Moez Hababou

I grew up in the green Tunisia in the beautiful Medina of Tunis. At the age of 22, I was awarded a B.B.A degree specializing in Finance from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales at Carthage (Tunisia). Then, I was awarded a scholarship to Canada as part of the CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) scholarship exchange program between Canada and Tunisia. I pursued my studies with an Master of Science specializing in Finance as well at Laval University (Quebec City, Canada). After completing my M.Sc. thesis under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Marc Martel , I decided to join in the efficiency analysis project that was just agreed upon between Prof. Wade D. Cook and CIBC. Currently, I am in my third year in the Ph.D. program in Administrative Studies at the Schulich School of Business at York University. My area of specialization is Management Science and my supervisor is Prof. Cook. My current reserach involves efficiency analysis in the banking industry with a particular attention to the retail side of the bank branches activity.

I have just succeeded in my Ph.D. program and I am looking forward to finish my thesis I order to finally quit university and earn big bucks.

However, if you want to have a close-up on my résumé, just go ahead.

• "A Multicriteria Approach for Selecting a Portfolio Manager" published in the special issue of INFOR on performance analysis, August 1998; co-author Jean-Marc Martel (Laval University).
• "Separating Sales and Service Efficiencies in Bank Branches" under review; co-authors Wade D. Cook and Hans J. Tuenter (York University).
• "The concept of representativeness as a technique for ranking efficient units" under review; co-authors Wade D. Cook (York University).

• Presented a paper "Separating Sales and Service Efficiencies in Bank Branches" at the CORS conference (Ottawa, May 1997) and at the INFORMS conference (Dallas, October 1997).
• Presented a paper "The concept of representativeness as a technique for ranking efficient units" at the INFORMS conferences (Montreal, April 1998 and Tel Aviv, June 1998).
• Presented a paper "A Multicriteria Approach for Selecting a Portfolio Manager" at the MOGPM conference (Quebec City, May 1998).
• Paper in review: A Multicriteria Approach for Selecting a Portfolio Manager; co-author with Prof. Jean-Marc Martel (Laval University).

I am currently working on three ongoing projects:

- Choosing factors (inputs and outputs) in DEA, what is the best technique to apply?

- Techniques for breaking the tie in the efficient set, that is how to rank efficient units, as all of them display an efficiency score of 100%

- Evaluating the efficiency of units performing more than one activity and in the particular setting where some resources are shared among these activities. We apply our approach to bank branches as we denote today a stronger emphasis on the sales part of a branch's activity. If you work by chance on any of these topics, a reciprocal exchange of ideas is more than welcome.

Schulich School of Business, #344
York University, 4700 Keele Street,
North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J1P3,
e-mail address: mhababou@bus.yorku.ca

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