CURRENT APPOINTMENT
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering, August 2003 – present

EDUCATION
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Ph.D.	Managerial Science and Applied Economics, May 2003 Department of Operations and Information Management
M.A.	Operations and Information Management, May 2001

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

S.M.	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, September 1997
S.M.	Technology and Policy, September 1997

Technical University Aachen / Imperial College London

Engineer

Electrical Engineering, May 1995

Ecole Centrale Paris

Ingénieur

Industrial Engineering, June 1994 Top Industrial Managers for Europe (TIME) Fellow

NON-DEGREE PROGRAMS

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria Young Scientists Summer Program, Dynamic Systems Group, Research in Nonlinear Optimal Control Theory: Nominated for IIASA’s Peccei Award for Outstanding Performance	2001
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France Summer Program (‘The European Union Today and Tomorrow’)	1996
Technical University Aachen, Germany Studies in Mathematics with a focus on Functional Analysis	1989-1994

HONORS & AWARDS

INFORMS Young Researcher Roundtable	2005
David T. Morgenthaler II Faculty Scholar, Stanford School of Engineering	2003-2005
Wharton Nominee for the ICIS Doctoral Consortium in Barcelona, Spain	2002
Research Fellow
- Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center	2002-2003
- Reginald H. Jones Center for Management Policy, Strategy and Organization	2002
Nominated for Best Completed Research Paper Award International Conference on Information Systems, New Orleans, LA	2001
Nominated for IIASA’s Peccei and Mikhalevich Awards for Outstanding Performance Young Scientists Summer Program, Intern. Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria	2001
Doctoral Fellowship, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	1999-2003
Dissertation Fellowship, The Boston Consulting Group	1999-2002
DAAD National Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service	1995-1997
ERASMUS Scholarship, European Union	1994-1995
Full Scholarship, German-French Foundation	1991-1993
TIME+ Fellowship, Ecole Centrale Paris	1991-1993

INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT

The Boston Consulting Group, Munich Office: Senior Consultant	1998-2002
MIT Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory, Cambridge, MA: Research Assistant	1997
Unilever European Summer Program, Milan/Gouda/Rotterdam	1993
Rhein-Nadel Automation, Aachen	1989

PAPERS

(a) Journal Articles


1. Weber, T.A., “An Infinite-Horizon Maximum Principle with Bounds on the Adjoint Variable,”
   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 2006, pp. 229—241.
2. Weber, T.A., “Infinite-Horizon Optimal Advertising in a Market for Durable Goods,” Optimal
   Control Applications and Methods, Vol. 26, No. 6, November-December 2005, pp. 307—336.
3. Weber, T.A., Croson, D.C., “Selling Less Information for More: Garbling with Benefits,”
   Economics Letters, Vol. 83, No. 2, May 2004, pp. 165—171.
4. Weber, T.A., “An Exact Relation Between Willingness To Pay and Willingness To Accept,”
   Economics Letters, Vol. 80, No. 3, September 2003, pp. 311—315.
5. Weber, T.A., “Delayed Multiattribute Product Differentiation,” Decision Support Systems,
   Vol. 44, No. 2, January 2008, pp. 447—468.
6. Weber, T.A., Zheng, E., “A Model of Search Intermediaries and Paid Referrals,” Information
   Systems Research, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 414—436.
7. Strulovici, B.H., Weber, T.A., “Monotone Comparative Statics: Geometric Approach,” Journal of
   Optimization Theory and Applications, In press, Vol. 137, No. 1, April 2008.
8. Weber, T.A., Bapna, A., “Bayesian Incentive Compatible Parametrization of Mechanisms,”
   Journal of Mathematical Economics, Vol. 44, No. 3-4, February 2008, pp. 394—403.

   (b) Refereed Conference Proceedings

9. Weber, T.A., “The Value of Shared Information Services,” Proceedings of the 23rd International
   Conference on Information Systems, Barcelona, Spain, December 2002, pp. 209—224.
10. Weber, T.A., “Mixed Versioning of Information Goods under Incomplete Information,”
    Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Systems, New Orleans, LA,
    December 2001, pp. 81—83 (extended abstract only). Nominated for the Best Completed
    Research Paper Award.
11. Weber, T.A., Xiong, H., “Efficient Contract Design in Multi-Principal Multi-Agent Supply
    Chains,” Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations
    Management Society (POMS), Dallas, TX, May 2007.

    (c) Articles in Revision

12. “Efficient Contract Design in Multi-Principal Multi-Agent Supply Chains” (with H. Xiong), in revision.
13. “Screening with Externalities,” in revision.
14. “Efficient Dynamic Allocation with Uncertain Valuations” (with A. Bapna), in revision.

    (d) Book Chapters

15. “Price Theory in Economics” in: Özer, Ö., Philips, R. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook on Pricing
    Management (to be published in 2009).

    (e) Books

16. “Applied Information Economics” Oxford University Press (in preparation).

    (f) Articles under Review

17. “Fair Welfare Maximization” (with A. Goel and A. Meyerson), under review
18. “Efficient Allocation of Divisible Goods,” (with A. Bapna), under review.
19. “Additive Envelopes of Continuous Functions,” (with B. Strulovici), under review.
20. “Generalized Monotone Comparative Statics” (with B. Strulovici), under review.
21. “Constructing Efficient Equilibria in Games Played Through Agents,” (with B. Strulovici), under review. .
22. “Simple Methods for Evaluating and Comparing Binary Experiments,” under review.
    

GRANTS

1. “Credit Collections Optimization”, American Express (Lead-PI: Yinyu Ye), $30,000, 2005-06. $275,000, 2006-07.
2. “Economic Incentives Model for the California Water Market,” Woods Institute for the
   Environment, Stanford University, $120,000, 2005-2007. Lead-PI (co-PI: David Freyberg,
   Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University).
3. “Optimal Screening and Experimentation,” Stanford Lillie Fund, 2004-2005.
4. Stanford Presidential Faculty Research Grant, 2004.
   

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS / INVITED TALKS

1. “Strategic Information Transmission Through Agents: An Optimal Dynamic Reward Program,”
   Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Montréal, Canada, December 2007.
2. “Multiattribute Screening,” 2007 European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Budapest,
   Hungary, August 2007.
3. “Dynamic Allocation of Water Resources with Storage and Two-Sided Uncertainty: The Case
   of Southern California,” 2007 Meeting of the American Economic Association, Chicago, IL,
   January 2007.
4. “Pricing and Inventory Control with Two-Sided Uncertainty,“ INFORMS Annual Meeting,
   Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006; 18th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations
   Management Society (POMS), Dallas, TX, May 2007.
5. “Efficient Allocation of Online Advertising Resources,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 2006; 2006 Workshop of Information Systems and Economics (WISE), in Chicago, IL; 20th Anniversary Symposium on Competitive Strategy, Economics, and
   Information Systems at the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
   Waikoloa, Big Island, HI, January 2007.
6. “Efficient Dynamic Allocation with Uncertain Valuations,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, San
   Francisco, CA, November 13, 2005; Workshop on Information Systems and Economics
   (WISE), Irvine, CA, December 10, 2005; NSF/NBER Decentralization Conference, Paris,
   France, April 7, 2006; Econometric Society European Meetings, Vienna, Austria, August 27,
   2006.
7. “Fair Welfare Maximization,” 9th World Congress of the Econometric Society (held every three years), University College, London, UK, August 2005. IEOR Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, CA, April 26, 2004.
8. “Efficient Contract Design in Multi-Principal Multi-Agent Supply Chains,” Stanford Technology Ventures Program Seminar, January 18, 2005; INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006; 18th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management
   Society (POMS), Dallas, TX, May 2007.
9. “Screening with Externalities,” Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE),
   University of Maryland, College Park, ML, December 12, 2004; Dynamic Systems Seminar,
   International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, September, 2005;
   European Economic Association Congress, Vienna, Austria, August 27, 2006; 2007
   NSF/CEME Decentralization Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, April 2007.
10. “Multiattribute Nonlinear Pricing of Network Goods,” INFORMS Annual Meeting, Denver, CO,
    October 26, 2004.
11. “Interdependent Security Investments: Private Choice and Public Policy,” INFORMS Annual
    Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 21, 2003.
12. “The Time Value of Imperfect Information,” VIIIth Spring Meeting of Young Economists, April 5, 2003, Leuven, Belgium.
13. “The Value of Shared Information Services,” 23rd International Conference on Information
    Systems (ICIS), Barcelona, Spain, December 16, 2002; Journal of AIS Sponsored Theory
    Development Workshop (following ICIS), December 18, 2002.
14. “A Model of Search Intermediaries and Paid Referrals,” Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Barcelona, Spain, December 14, 2002; INFORMS Annual Meeting,
    Pittsburgh, PA, November 2006.
15. “Delayed Multiattribute Product Differentiation,” Seminar, Department of Operations and
    Information Management, Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania, October 30, 2002;
    INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, November 19, 2002.
16. “The Value of Information in Portfolio Investment Decisions,” Conference on Economic Design: Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Design, New York City, July 8, 2002.
17. “Mixed Versioning of Information Goods Under Uncertainty,” 22nd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), New Orleans, LA, December 17, 2001.
18. “Can Optimal Receding-Horizon Decision Making Be Unstable?” INFORMS Annual Meeting,
    Miami Beach, FL, November 7, 2001.
19. “Infinite-Horizon Optimal Control in Economics: A Nonlinear and Nonconvex Application in
    Marketing,” Seminar, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts
    Institute of Technology, November 1, 2001.
20. “Moving-Horizon Myopia and Instability in Decision Making,” Seminar, Department of
    Operations and Information Management, Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania, October 24,
    2001.
21. “Bounded Rationality and Instability in Decision Making: A Receding-Horizon Control
    Approach,” Dynamic Systems Seminar & Midsummer Workshop of the Young Scientists
    Summer Program, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria,
    July 24 and August 10, 2001.
22. “Control Theory in Management Consulting,” Corporate Development Practice Group Meeting,
    The Boston Consulting Group, Yachthotel Chiemsee, Germany, July 18, 1998.
    

TEACHING

Stanford University

2003-2006

	“MS&E 241 Economic Analysis” (Masters Level)
	“MS&E 341 Advanced Economic Analysis” (Doctoral Level)
	“MS&E 344 Applied Information Economics” (Doctoral Level)
	“E60 Engineering Economy” (Undergraduate Engineering Fundamental)
	Academic Co-Director, SAFEA Summer Program in Public Policy, Stanford Center for Professional Development (June-August 2006)

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1999-2003

	Instructor “OPIM 102 Decision Processes,” for Undergraduates, Spring 2003
	Head Teaching Assistant “OPIM 210 Management Information Systems,” (Undergraduate Core) “WEMBA OPIM 899 Advanced Topics in Information Systems” (Executive MBA) “OPIM 469/669 Advanced Topics in Information Systems” (Undergraduate/MBA) “OPIM 666/667 Information: Industry, Structure, and Competitive Strategy” (MBA)

INVENTIONS

DOCTORAL STUDENTS