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Operations Research & Analytics are proven scientific mathematical processes that enable organizations to turn complex challenges into substantial opportunities by transforming data into information, and information into insights that save lives, save money and solve problems.

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Surviving in Global Online Labor Markets for IT Services: A Geo-Economic Analysis
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Helping Merchants to Assess the Profitability of Deal-of-the-Day Promotions
Scheduling with Testing
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Scheduling with Testing
Decision Analysis
Partnership Dissolution: Information and Efficiency
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The Cash Flow Advantages of 3PLs as Supply Chain Orchestrators

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    Fighting the terrorist threat online: New research can identify extremists online, even before they post dangerous content

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    September 10, 2018

    Study of Syrian War yields the creation of new predictive model for attrition dynamics in multilateral war

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    September 6, 2018

    Innovative kidney matching process can improve success rates of kidney transplants

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    Reimagining bike sharing: Cornell researchers develop smoother bike transport

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    Even with the latest innovations in kidney exchange, most planned transplants cannot actually be carried out: A new study introduces an approach th...

  • Is television advertising for health insurance worth the expense? A new study says, ‘maybe not’
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    Is television advertising for health insurance worth the expense? A new study says, ‘maybe not’

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    Ankle bracelets connected to the cloud are giving farmers a wealth of data about their cows

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  • 2019 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics focuses on improving water optimization in corn
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    2019 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics focuses on improving water optimization in corn

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  • Census Bureau Appoints New Leader and Members to Census Scientific Advisory Committee
    August 15, 2018

    Census Bureau Appoints New Leader and Members to Census Scientific Advisory Committee

    United States Census Bureau
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    August 1, 2018

    How beer revolutionized math - and just might save humanity

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The Swedish Exhibition & Congress Center Gothenburg,
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Surviving in Global Online Labor Markets for IT Services: A Geo-Economic Analysis
Information Systems Research
Surviving in Global Online Labor Markets for IT Services: A Geo-Economic Analysis
Helping Merchants to Assess the Profitability of Deal-of-the-Day Promotions
Interfaces
Helping Merchants to Assess the Profitability of Deal-of-the-Day Promotions
Scheduling with Testing
Management Science
Scheduling with Testing
Decision Analysis
Partnership Dissolution: Information and Efficiency
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
The Cash Flow Advantages of 3PLs as Supply Chain Orchestrators

O.R. & Analytics in the News

Read the latest news and information

  • Fighting the terrorist threat online: New research can identify extremists online, even before they post dangerous content
    September 12, 2018

    Fighting the terrorist threat online: New research can identify extremists online, even before they post dangerous content

  • Study of Syrian War yields the creation of new predictive model for attrition dynamics in multilateral war
    September 10, 2018

    Study of Syrian War yields the creation of new predictive model for attrition dynamics in multilateral war

  • Innovative kidney matching process can improve success rates of kidney transplants
    September 6, 2018

    Innovative kidney matching process can improve success rates of kidney transplants

    News Medical
  • Reimagining bike sharing: Cornell researchers develop smoother bike transport
    September 5, 2018

    Reimagining bike sharing: Cornell researchers develop smoother bike transport

    The Cornell Daily Sun
  • Even with the latest innovations in kidney exchange, most planned transplants cannot actually be carried out: A new study introduces an approach th...
    September 5, 2018

    Even with the latest innovations in kidney exchange, most planned transplants cannot actually be carried out: A new study introduces an approach th...

  • Is television advertising for health insurance worth the expense? A new study says, ‘maybe not’
    September 4, 2018

    Is television advertising for health insurance worth the expense? A new study says, ‘maybe not’

  • Ankle bracelets connected to the cloud are giving farmers a wealth of data about their cows
    August 29, 2018

    Ankle bracelets connected to the cloud are giving farmers a wealth of data about their cows

    CNBC
  • 2019 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics focuses on improving water optimization in corn
    August 27, 2018

    2019 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics focuses on improving water optimization in corn

    Syngenta
  • Census Bureau Appoints New Leader and Members to Census Scientific Advisory Committee
    August 15, 2018

    Census Bureau Appoints New Leader and Members to Census Scientific Advisory Committee

    United States Census Bureau
  • How beer revolutionized math - and just might save humanity
    August 1, 2018

    How beer revolutionized math - and just might save humanity

    Ag Funder News

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