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The INFORMS Analytics+ Conference showcased how companies are turning advanced analytics and AI into measurable operational results

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Museums take this educational role seriously, and many institutions understand the need to sustain and broaden their appeal. “They used to be these big ivory towers of knowledge and history and thought and art,” said Hilary Knight, director of Change& in London and former director of digital at Tate. “Museums themselves are changing their role to be centers for discussion and encounter and to be much more participatory.”

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'Ghost ships' are vessels that disappear from public tracking systems, their location manipulated or their digital record misleading. An estimated 65% of outbound tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz operate in dark mode, reducing visibility and increasing supply chain uncertainty. Misinformation in vessel tracking can cause manufacturing delays, compliance risks and financial losses. Layered verification processes, combining AIS data with other sources and escalation triggers for handling uncertain shipments, can help mitigate risk.

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New Analytics Tools Detect and Disrupt Sex Trafficking Activities

New Analytics Tools Detect and Disrupt Sex Trafficking Activities

News Release, January 9, 2023

BALTIMORE, MD, January 9, 2023 – Groundbreaking modeling detailed in new research in the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics is being credited with helping lead to the arrest of dozens of suspects in human trafficking rings in Alabama.

Decision Science Digest: January 9, 2023

Decision Science Digest: January 9, 2023

News Release, January 9, 2023
  • Increasing Dating Site Matches is in the Hands of Women, According to New Research (INFORMS journal Information Systems Research)
  • The Role of Health Competition Leaderboards in Successful Use of Wearable Technology (INFORMS journal Management Science)
  • Getting the Job and Keeping the Job: The Role of Profile Pictures (INFORMS journal Marketing Science)
  • The Impact of Chatbots on Customer Service: Does their Attitude Make a Difference? (INFORMS journal Information Systems Research)
Cherry-picking profitable patients: New research identifies unintended consequences for some Medicare patients

Cherry-picking profitable patients: New research identifies unintended consequences for some Medicare patients

Singapore Management University, January 6, 2023

A new research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management finds that Medicare Advantage (MA), the largest healthcare capitation program in the U.S., unintentionally incentivises health plans to cherry-pick profitable patients from traditional Medicare (TM). The study, “Can Big Data Cure Risk Selection in Healthcare Capitation Program? A Game Theoretical Analysis,” shows that even if the current MA risk adjustment design became informationally perfect through increased availability of big data, incentives would continue to persist for risk selection, primarily because of the way the current risk adjustment model is designed. Co-author SMU Assistant Professor of Operations Management Zhaowei She said, “No generic risk adjustment algorithm can solve the strategic prediction problem in risk adjustment without explicitly taking into account the underlying mechanism in healthcare capitation programs.” The study calls for practitioners and policymakers to change their views of seeing risk adjustment as a pure statistical and machine learning problem and to look more comprehensively at the human impact.

Understanding Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Understanding Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Medium, January 6, 2023

Since the onset of the pandemic, we have all learned just how crucial supply chains are in our economy and daily lives; even more so, have we all learned how important pharmaceutical supply chains are, especially when considering the mechanisms of disease spread. Supply chains in the pharmaceutical industry are extremely complicated due to all the different entities involved in decision-making, including actors specific to the industry: regulatory organizations, insurance companies, and GPOs. This is what a recently awarded Northeastern University NSF grant project sets out to investigate.

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