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Profile of Samer Charbaji

Samer Charbaji

Assistant Professor; Quantitative & Analytics, School of Management

Assistant Professor; , School of Management

Education Credentials: Ph.D.

Expertise: Quantitative Analysis, Behavioral Operations Management, Knowledge Worker Productivity

Joined ºÚÁϵ¼º½: 2023

Samer Charbaji received his Ph.D. in Technology and Operations from the University of Michigan-Ross School of Business. In his research, he uses novel experimental designs to study various ways of improving knowledge worker productivity. He is currently studying how a knowledge-worker’s productivity is impacted by the discretionary switching decisions they make between creative and repetitive tasks and, separately, how output constraints with subjective requirements impact the originality of a knowledge worker’s creative output. He has previously won the John Buzacott award for best behavioral paper published in the Production and Operations Management journal for his work studying how enterprise social media platform design impacts knowledge worker helping decisions and productivity.

  • “Discretionary Task Switching and Knowledge Worker Productivity,” with Roman Kapuscinski and Stephen Leider, Major Revision from Management Science.
  • “Creative Output Constraints with Subjective Requirements and Knowledge Worker Productivity,” with Roman Kapuscinski and Stephen Leider, in preparation to submit to Management Science (draft available upon request).

  • Charbaji, S., Kapuscinski, R., & Leider, S. (2025). . Production and Operations Management, 34(11), 3513–3530. (Original work published 2025)

  1. Winner of the 2026 Production and Operations Management John Buzacott Award for Best Behavioral Operations Paper
  2. Dean’s Distinguished Research Award 2024-2025 at the New York Institute of Technology 
  3. Finalist at the 2023 POMS College of Behavioral Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competition
  4. Courtade Award 2021–2022 from the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School
  5. W. Allen Spivey/Valerie and William Hall Family Fellowship for Academic Excellence, 2020–2021
  6. Third place at the 2021 INFORMS Social Media Analytics Student Paper Competition
  7. 2019 Ross Emeritus Award for Best Second Year Paper at the Michigan Ross School of Business

  • BUSI 650 Business Analytics and Decision Making
  • QANT 620 Multi-Criteria Decision Models
  • QANT 630 Operations and Supply Chain Management

Contact Information

Email: scharbaj@nyit.edu

Office: New York, NY

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