INFORMS Releases

New audio is available for media use featuring Ramayya Krishnan, the Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s also the Public Policy and William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems. Krishnan speaks about smart cities and America’s future. Carnegie Mellon is home to Metro 21: Smart Cities Institute. Metro21 is an interdisciplinary research and implementation lab at Carnegie Mellon that uses technology to work with metropolitan and rural communities to tackle some of their most pressing real-world challenges. This content is made available by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. What follows are four questions and responses. These responses were provided on November 14, 2022.

New audio is available for media use featuring Hui Zhao, a professor of supply chain management and Charles and Lilian Binder Faculty Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University. She speaks about new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines on the prescriptions of opioids. The audio is provided by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. What follows are four questions and responses. These responses were provided on November 8, 2022.

New audio is available for media use featuring Natalie Scala, an associate professor and director of the graduate programs in supply chain in the College of Business and Economics at Towson University. She’s also a faculty Affiliate Associate Research Scientist at the Applied Research Lab for Intelligence and Security at the University of Maryland. Scala speaks about election security in the 2022 Midterms. This content is made available by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. What follows are four questions and responses. These responses were provided on November 7, 2022.

BALTIMORE, MD, November 3, 2022 – At a campaign event in the midst of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the chief executive officer of Goya, a large Latin food brand, publicly praised and endorsed then-president Donald Trump. The comments triggered both a boycott and a counter “buycott” movement in support of the brand.

BALTIMORE, MD, October 26, 2022 – New research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and University of Washington, finds a 10% increase in TV product placement for cigarettes increases sales by 2% for the tobacco brand shown on-screen. Furthermore, it has the same effect on its direct competitors’ sales as well.