INFORMS has awarded Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) its 2026 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for reengineering how global cloud infrastructure is planned and delivered, applying advanced analytics and AI to orchestrate complex fulfillment decisions across its rapidly expanding data center network.
INFORMS has awarded the 2026 UPS George D. Smith Prize to the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). The award recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of O.R. and analytics.
In the rush to adopt artificial intelligence, many employers are now requiring that employees use AI tools. As you’re using AI, be intentional and selective. It’s critical that you know yourself. Research published in Management Science found that AI is most valuable for people who understand their own abilities and limitations. Assess yourself, so you can factor this into your process for incorporating AI into your work.
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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.
Researchers from the University of Waterloo conducted a study on the desirability and reality of using drone delivery for e-retailers. The study looks at the cost and effectiveness in certain population areas and locations.
CATONSVILLE, MD, February 3, 2020 – In the public interest, governments often regulate the marketing activities of certain industries like tobacco, financial services, alcohol, and gaming.
In 2014, when Ebola appeared to threaten the United States, calls for restricting travel, including limiting visas to possible travelers from infected areas, were fortunately never implemented. Now, with the surfacing of the coronavirus threat, the lessons we learned from the Ebola outbreak may be useful to reduce population risk.
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