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Operations Research Enhances Data-Driven Ferry Operations: Molslinjen Awarded the 2024 INFORMS Edelman Award
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 15, 2024 – INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, announced it has awarded Molslinjen its 2024 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for its use of operations research (O.R.) to enhance data-driven ferry operations.

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University of South Carolina, Management Science Department Awarded the 2024 INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 15, 2024 – INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, has awarded the University of South Carolina (USC), Management Science Department, the 2024 UPS George D. Smith Prize. The award recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of operations research and analytics.

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JD.com Honored with 2024 INFORMS Prize for Leveraging Operations Research to Build a More Efficient, Responsive and Consumer-centric Supply Chain
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 15, 2024– INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, has awarded JD.com, a leading supply chain-based technology and service provider, with the 2024 INFORMS Prize, for unparalleled dedication to utilizing operations research (O.R.) and analytics in its organizational structure to ensure a more efficient, responsive, and consumer-centric supply chain.

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Why signing a noncompete agreement is bad for you - and the economy

Why signing a noncompete agreement is bad for you - and the economy

Quartz, December 20, 2017

A study recently published in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds lower rates of within-industry entrepreneurship in states with strong noncompete enforcement. Using data on about 5.5 million new firms in 30 states, the researchers found that strongly bound workers were significantly less likely to build new companies within the same industry.

Uncommon knowledge: Bros, basketball, and business economics

Uncommon knowledge: Bros, basketball, and business economics

Boston Globe, January 6, 2018

Bros don't know. In a new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science, individuals and groups of three were given general-knowledge and forecasting questions. All-male groups had worse discussion dynamics than groups with at least one woman. As a result, their judgments were more poorly calibrated than the other groups’ — and even compared to individual men or women.

When artists are depressed their art has less value, finds U.S. study

When artists are depressed their art has less value, finds U.S. study

Daily Review, January 8, 2018

We’ve all heard the story of Vincent van Gogh cutting his ear off and of Jackson Pollock’s alcoholism and depression. The struggles facing the creative “genius” are so ingrained in our culture that it has its own moniker: “tortured artists.” Some of the greatest creators of all time are synonymous with depression. But a new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that work created by artists when they are unhappy is valued less than their other works.

Where's your most-wanted prospect going? Iowa student's formula holds the answer (maybe)

Where's your most-wanted prospect going? Iowa student's formula holds the answer (maybe)

Gridiron Now, January 17, 2018

In the next three weeks, SEC fans will ponder, debate, agonize and pray over which school their most-coveted recruits will choose on National Signing Day. But a mathematical model has already made the call for all of them – sort of. The model, designed by Iowa Ph.D. candidate Kristina Bigsby, relies on social media posts and “basic biographical information” – presumably including publicly available data like hometown and school. Her work was published in the journal Decision Analysis, from INFORMS.

Beware of (dis)incentives

Beware of (dis)incentives

Cambridge Network , January 11, 2018

The ‘ratcheting’ up of bonus goals can make workforces less motivated, so managers need a clear system of communicating changes to incentives, says a new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science, co-authored by INFORMS member Francisco Brahm of Cambridge Judge Business School.

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