UMass Boston

Supply Chain Management, Operational Risk Management, Business Analytics, Statistics

PhD, University of Minnesota

MBA, Industrial Management Institute

MS and BS, Sharif University of Technology

• Rozhin Sharifi, Razavi, H., Elahi E. (2023). Investigation of the ordering behavior of a retailer in the revenue sharing and buyback contracts considering round number bias. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services [Ranked A], 73(July). DOI Number:103361
• Shirzadeh A., Elahi E., Shirzadeh, A., Fathi, M., Khakifirooz, M. (2022). Impact of return leniency on retailers’ profit and social welfare in monopoly markets. Computers & Industrial Engineering Journal, 169.
• Shirzadeh A., Ehsan E., (2021). An Investigation of the Benefit of Optimal Refund over the Full Refund Strategy in Retail Market: A Numerical Study. Cyrus Institute of Knowledge, 6, 31-47. DOI Number:10.52212/CGBP2021-V6i1m2
• Ahmadian, M., Elahi E., Blake, R. (2021). The Behavioral Effects of Competition Intensity and Cost Structure on Competing Suppliers: An Experimental Study in the Context of the USA. International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness, 1-13.
• Ehsan Elahi, Shirzadeh Chaleshtari, A. (2022). Socially Optimal Retail Return Strategies under the Influence of Endowment Effect. Production and Operations Management: POMS Lima, Peru, December 2-4, 2021 (Virtual Edition). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG.
• Shirzadeh A., Elahi E., “IMPACT OF INFORMATION PROVISION ON OPTIMAL RETURN STRATEGIES”, Academicsera International Conference, January 2021.
• Shirzadeh A., Elahi, E., “OPTIMAL RETURN STRATEGIES UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ENDOWMENT EFFECT”, Academicsera International Conference, January 2021.
• Shirzadeh A., Elahi, E., “Product Information Strategies to Soothe E-Commerce Returns”, Reverse Logistics Magazine, Vol. 114, June 2021.
• Jahangir, M., Khorakian, A., Mortazavi, S., Elahi, E., “Risk Management Model of Iran’s Health System Transformation Plan: A Qualitative Study,” Payesh, Volume 18, Issue 4 (July - August 2019).
• Ahmadian, M., Blake, R. Ehsan Elahi, “Suppliers’ Learning: Aggregate and Individual Levelss,” NEDSI Conference Proceeding, 2018.
• Elahi, E., Blake, R. “Do Competing Suppliers Maximize Profits as Theory Suggests? An Empirical Evaluation,” In Merrill Warkentin (Ed.), Trends and Research in the Decision Sciences. Pearson
• Education, 2015. • Elahi, E., Sheikhzadeh, M., Lamba, N. A., “An Integrated Outsourcing Framework: Analyzing Boeing’s Outsourcing Program for Dreamliner (B787),” Knowledge and Process Management, 21 (1), 13-28, 2014.
• Elahi, E, R. Blake, “An Experimental Investigation of Outsourcing through Competition,” DSI Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, November 22-25, 2014.
• Elahi, E. “Outsourcing through Competition: What is the Best Competition Parameter?”
  International Journal of Production Economics, 144(1), 370-382, 2013.
• Sheikhzade, M. and E. Elahi, “Product Bundling: Impacts of Product Heterogeneity and Risk Considerations,” International Journal of Production Economics, 144(1), 209-222, 2013.
• Elahi, E., “How Risk Management Can Turn into Competitive Advantage,” Foresight, 15(2), 117- 131, 2013.
• Elahi, E., Lamba, N. A., Ramaswamy, C., “How Can We Improve the Performance of Supply Chain Contracts? An Experimental Study,” International Journal of Production Economics, 142(1), 146- 157, 2013.
• Lamba, N. A., Elahi, E., “When Strategy Does Not Match Capabilities: Lessons from the Supply Chain of Boeing 787,” To appear in Sumeet Gupta, Miti Garg (Ed.), Cases on Supply Chain and Distribution Management: Issues and Principles, IGI Global, 2012.
• Benjaafar, S., E. Elahi, and K. Donohue, “Outsourcing via Service Competition,” Management Science, 53(2), 241-259, 2007.
• Elahi, E., S. Benjaafar and K. Donohue, “Outsourcing to Non-Identical Suppliers,” Proceedings of the M&SOM Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, June 19-20, 2006.
• Elahi, E., Benjaafar, S. and K. Donohue “Inventory Competition in Make-to-Stock Systems,” Proceedings of the Fourth Aegean Conference on Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, Samos, Greece, July 1-4, 2003.

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Courses Taught

Supply Chain Management, Operational Risk Management, Service Operations Management, Managerial Decision Making, Simulation Modeling, Statistical Analysis for Managers, Mathematical Analysis for Managers