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Announcing the results of the 2026 INFORMS Board of Directors election and the new board for 2027.

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INFORMS has named 12 distinguished leaders as the 2026 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the profession.

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Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.

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CMU researcher: Don’t depend on LinkedIn to find a job

CMU researcher: Don’t depend on LinkedIn to find a job

Pittsburgh Magazine, September 11, 2017

How many times a week do you get a LinkedIn connection request? Conversely, how many requests do you seek when visiting the career networking site? A new study from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences suggests you might be wasting your time.

Traffic jams during hurricane evacuations are entirely preventable

Traffic jams during hurricane evacuations are entirely preventable

Quartz, September 9, 2017

INFORMS member and Director of the Transportation Center at Northwestern University, Hani Mahmassani discusses solutions to the bumper-to-bumper traffic associated with nearly every hurricane evacuation effort, and why these solutions are often not implemented.  

Want to improve your business’s online ratings? Make sure to respond to reviews

Want to improve your business’s online ratings? Make sure to respond to reviews

News Release, September 8, 2017

CATONSVILLE, MD, September 8, 2017 - Can responding to online reviews improve a business’ online reputation? According to a forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, a leading academic marketing journal, management responses can not only lead to higher ratings for businesses, but also more informative reviews.

The surprising connection between cloudiness and clicks

The surprising connection between cloudiness and clicks

OZY, September 8, 2017

A recent study published in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science shows that the effectiveness of ad content is directly impacted by the weather: on sunny days, consumers respond to positive tone ads, while on rainy days the opposite is true.

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