Announcing the results of the 2026 INFORMS Board of Directors election and the new board for 2027.
INFORMS has named 12 distinguished leaders as the 2026 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the profession.
Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.
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In a new study in INFORMS journal Marketing Science, prospective customers of commercial good discriminated against femininity expressed in photos on products. The femininity "penalty" did not vary for customers that are men, women or nonbinary.
INFORMS has named Ruth J. Williams, a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Emerita at the University of California, San Diego, as the recipient of the 2026 INFORMS President’s Award.
UCLA Anderson supply chain expert Christopher Tang says the "China plus one" shift has created mostly low-skill assembly jobs in Southeast Asia, and that the region struggles to replicate Shenzhen's vertically integrated factory ecosystem. He suggests Southeast Asian nations may need to split their industrial parks: one supply chain built to Western standards and a separate one aligned with Chinese networks serving the Global South.
Defying skeptics and beating back opponents, David Ellison has harpooned his white whale in buying Warner Bros. Discovery. Now he has to prove that the $111 billion mega-merger can become a profitable entertainment powerhouse, and not just a vessel that will get sucked under by a massive whirlpool of debt.
The article highlights INFORMS's Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) credential, which validates a professional's business analytics skills and knowledge. It notes the credential requires a combination of education and analytics work experience.
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