Shany Azaria

Postdoctoral Fellow

Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

I'm a Postdoctoral fellow at the Operations Management and Statistics department, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

My research focuses on congested systems by exploring its implications on operational performance and examining mechanisms to alleviate it. In recent years I have spent most of my time examining the court system as a fertile ground for congested systems' research and a channel for social impact by improving access to justice.

I earned a PhD, an MBA and a BA in Economics from Tel-Aviv University. Prior to academia, I worked for over a decade in a management consulting firm, forming and leading improvement processes in large-scale international organizations.

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Submitted Papers

Publications

Azaria, S., Ronen, B., & Shamir, N., (2023). Alleviating Court Congestion: The Case of the Jerusalem District Court, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, Articles in Advance. [link]

Azaria, S., Ronen, B., & Shamir, N., (2023). Justice in Time: A Theory of Constraints Approach, Journal of Operations Management, 69(7), 1202–1208. [link]

Azaria, S., Ronen, B., & Shamir, N., (2023). Manufacturing Justice: The Value of Looking at the Legal System through Operations Management Eyes, Innovations in Management, 12 , 115-126 (Hebrew). [link]

Research in Progress

From Docket to Data: Unpacking Judicial Congestion Using Process- and Queue-Mining (with Alexander C., Baron O., Krass D. and Senderovich A.)

Consequences of Long Lead Time –
Empirical Evidence of Adverse Effects of Delay in Court Systems (with Shamir, N.)

Grants and Awards

EURO WISDOM YoungWomen4OR Cohort (2024)

Tel Aviv University Rector's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2023)

Tel Aviv University President's fellowship for women postdoctoral scholars (2023-2024)

Theory of Constraints Body of Knowledge (2023)

The paper "Justice in time: A theory of constraints approach" was added to the TOCICO BOK

Raya Strauss Center for Family Businesses Research Grant (2017)

"Identifying the Generic Core Problems in Family Businesses" (with Ronen, B. and Weiss, D.)

Elrov Real Estate Institute Research Grant (2014)

"The Influence of Real Estate Bonds on the Israeli Real Estate Market" (with Ronen, B. and Lieber, Z.)

Goldratt Foundation New Knowledge Award (2012)

Best knowledge development in the Theory of Constraints (TOC) for the presentation

"Justice in Time: Applying TOC to Law Courts Systems" (with Ronen, B. and Pass, S.)

Teaching& Conference Presenttions

Teaching Experience

Coller School of Management, Tel-Aviv University

Teaching Assistant and Instructor (Undergraduate, Graduate and Executive programs)

Statistics (intro and advanced)
Useful Models in Operations Research
Introduction to Value Creation
Leading the Strategic Change Process
New Ventures Creation

SDA-Bocconi School of Management, Milano, Italy

Teaching Assistant (Graduate program)

Advanced Methods in Increasing Shareholders’ Value

Conference Presentations

Consequences of Long Lead Time – Evidence from the Israeli Court System

33rd Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Orlando, Florida, May 2023

Alleviating Court Congestion: The Case of the Jerusalem District Court

33rd Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), May 2023

Justice in Time: Applying Operations Theory to Court Systems

31st Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), online, April 2021
30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO), Dublin, Ireland, June 2019
ORSIS annual meeting, Shefayim, Israel, May 2019
ORSIS annual meeting, Beer-Sheva, Israel, May 2018

Resolving the Real Estate Price Crisis: the TOC Way (Keynote panel discussion)

15th annual worldwide TOCICO conference, Berlin, Germany, July 2017