BALTIMORE, MD, April 30, 2025 – As droughts worsen and water shortages hit communities worldwide, a new study in the INFORMS journal Decision Analysis has uncovered a smarter way to get people to save water – without breaking the bank.
Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.
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CATONSVILLE, MD, February 6, 2020 – Product reviews and ratings have a strong impact on consumer consideration. In restaurant reviews, new research in the INFORMS journal Information Systems Research shows that location bias, based on the popularity difference between the reviewer’s hometown and the distance to their destination, can affect a reviewers online rating by as much as 11%.
According to research from the Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business, opening more supermarkets could see less food being spoiled as people purchase food more frequently in smaller quantities.
Recently I flew to D.C. to visit my family and had to get up at 4:30 a.m. to make my flight in Manchester because the next flight was way too late. Between yawns, I muttered deprecations about American Airlines all day.
It’s considered common knowledge that book reviews are a big compontent of successful marketing for an author. But a new study just added a wrinkle: The research shows that combining ebook reviews with a preview of the book itself makes viewers meaningfully more likely to buy a copy than either the review or the preview by itself.
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