INFORMS Releases

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)

BALTIMORE, MD, October 5, 2023 – New research focused on whether incentivizing would-be online reviewers to post reviews can make a difference for the seller has shed new light on the role those reviews play in sales and revenue outcomes.

BALTIMORE, MD, October 4, 2023 – INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, has officially named 12 outstanding members as Fellows, one of the highest honors in the operations research (O.R.) profession. The 2023 INFORMS Fellows will be inducted during the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Oct. 15-18, which will be held in Phoenix, Arizona. INFORMS Fellows are honored for their outstanding lifetime accomplishments and contributions in O.R. and analytics.

BALTIMORE, MD, September 13, 2023 – Using data from pre- and post-hurricane purchasing of consumer-packaged goods (CPG), new research has found that while consumers may switch brands in the lead-up to a natural disaster, they will likely switch back to their previously purchased brands when the crisis has passed. This has implications for the extent to which companies can expect to capture consumers using temporary price promotions.

BALTIMORE, MD, September 12, 2023 – Finding the right medication regimen to treat Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a complex healthcare challenge. Wearable health trackers provide physicians with a detailed window into patients’ symptoms, but translating this complex data into useful treatment insights can be difficult. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science accomplishes just that. Researchers found that combining wearable health tracker data with state-of-the-art algorithms results in promising treatment strategies that could improve PD patients’ outcomes.