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The finalists for the 2026 Franz Edelman Award innovate in supply-chain replenishment, food distribution, cloud fulfillment and carbon-aware high-performance computing.

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Spending lots of scrolling through social media videos is a habit that many people often fall into. While it can be entertaining, mental health experts say it also can be harmful.

In journal Information System Research, researchers posted a model they created that uses AI to detect which videos can affect mental health, or even spark suicidal thoughts.

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In a new study, advanced analytics demonstrates that healthier school schedules are not only achievable but can also improve district operations and reduce costs.

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Decision Science Digest: October 10, 2023

Decision Science Digest: October 10, 2023

News Release, October 10, 2023

BALTIMORE, MD, October 10, 2023 –

EDITOR’S NOTE: Decision Science Digest is a periodic communique highlighting recent peer-reviewed research published by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, across its 17 journals. This issue highlights four press releases based on the findings of new peer-reviewed articles.

  • Countering Government Persuasion Attempts on Facebook: The Efforts to Educate Consumers (INFORMS journal Information Systems Research)
  • Pre-Storm Stock Out: Weather Events Force Consumers to Purchase What’s Available, But do the Decisions Stick Long-term? (INFORMS journal Marketing Science)
  • Secret Grades: Students Not Told Their Class Grades Take Harder Classes (INFORMS journal Management Science)
  • Carpool Decisions and Waze: New Results Proves the Impact of HOV Lanes (INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management)
Bringing it home: The three A’s and the return of American manufacturing

Bringing it home: The three A’s and the return of American manufacturing

CFO Dive, October 9, 2023

According to a recent McKinsey report on international manufacturing trends, the United States lost over six million jobs to offshoring between the years 2000 – 2009. But a UC Berkeley study undertaken as far back as the early 2000s tabulated losses of up to fourteen million jobs throughout the nation’s economic ecosystem. Each offshored manufacturing and/or service job exerts an adverse, widely resonating local-to-national jobs impact, akin to how throwing a stone into a pond sends waves from the point of impact outwards, far and wide.

Lego's ESG Problem

Lego's ESG Problem

Industrial Equipment News, October 5, 2023

Why an abandoned plan to use recycled plastic bottles is a wake-up call for supply chain sustainability.

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