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Current Projects
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Selected Publications and Theses
- Russell, T., Boutilier, J., Kleinmann, S., and Goentzel, J. “Actionable Analysis: Simulating and Visualizing Fuel Distribution During Disasters,” Report for the National Academy of Sciences Project 2000009447, May 2020.
- Janjevic, M., Goentzel, J., and Winkenbach, M. “Time to modernize supply chain design,” Supply Chain Management Review, Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 6-8, January/February 2020.
- Boutilier, J., Goentzel, J., and Windle, M. “Disaster Supply Chains: Moving from Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis,” Report for the National Academy of Sciences Project 2000009447, May 2019.
- Brennan, M., Sundar, P., Goentzel, J., Frey, D., and Mathias, J. “One More Tool for the Food Assistance Toolbox? Experimental Evidence on Food Assistance Packaging.” Food Policy, In Press (Available Online), 2019.
- Moline, J., Goentzel, J., Gralla, E. “Models for Locating and Staffing FEMA’s Disaster Recovery Centers.” Decision Sciences, In Press (Available Online), 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/deci.12359
- Castañeda, J.A., Brennan, M., and Goentzel, J. “A behavioral investigation of supply chain contracts for a newsvendor problem in a developing economy.” International Journal of Production Economics, Volume 210, pages 72-83, April 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2018.12.024
- Carland, C., Goentzel, J., and Montibeller, G. “Modeling the values of private sector agents in multi-echelon humanitarian supply chains.”European Journal of Operational Research. Volume 269, Issue 2, pages 532-543, September 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.02.010
- Gralla, E. and Goentzel, J. “Humanitarian transportation planning: Evaluation of practice-based heuristics and recommendations for improvement.” European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 269, Issue 2, pages 436-450, September 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.02.012
- Veatch, M. and Goentzel, J. “Feeding the bottleneck: airport congestion during relief operations.” Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Vol. 8 Issue: 4, pages 430-446, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHLSCM-01-2018-0006
- McQuilkin, Patricia A., Michelle Niescierenko, Ann Marie Beddoe, Jarrod Goentzel, Elinor A. Graham, Patricia C. Henwood, Lise Rehwaldt, Sisay Teklu, Janis Tupesis, and Roseda Marshall. “Academic Medical Support to the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Liberia.” Academic Medicine, Volume 92, Issue 12, pages 1674-1679, December 2017.
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Brennan, M., Goentzel, J., Gooding, E., Green J., and Spielberg, J. “Scaling Adoption of Hermetic Post-harvest Storage Technologies in Uganda”, MIT Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation, February 2017.
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Chastain, Parker, and Hasselberg, Erin. “Supply Chain
management Degree and Certificate Programs: A Landscape Analysis of African-base Offerings“. November 2016. -
Carland, Corinne, and Goentzel, Jarrod. “Evaluating Business Criteria for Scaling Stock of Malaria Rapid Diagnostics”, MIT Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation, October 2016.
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Acimovic, Jason, and Goentzel, Jarrod. “Models and metrics to assess humanitarian response capacity“, Journal of Operations Management, Volume 45, Pages 11 – 29, July 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jom.2016.05.003
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Gralla, E., Goentzel, J. and Fine, C. “Problem formulation and solution mechanisms: a behavioral study of humanitarian transportation planning.” Production and Operations Management, Volume 25, Issue 1, pages 22–35, January 2016. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.12496
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Sundararaman, P., Brennan, M.E., Goentzel, J., and Frey, D.D. “Development of Experimental Design for the Evaluation of Food Aid Packaging.” Procedia Engineering, Volume 159, pages 222–229, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.08.166
- Haavisto, I, and Goentzel, J. “Measuring humanitarian supply chain performance in a multi-goal context.” Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Volume 5 Issue 3, pages 300-324, October 2015. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.12110
- Carland, C., Goentzel, J., Streat, E., and Montibeller, G. “Scaling up Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Private Sector Supply Chains in Uganda: Adapting Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis as a Methodology to Understand Decision-making and Preferences,” The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 93, Issue 4 Supplement, Page 27, October 2015.
- Gralla, E, Goentzel, J., and Van de Walle, B. “Understanding the information needs of field-based decision-makers in humanitarian response to sudden onset disasters.” Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference, Palen, Buscher, Comes and Hughes, eds. Kristiansand, Norway, May 24-27, 2015.
- Gralla, E., Goentzel, J., and Chomilier, B. “Case Study of a Humanitarian Logistics Simulation Exercise and Insights for Training Design.” Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Volume 5 Issue 1, pages 113–138, January 2015. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHLSCM-01-2014-0001
- Jahre, M., Ergun, O., and Goentzel, J. “One Size Fits All? Using Standard Global Tools in Humanitarian Logistics.” Procedia Engineering, Volume 107, pages 18–26, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.06.054
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Carland, C., Frey, D., Goentzel, J., Graves, S., Green J., Murcott, S., Sanyal, B., and Spielberg, J. “Household Water Filter Evaluation – Ahmedabad, India”, MIT Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation, Fall 2015.
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Goentzel, Jarrod, and Heigh, Ian. “Supply Chains in Crisis.” Inside Logistics, Pages 16 – 18. July 2015.
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Gralla, E., Goentzel, J., and Chomilier, B. “Case Study of a Humanitarian Logistics Simulation Exercise and Insights for Training Design.” Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM). Accepted January 2015.
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Carland, C., Frey, D., Goentzel, J., Graves, S., Green J., Montgomery, B., Sanyal, B., Spielberg, J., and de Weck, O. “Experimentation in Product Evaluation: The Case of Solar Lanterns in Uganda, Africa”, MIT Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation, January 2015.
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Rancourt, M., F. Bellavance
and J. Goentzel. “Market analysis and transportation procurement for food aid in Ethiopia.” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Volume 48, Issue 3, pages 198–219, September 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2014.07.001 -
Juan, A., Goentzel, J. and Bektas, T. “Routing Fleets with Multiple Driving Ranges: is it possible to use greener fleet configurations?” Applied Soft Computing, Volume 21, pages 84–94, August 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2014.03.012
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Gralla, E., Goentzel, J. and Fine, C. “Assessing Trade-offs among Multiple Objectives for Humanitarian Aid Delivery Using Expert Preferences.”Production and Operations Management, Volume 23, Issue 6, pages 978–989, June 2014. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.12110
- Zissman, M. A., Evans, J. E., Holcomb, K. T., Jones, D. A., Kercher, M. R., Mineweaser, J. L., Schiff, A.C., Shattuck, M. M., Gralla, E. L., Goentzel, J., Heatherly, C., Czarnik, J., Rodgers, A., Wooten, A., Brennan, M., Mach, O., Cleaves, A., Hartnett, G., Simon, G., Ivers, L.C. “Development and Use of a Comprehensive Humanitarian Assessment Tool in Post-Earthquake Haiti.” Procedia Engineering, 78, pages 10-21, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.07.033
- Sullivan, E., Goentzel, J., and Weintraub, R. “The Global Health Supply Chain.” Concept Note GHD-C01, Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston. April 2012.
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Goentzel, J., and Spens, K. “Humanitarian Logistics in the United States: Supply Chain Systems for Responding to Domestic Disasters.” Chapter in Humanitarian Logistics: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters. Eds. Martin Christopher and Peter Tatham, Kogan Page, London, 2011.
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Goentzel, J., Cottray, O., and Verjee, F. “Geographic Information Systems in Humanitarian Supply Chains.” Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chains: Case Studies and Research Issues. Ed. Dave Goldsman. Routledge, New York, 2011.
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Allain, L., Goentzel, J., Bates, J. and Durgavich, J. “Reengineering Public Health Supply Chains for Improved Performance: Guide for Applying Supply Chain Segmentation Framework.” Arlington, Va.: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, Task Order 1, 2010.
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Budhiraj, Karn and Gabriel de la Torre Castro. “Suggested Strategies and Best Practices in Private Supply Chain Disaster Response.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2010.
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Kim, Sujin and Javed Singha. “WFP Supply Chain Capacity in Ethiopia: An Analysis of its Sufficiency, Constraints & Impact.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2010.
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Heberley, Christine and Matthew Hoover. “Managing Growth of a Non-Profit Healthcare Supply Chain in Haiti.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2010.
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Chander, Vidya and Lauren Shear. “Humanitarian Aid in Less Secure Regions: An Analysis of World Food Programme Operations in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2009.
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Malaver, Gina
and Colin Regnier. “Structuring Strategic Decisions Through the Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Case Study in the Selection of Warehouse Location for WFP in Ethiopia.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2009. -
Appling, William. “Making the Business Case for Technology in the Humanitarian Relief Sector.” Master of Engineering Thesis, Zaragoza Logistics Center, May 2006.
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Akkihal, A. “Inventory Pre-Positioning for Humanitarian Logistics.” Master of Engineering in Logistics Thesis, MIT 2006.
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Davidson, A. “Key Performance Indicators in Humanitarian Logistics.” Master of Engineering in Logistics Thesis, MIT 2006.
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Russell, Tim. “The Humanitarian Relief Supply Chain: Analysis of the 2004 South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami.” Master of Engineering in Logistics Thesis, MIT 2005 (related MIT News article).
- Wiseman, M. “An Analysis of Household Characteristics Impacting Food Security and Market Participation in Rural Uganda,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2019.
- Rains, R. “Demand Forecasting for Ebola Responses,” Master of Applied Science Capstone, MIT, May 2019.
- Picchione, K. “Dynamics of agribusiness decision making in Uganda,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2018.
- García Castillo, J. “Effects and mitigation of natural hazards in retail networks,” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2018.
- Turner, B. “Toward Effective Common Operating Policies for Medical Items in Ongoing Humanitarian Operations – The Science and Art of Segmentation – A Case Study,” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2018
- Zhang, M. and Zhang, Q. “Unlocking value in healthcare delivery channels,” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2017.
- Breitbach, T. “Supply Chain Financing in Developing Countries,” Doctoral Thesis, MIT, May 2017.
- Zielske, I. “A mixed methods approach to modeling personal protective equipment supply chains for infectious disease outbreak response,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2016.
- Gooding, E. “A mixed methods approach to modeling personal protective equipment supply chains for infectious disease outbreak response,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2016.
- Brennan, M. “Experimentation with procurement to design and model supply chains in developing economies,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2016.
- Seelbach, L. “Stochastic modeling to allocate and assess disaster response capacity in logistics networks,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2015.
- Carland, C. “Using multi-criteria decision analysis to assess private sector agents’ preferences and priorities in stocking malaria rapid diagnostic test kits in Uganda,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2015.
- Dokmo, C. and Patel, N. “Financing Medicine’s Last Mile in Uganda: Exploring Linkages between Patient Access to Medicine and Supply Chain Access to Finance,” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2015.
- Zhang, B. “Decision analysis of novel point-of-care diagnostics for Pediatric Pneumonia: implementation in Developing countries with tiered healthcare systems,” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2015.
- Moline, Julia. “Data-Driven Resource Allocation Decisions: FEMA’s Disaster Recovery Centers.” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2014.
- Ghersa, Ricardo and Chelsey Graham. “Increasing Access to Medicines in Southern Africa.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2014.
- Marcil, Thomas Henry. “Performance Measurement and Signaling in the Humanitarian Marketplace.” Master of Science Thesis, MIT, May 2013.
- Nishimura, Kathryn K. and Jian Wang. “Calculating Humanitarian Response Capacity.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2013
- Bhatia, Anand and Brittany G. Johnson. “Increasing Access to Medicines in the Private Sector in Zambia and Zimbabwe.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2013.
- Gralla, Erica. “Human and Modeling Approaches for Humanitarian Transportation Planning.” Doctoral Thesis, MIT, May 2012.
- Krishnamurthy, Prashanth and Amit Prasad. “Inventory Strategies for Patented and Generic Products for a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2012.
- Knight, Ariahna N. “Creating a Framework for a Humanitarian Response Capacity Index.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2012.
- Alexander, Scott C. “Supply Chain Strategy in Post-Earthquake Haiti.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2011.
- Kim, Sujin and Javed Singha. “WFP Supply Chain Capacity in Ethiopia: An Analysis of its Sufficiency, Constraints & Impact.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2010.
- Heberley, Christine and Matthew Hoover. “Managing Growth of a Non-Profit Healthcare Supply Chain in Haiti.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2010.
- Chander, Vidya and Lauren Shear. “Humanitarian Aid in Less Secure Regions: An Analysis of World Food Programme Operations in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2009.
- Malaver, Gina and Colin Regnier. “Structuring Strategic Decisions Through the Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Case Study in the Selection of Warehouse Location for WFP in Ethiopia.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2009.
- Shah, Jeet N. and Trevor N. Thomas. “Costs of Multiplicity in Public Health Supply Chains in Burundi.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2009.
- Lai, Chiamin and Michael Laverty. “Improving Global Health Impact through Tailored Supply Chains: A Case Study of Ghana.” Master of Engineering Thesis, Zaragoza Logistics Center, May 2008.
- González, Rafael and Siddharth Srivastava. “Price Sensitivity in Global Supply Chains.” Master of Engineering Thesis, Zaragoza Logistics Center, May 2007.
- Walsh, Kathleen. “Shelter Procurement Strategies for Humanitarian Organizations: Global vs. Local.” Master of Engineering Thesis, Zaragoza Logistics Center, May 2007.
- Zayas-Ortiz, Zarina. “The Emerging Paradigm Shift Within Humanitarian Logistics: An Examination of the Alternatives for Vehicle Sourcing Strategy and Fleet Management.” Master of Engineering Thesis, Zaragoza Logistics Center, May 2007.
- Appling, William. “Making the Business Case for Technology in the Humanitarian Relief Sector.” Master of Engineering Thesis, Zaragoza Logistics Center, May 2006.
- Russell, Tim. “The Humanitarian Relief Supply Chain: Analysis of the 2004 South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami.” Master of Engineering Thesis, MIT, May 2005.