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Fake Hermès Birkin bags and other counterfeit luxury goods are popular not only with people on a budget, but also with those with deeper pockets, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the National University of Singapore analyzed millions of counterfeit purchases by American consumers from more than 24,000 U.S. zip codes on a major cross-border, e-commerce platform. They found that both lower- and higher-income individuals are “significantly more likely” to buy fake luxury items than middle-income consumers, according to a press release by INFORMS on Monday.
A machine learning program that identified patients overdue for colorectal cancer screening helped increase screening rates and was associated with significantly lower mortality, according to new research published in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
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Regardless of work location, it is critical for organizations to be transparent about performance metrics and keep big-picture goals in mind.
Three years since an Australian Minister last stepped foot in Beijing, Penny Wong is on her way to meet with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
The backdrop to the visit is thawing relations between the two countries and increasingly strained global supply chains.
Guest: Tinglong Dai is a Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at Johns Hopkins University
The onus is on companies to exercise better due diligence, focusing on high-risk areas, avoiding shady recruiters, improving supply chain visibility and using tech to monitor and authenticate.
Technology companies are shedding jobs at disturbing rates. Those with experience in computing are being laid off, sometimes with little warning. Freshly minted computer science graduates are facing employment headwinds not seen for well over a decade. Is this the next dot-com bubble burst, which could send the economy spiraling downward to new lows?
Transportation Security Administration officers had intercepted 6,301 guns as of mid-December, the agency said.

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