Gloria Urrea

Gloria Urrea
University of Colorado Boulder | CUB · Leeds School of Business

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Gloria Urrea is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. Previously, she held a position as visiting scholar at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Università della Svizzera italiana (University of Lugano), Switzerland. She also holds a Master’s in Economics with major in Management, and another Master’s in Humanitarian Logistics and Management. Gloria studies humanitarian operations and has collaborated in applied projects with UNICEF and the Red Cross Movement. Gloria also worked for several years in the private sector, both as an entrepreneur and for a multinational company.

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Publications (21)
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Maintaining a high service level with customers involves a fundamental tradeoff between investing in inventory and investing in expediting the shipping of the additional units needed to achieve that service level. We use a multi-method approach to show how and when ordering decisions are influenced by different levels of expediting costs and target...
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Problem definition: Charities face tension when deciding whether to earmark donations, that is, allow donors to restrict the use of their donations for a specific purpose. Research shows that earmarking decreases operational performance because it limits charities’ flexibility to use donations. However, there is also a common belief that earmarking...
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Business models designed to serve those at the “base of the pyramid” are an effective means to create employment and improve quality of life. However, the effect that poverty has on the performance of such businesses is not well‐understood. We address this gap through the context of “mobile money,” an electronic currency ecosystem designed as a sec...
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Online volunteering platforms allow humanitarian organizations (HOs) to recruit volunteers to work remotely on projects of varying urgency. While removing time and space constraints enables HOs to scale up their volunteer force, HOs must manage greater heterogeneity in volunteers' experience. We investigate empirically how volunteers' experience im...
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We study volunteer management at a charity storehouse operated by a large faith‐based organization. The storehouse runs entirely on volunteer efforts. We investigate the role of volunteer experience and storehouse congestion in the preparation of orders using a multi‐method approach. First, we conduct a field study to explore these relationships an...
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Online crowdfunding has emerged as a powerful tool to raise funds for emergency response. Crowdfunding campaigns can use two transparency tools to attract donors: updates and certification. Updates are additional messages that the organizer issues after launching the campaign and are a form of operational transparency when they communicate the camp...
Chapter
Taking an operations management perspective, we investigate private (i.e. individual) donations of cash, time and in-kind items to humanitarian organizations. First, we examine private donors’ incentives to donate and briefly integrate the existing literature on private donations into the disaster management cycle framework. Second, we review the r...
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Weather-related hazards, which are expected to increase in frequency and severity as a result of climate change, wreak havoc on vulnerable populations around the globe, and in developing countries in particular. This places a great demand on the humanitarian system, requiring humanitarian actors to work differently—now and in the future. In this ch...
Book
This book brings together research in humanitarian operations, behavioral operations and dynamic simulation. Part I outlines the main characteristics and strategic challenges of humanitarian organizations in preparedness, knowledge management, climate change and issues related to refugees and social inclusion. Part II gives an introduction to behav...
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Online crowdfunding has emerged as a powerful tool to raise funds for emergency response. Crowdfunding campaigns can use two transparency tools to attract donors: updates and certification. Updates are additional messages that the organizer issues after launching the campaign and are a form of operational transparency when they communicate the camp...
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Considerando un problema inicial, burbujas de demanda y órdenes fantasmas en cadenas de abastecimiento, el objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo las personas, haciendo las veces de clientes intermedios, toman decisiones de pedidos bajo condiciones inciertas de la demanda final, usando un modelo de dinámica de sistemas y economía experimental. E...

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