Research

Peer-reviewed

Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca (2021). Can Brands Claim Ignorance? Unauthorized Subcontracting in Apparel Supply Chains. Management Science, 67(4):2010-2028.

Felipe Caro, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca (2023). Believing in Analytics: Managers’ Adherence to Price Recommendations from a DSS. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25(2):524-542.

Gemma Berenguer, Natalia Costas Lorenzo, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca (2024). The State of Supplier Diversity Initiatives by Large Corporations: The New Sustainable Supply Chain? Production and Operations Management, 34(3):541-551.

Erin McKie, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Vishal Agrawal (2025). The Role of Information, Rewards, and Convenience in Take-Back Programs for Clothing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, online first.

Under review

Vibhuti Dhingra, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca. Do Penalties Promote Responsible Operations? Evidence from the U.S. Mining industry. Major revision at Management Science.

Christoph Ungemach, Vivek Astvansh, Suneal Bedi, Christian Blanco, Dinesh Puranam, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Tamara Sheldon, Sara Constantino, Tamar Markov, Shelie Miller, Cem Ozturk, David Reibstein, David Hardisty. The Role of Marketing Research in Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Consumption and Production: Current and Future Directions. Revise and resubmit at Journal of Retailing.

Work in progress

Vishal Agrawal, Ekaterina Astashkina, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca. The Impact of Variety on the Environmental and Economic Performance of a Clothes Rental Business Model. In preparation for submission.

For practitioners

Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca (2021). Four Myths about Unauthorized Subcontracting. MIT Sloan Management Review, 63(1):41-45.

Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Felipe Caro, Leonard Lane (2022). Mend your Supply Chain to Prevent a Brand Disaster. (Spanish: Remienda tu cadena de suministro y evita que se desgaste tu marca.) IESE Insight 160, plus video (also in Spanish).

Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Felipe Caro (2023). How to Get Managers to Heed Algorithm-Based Recommendations. (Spanish: Escucha las recomendaciones basadas en algoritmos.) IESE Insight, online.

Gemma Berenguer, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca (2024). La diversidad se abre camino en las cadenas de suministro. Harvard Deusto Business Review, 345.

Research awards

Winner, POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Award, 2018.

Winner, POMS College of Behavior in Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competition, 2019.

Finalist, LERA Competitive Papers, 2020 (withdrawn).

Winner, MSOM Responsible Research Award, 2023.

Finalist, Harvard Deusto Business Review Awards (ESG category), 2024.

Research funding

UCLA Anderson Doctoral Fellowship, 2014 to 2018.

UCLA Easton Center Summer Doctoral Fellows Program, 2015 and 2017.

Juan de la Cierva-Formación Grant. Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020.

  • Reference: SFJC1900I042215XV0.
  • Title: Consumer Behavior Towards Sustainability and Social Responsibility in Retail.
  • Supervisor: Victor Martínez-de-Albéniz.
  • Period: 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2022.
  • Amount: 50,000€.

Proyectos I+D+i 2020. Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020.

  • Reference: PID2020-116135GB-I00.
  • Title: Data-driven Competitive Advantage: the Information Edge in Operations Management.
  • PIs: Victor Martínez-de-Albéniz and Mihalis Markakis.
  • Period: 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2024.
  • Amount: 74,197.20€.

Social Trends Institute Grants.

  • Title: Crossovers Between Sustainability Dimensions of Fashion Products: from Consumers’ Perceptions to Reality.
  • Amount: 38,000€.

Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2024. Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2024-2027.

  • Reference: PID2024-160130NB-I00.
  • Title: Supply Chain Diversity: from Goals to Reality.
  • PIs: Gemma Berenguer and Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca.
  • Period: 9/1/2025 – 8/31/2027.
  • Amount: 87,500€.

Out-of-field papers (pre-PhD)

Vicent J. Ribas, Jesús Caballero López, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Juan Carlos Ruiz-Rodríguez, Adolfo RuizSanmartín, Jordi Rello, and Alfredo Vellido (2011). On the Use of Graphical Models to Study ICU Outcome Prediction in Septic Patients Treated with Statins. In International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, pp. 98-111. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Vicent J. Ribas Ripoll, Anna Wojdel, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Juan C. Ruiz-Rodríguez, Adolf Ruiz-Sanmartín, Miriam de Nadal, Enrique Romero, and Alfredo Vellido (2014). Continuous Blood Pressure Assessment from a Photoplethysmographic Signal with Deep Belief Networks. The FASEB Journal 28, 1:LB674.

Timothy G. Myers, Vicent Ribas Ripoll, Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, Sarah L. Mitchell, and Mark J. McGuinness (2017). Modelling the Cardiovascular System for Assessing the Blood Pressure Curve. Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies 8, (1):2.