Suzanne de Treville

Suzanne de Treville is Emeritus Professor of Operations Management at the University of Lausanne. Professor de Treville has pioneered the application of quantitative finance methods to valuing supply-chain responsiveness. She created OpLab to facilitate the implementation of these research insights and has also produced tools for managers and policymakers.

Professor de Treville uses tools from quantitative finance to value the options created by supply-chain resilience or responsiveness. Such tools allow decision-makers to incorporate resilience and responsiveness into supply-chain decision-making. The cost-differential frontier she has created answers the question of how much a company should be willing to pay to design a supply chain to make it possible to postpone a decision. Because the real options created by postponement are surprisingly valuable, the US Department of Commerce has featured the Cost-Differential Frontier tool on its website since 2014. She also works to develop other decision tools to support managers in creating portfolios that balance the time-sensitivity of products, and competitive games that allow decision-makers to gain skills in incorporating this option value into their decisions in a realistic and safe environment.

• Portfolio Management and Asset Classes
  • Options and Other Derivatives
• Frontier Topics
  • Operations Research and Decision Theory
  • Sustainable Finance