Announcing the results of the 2026 INFORMS Board of Directors election and the new board for 2027.
INFORMS has named 12 distinguished leaders as the 2026 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the profession.
America’s vaccine system faces more than a crisis of public confidence. It faces a potential operational breakdown. Changing vaccine recommendations without accounting for manufacturing capacity, supply chains, distribution networks and patient access risks turning uncertainty into shortages, delays and declining vaccination rates.
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INFORMS has announced that Vera Traub and Jens Vygen have been awarded the 2026 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for their book, “Approximation Algorithms for Traveling Salesman Problems,” published by Cambridge University Press.
A peer-reviewed study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science revealed that direct competitors in retail, online and offline firms, can both benefit by working together when it comes to handling product returns. The research shows that “buy online, return in store” (BORS) partnerships, such as those between Amazon and Kohl’s, can impact competition in a way that benefits both companies. At the same time, consumers can also be better off under some circumstances, leading to a win-win-win scenario for all players.
In a new study in INFORMS journal Marketing Science, prospective customers of commercial good discriminated against femininity expressed in photos on products. The femininity "penalty" did not vary for customers that are men, women or nonbinary.
INFORMS has named Ruth J. Williams, a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Emerita at the University of California, San Diego, as the recipient of the 2026 INFORMS President’s Award.
UCLA Anderson supply chain expert Christopher Tang says the "China plus one" shift has created mostly low-skill assembly jobs in Southeast Asia, and that the region struggles to replicate Shenzhen's vertically integrated factory ecosystem. He suggests Southeast Asian nations may need to split their industrial parks: one supply chain built to Western standards and a separate one aligned with Chinese networks serving the Global South.
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