Tava Maryanne Lennon Olsen (born 1969) is a New Zealand academic specialising in

supply chain management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...

. She is currently a full professor at the

Melbourne Business School Melbourne Business School (MBS) is the graduate business school of the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The School offers an MBA program, specialist Masters programs, a doctoral program, and executive education programs. The MBS Head ...

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

Academic career

After a 1994

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titled ''Response-time approximations for multi-server polling models, with manufacturing applications'' at the

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, she worked at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and the

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...

before moving to the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

, rising to full professor. From there she moved to the

as a full professor and Deputy Dean of the

. Olsen has spoken on

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

-related infrastructure issues, including the question of whether to move the

Port of Auckland Ports of Auckland Limited (POAL), the successor to the Auckland Harbour Board, is the Auckland Council-owned company administering Auckland's commercial freight and cruise ship harbour facilities. As the company operates all of the associated fa ...

(no) and whether to introduce road tolls (yes).

Selected works

* Fry, Michael J., Roman Kapuscinski, and Tava Lennon Olsen. "Coordinating production and delivery under a (z, Z)-type vendor-managed inventory contract."

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management ''Manufacturing & Service Operations Management'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1999 that is published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. It covers analytical research about operat ...

3, no. 2 (2001): 151–173. * Wiler, Jennifer L., Richard T. Griffey, and Tava Olsen. "Review of modeling approaches for emergency department patient flow and crowding research." Academic Emergency Medicine 18, no. 12 (2011): 1371–1379. * Frater, Michael R., Tava M. Lennon, and Brian DO Anderson. "Optimally efficient estimation of the statistics of rare events in queueing networks."

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

36, no. 12 (1991): 1395–1405. * Oh, Seong-Jun, Tava Lennon Olsen, and Kimberly M. Wasserman. "Distributed power control and spreading gain allocation in CDMA data networks." In INFOCOM 2000. Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE, vol. 2, pp. 379–385. IEEE, 2000. * Katok, Elena, Tava Olsen, and Valery Pavlov. "Wholesale pricing under mild and privately known concerns for fairness."

Production and Operations Management ''Production and Operations Management'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on all topics in product and process design, operations, and supply chain management. ''Production and Operations Management'' is published by Wiley-Bla ...

23, no. 2 (2014): 285–302.

References

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* * Living people 1969 births Stanford University alumni Washington University in St. Louis faculty University of Michigan faculty Academic staff of the University of Auckland {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub