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Alessandro Arlotto

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
100 Fuqua Drive, Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708
100 Fuqua Drive, Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Alessandro Arlotto is an Associate Professor of Business Administration, Mathematics, and Statistical Science at Duke University. Alessandro holds a primary appointment in the Decision Sciences area of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and secondary appointments in the departments of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Alessandro received his Ph.D. in 2012 from the University of Pennsylvania and joined Duke University in the same year.

Alessandro’s research interests are in probability, optimization and their applications to business and economics. His research has appeared in several journals including the Annals of Applied Probability, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research, and Stochastic Processes and their Applications. Alessandro is a recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.

At Duke, Alessandro teaches the core course Probability and Statistics in the Daytime and Executive MBA programs as well as the Quantitative Business Analysis course for the Master in Management Studies. Alessandro also teaches the graduate course Stochastic Models.

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Business Administration · 2019 - Present Fuqua School of Business

Recent News Items


Published October 22, 2024
How Ballot Design Can Decide Elections

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Recent Scholarly Works


Online Demand Fulfillment Problem with Initial Inventory Placement: A Regret Analysis

Journal article Operations Research · May 1, 2026 We study a joint inventory placement and online fulfillment model. In the beginning, the inventory is distributed to different warehouses. At each subsequent period, an order arrives from one of the demand regions, and the decision maker makes an irrevocab ... Full text Cite

Dynamic Resource Allocation: The Geometry and Robustness of Constant Regret

Journal article MATHEMATICS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH · November 2025 Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


CAREER: The effects of centralized and decentralized sequential decisions on system performance

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2021

Conference on Probability Theory and Combinatorial Optimization

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2015 - 2016

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Education


University of Pennsylvania · 2012 Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania · 2009 M.A.
University of Turin (Italy) · 2007 M.S.
University of Turin (Italy) · 2004 B.S.