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Five-Star Rating? New Research Finds It May Not Reflect What Consumers Receive

Five-Star Rating? New Research Finds It May Not Reflect What Consumers Receive

News Release, June 1, 2022

BALTIMORE, MD, June 1, 2022 – Five stars means a perfect rating, right? Consumers use online ratings systems to decide which products to purchase, but are they reliable sources of information? New research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science finds these ratings systems might be built on an unstable foundation, with the systems becoming less useful over time.

Surprising New Research Finds Women Supporting Women in Business May Backfire

Surprising New Research Finds Women Supporting Women in Business May Backfire

News Release, May 31, 2022

BALTIMORE, MD, May 31, 2022 – Contrary to popular belief, well-intentioned calls for women to invest in women-owned businesses might be doing more harm than good in resolving the gender gap in venture financing. New research found in the INFORMS journal Organization Science finds that female-owned startups that get funding from female venture capitalists are two times less likely to get additional financing compared to those with male investors.

New Research Finds Developing Personalized Disease Screenings for Patients with Chronic Diseases Saves Lives and Money

New Research Finds Developing Personalized Disease Screenings for Patients with Chronic Diseases Saves Lives and Money

News Release, April 26, 2022

BALTIMORE, MD, April 26, 2022 – Current healthcare guidelines focus on management of one disease and ignore some patients’ underlying, chronic conditions. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that if personalized disease screening recommendations are made for these patients, it will save lives and money for the healthcare system.

Do Nutrition Warning Labels on Food Products Help or Hurt?

Do Nutrition Warning Labels on Food Products Help or Hurt?

News Release, April 8, 2022

CATONSVILLE, MD, April 8, 2022 – Regulators around the world are increasingly requiring food product packaging to display nutrition warning labels. This raises the question of whether those warnings influence consumer purchasing decisions, and if so, how does it affect consumers’ health?

New Research Finds Partnership Between Humanitarian Organizations and Government is Essential to Providing Cash Assistance to Refugees

New Research Finds Partnership Between Humanitarian Organizations and Government is Essential to Providing Cash Assistance to Refugees

News Release, March 21, 2022

BALTIMORE, MD, March 21, 2022 –The recent crisis in Ukraine is reigniting the discussion of the appropriate mix of assistance for refugees. According to the UN Refugee Agency, six million refugees already lived in camps in 2021 due to multiple armed conflicts worldwide. Humanitarian organizations (HOs) are working to help people struggling because of regulations that impede integration into host countries. Cash assistance is one way that HOs are helping in addition to providing in-kind assistance in the form of food and non-food items. The intention of the cash assistance is to provide refugees with spending flexibility, restore their dignity and improve the wealth of the host community. However, cash assistance brings its own challenges. New research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management identifies a way to provide incentives for the retailer to voluntarily reduce prices while causing no harm to refugees or host communities.

Economic Lessons Learned from the Pandemic: Study Finds that Blanket Stimulus Payments Did Not Adequately Consider Local Conditions

Economic Lessons Learned from the Pandemic: Study Finds that Blanket Stimulus Payments Did Not Adequately Consider Local Conditions

News Release, March 10, 2022

CATONSVILLE, MD, March 10, 2022 – After states throughout America instituted general lockdowns for businesses, employers and residents when COVID-19 arrived in the United States in 2020, one of the first measures taken to offset the impact came when the U.S. Congress passed the CARES Act that was signed into law on March 27, 2020. That measure provided $4.4 trillion in assistance to businesses and individuals through “stimulus checks” that were sent to millions of qualifying U.S. citizens.

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