Lead Times: The Role of Queuing-Theory-Based Modeling. Interfaces, 36, 165-173.

2005

	de Treville S. , Antonakis J. (2005, Jan). Intrinsic motivation in lean production? Contextual, configurational, and levels-of-analysis issues. Academy of Management, Operations Management Division, Honolulu, USA.

	de Treville S., Antonakis J. ; Edelson N.M. (2005). Can standard operating procedures be motivating? Reconciling process variability issues and behavioral outcomes. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 16, 231-241.

	de Treville S., Trigeorgis L. ; Crego A. (2005, Jan). Rethinking lead time reduction investment: A real options perspective. POMS annual conference proceedings (pp. 22). Production and Operations Management Society.

2004

	Avanzi B., Boisvert C., de Treville S. ; Oyon D. (2004, Nov). The Impact of Performance Measurement Systems on Lead Time Reduction. CRITOM Conference.

	de Treville S., Shapiro R.D. ; Hameri A.-P. (2004). From Supply Chain to Demand Chain: The Role of Lead Time Reduction in Improving Demand Chain Performance. Journal of Operations Management, 21, 613-627.

2003

	de Treville S., Antonakis J. ; Edelson N. M. (2003, Jun). Reconciling motivation, creativity, and process variability issues in process documentation. EUROMA-POMS Joint International Conference.

	De Treville S., Smith I., Rölli A. ; Arnold V. (2003). Reducing lead times: Using operations management tools to reach global targets for tuberculosis control. Journal of Operations Management.

	de Treville S. , Vanderhaeghe A. (2003). How to Fail at Flexibility. Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 4, 67-73.

	Vanderhaeghe A. , de Treville S. (2003). Losing the Fight with Flexibility: the Xygma Plant. Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal, 4, 64-67.

1995

	de Treville S., Edelson N. M. ; Watson R. (1995). Getting Six Sigma back to basics. Quality Digest, 15, 42-47.

	Suri R., Diehl G. W. W., de Treville S. ; Tomsicek M. J. (1995). From CAN-Q to MPX: Evolution of queuing software for manufacturing. Interfaces, 25, 128-150.

1994

	de Treville S. (1994). Using Rapid Modeling to make Kaizen work more effectively. APICS, 78-81.

	de Treville S. (1994). Improving the innovation process. OR/MS Today, 28-31.

	de Treville S. , Edelson N. M. (1994). Process discipline: Rethinking technology investment. Industrial Engineering, 26, 45-46.

1993

	de Treville S., Edelson N. M., Kharkar A. N. ; Stutts B. E. (1993, Jan). Are there limits to defect reduction?. Conference proceedings of the EOQ'93 World Quality Congress.

1992

	de Treville S. (1992). Time is money. OR/MS Today, 19, 30-35.

	Edelson N. M., Ellis M. L., Kharkar A. N., Stutts B. E. ; de Treville S. (1992, Jan). A sequential 3-phase process improvement strategy. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Quality Congress, ASQC, 46.

1991

	de Treville S. (1991). Finnish manufacturing systems: Sisu Auto uses MPX to compete based on time. Manufacturing Systems, 9, 14-17.

	de Treville S. , Suri R. (1991). Full speed ahead: A timely look at rapid modeling in operations management. OR/MS Today, 24-42.

1987

	de Tréville S., Hayes Robert (Dir.) (1987). Disruption, Learning, and System Improvement in Just-in-Time Manufacturing. Harvard Business School.

1986

	Suri R. , de Treville S. (1986). Getting from just-in-case to just-in-time: insights from a simple model. Journal of Operations Management, 6, 295-304.

Education

Doctor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, 1987

Master of Science in Industrial Administration. Carnegie-Mellon University 1977

Bachelor of Arts (honors) in English and Mathematics. Carnegie-Mellon University 1975

Work experience

Director of OpLab
http://cdf-oplab.unil.ch

Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, spring 2014

Director of Operations Management Department (2009-2011)

Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics (2006-2009)

Visiting professorships (1987-2001): MIT, the Wharton School, the American Graduate School of International Management

Visiting professor: Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. Vice Dean of the International MBA Program 1987-1988