Professor Lawrence M. Wein

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Paul E. Holden Professor of Management Science  Address: 518 Memorial Way Stanford, CA  94305-5015 Telephone: (650) 724-1676 Fax: (650) 725-0468 E-mail: wein_lawrence@gsb.stanford.edu CV: [Pdf file] Faculty Assistant:  Malisa R. Young (650) 725-9874 · Room L218

Research Papers

View a bibliography of papers by Professor Wein and colleagues (some available to download), with selected abstracts.

Links

• GSB Faculty Page

• INFORMS Online
• Martin Enserink, "New Look at Old Data Irks Smallpox-Eradication Experts", Science, Vol. 299, 10 January 2003, p.181. [Pdf file]
• Policy Implications of an Anthrax Attack
  A lecture presented by Lawrence Wein, February 26, 2003
  Despite the fatal anthrax attack in the U.S. mail in 2001, no government response plan exists in the event of another attack. Research by Business School Professor Larry Wein and two colleagues recommends the rapid deployment of antibiotics and a series of other precautionary steps to reduce the death toll in the event of an attack. [Video File]
• Unready for Anthrax
  Washington Post Op-Ed, July 28, 2003, pg. A21[Pdf file]
• 2-Fingerprint Border ID System Called Inadequate
  According to this news story, Congressman Jim Turner (D-Tex) wrote that a study by researchers at Stanford University concluded the two-fingerprint system (instead of one that relies on all 10 prints) "is no more than 53 percent effective in matching fingerprints with poor image quality against the government's biometric terrorist watch-list"--Turner criticizes the system saying it falls far short of keeping the country secure.  Turner's letter to the Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge quotes GSB faculty member Lawrence Wein, who said his study found that at best, with a software fix, the two-finger system would properly identify only about three of four people, and that the "implications of our findings are disturbing," according to this story.
  Washington Post, Tues, 10/19/04
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43276-2004Oct18.html
• House Select Homeland Security Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security and Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism Hold Joint Hearing on Disrupting Terrorist Travel
  Testimony of Lawrence Wein [Pdf file]
• Sciencentral video on fingerprint security
• Got Toxic Milk?
  New York Times Op-Ed, May 30, 2005
  http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/opinion/30wein.html?ex=1162357200&en=6bbd4ad7194d987c&ei=5070
• Guide to Poisoning Milk Supply?
  NBC's "Today Show," June 30, 2005
  www.gsb.stanford.edu/multimedia/facultynews/weintodayshow.ram 
• Biosecurity
  NPR Talk of the Nation "Science Friday," July 1, 2005
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4726666
• Terrorist in the Milk Barn
  The Food Chain Show, #453, July 23, 2005 [Mp3 file]
• Think Inside the Box
  New York Times Op-Ed, November 28, 2005
  http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30714FB3F550C7A8EDDA80994DD404482

• Testimony California State Assembly Select Committee On Ports
  April 21, 2006 [Pdf file]

• Face Facts
  New York Times Op-Ed, October 25, 2006
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/opinion/25wein.html

• Biological and Chemical Safety Nets
  The Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, February 27, 2007
  http://online.wsj.com/public/us