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In this episode of the INFORMS podcast, Resoundingly Human, we explore three unique ways that operations research and analytics are being used to save lives, save money, and solve problems. Our guests include John Dickerson of the University of Maryland and Tuomas Sandholm of Carnegie Mellon University whose research on improving kidney exchange success could significantly improve the number of successful kidney transplants; Eva Lee of the Georgia Institute of Technology whose research in pediatric heart surgery has unexpectedly provided new insight to help fight America’s opioid epidemic; and Tallys Yunes of the Miami Business School who has some very valuable insight that can help all the fantasy football fans out there use O.R. to improve their lineups.

The marketing-focused podcast, Marketing Over Coffee, discusses new research from the INFORMS journal Marketing Science that explores the effectiveness of healthcare advertising. 

According to new research in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, NBA coaches give slightly more playing time to players of their own race, but the gap disappears at playoff time. 

Jessica Weaver, a Senior Workforce Analyst working in a Human Capital Analytics team in the greater Washington, D.C. metro area, discusses what motivated her to pursue a Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) designation.