Edward C. Rosenthal

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Edward C. Rosenthal

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Statistical Science

      • Professor

      • Chair

Biography

Edward Rosenthal came to Temple after receiving his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He has taught courses in production and operations management, game theory, and logistics and supply chain management at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as in the Honors and Executive MBA programs.

Dr. Rosenthal is a recipient of the Great Teacher Award and the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Rosenthal’s research interests are in cooperative game theory, noncooperative game theory and mechanism design, logistics, and behavioral decision theory. His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including Journal of Public Economics, Games and Economic Behavior, European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Sciences and International Journal of Game Theory. He is the author of The Era of Choice: The Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of Contemporary Life (MIT Press 2005) and also The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Game Theory (Alpha/Penguin, 2011).

Research Interests

  • Game theory
  • Logistics
  • Supply chain management

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

MSOM 3901

Honors Operations Management

Undergraduate

BA 9090

Special Topics in Business Administration

Graduate

MSOM 5001

Operations Management

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • (2017). Cooperative Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Private Information: Two Transportation Applications.

  • Rosenthal, E. & Weiss, H. (2017). A data envelopment analysis approach for ranking journals. Omega (United Kingdom), 70, 135-147. doi: 10.1016/j.omega.2016.09.006.

  • Rosenthal, E. (2017). A cooperative game approach to cost allocation in a rapid-transit network. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 97, 64-77. doi: 10.1016/j.trb.2016.11.014.

  • Rosenthal, E. & Eisenstein, E. (2021). A Rescheduling and Cost Sharing Mechanism for Delayed Arrivals. European Journal of Operational Research, 66, 20-28. Elsevier BV.