FCC, TBS cited for analytics prowess
FCC and Turner broadcasting are among those listed among the six finalists for the prestigious 2018 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award for Achievements in Operations Research and Management Science.
FCC and Turner broadcasting are among those listed among the six finalists for the prestigious 2018 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award for Achievements in Operations Research and Management Science.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) today announced that it has selected the Federal Communications Commission as one of six finalists for the 47th annual Franz Edelman Award for Achievements in Operations Research and Management Science, which recognizes corporate, non-profit, and governmental organizations that have used operations research and related tools to solve complex problems. Chairman Ajit Pai issued a statement.
While free or low-threshold music streaming sources such as Spotify paying more and more users to more expensive platforms like iTunes, they are also providing one greater popularity of less popular artists beyond the "Top 100," according to a new study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science.
In a new study published in the INFORMS journal Management Science, economists Kathryn Graddy, of Brandeis University, and Carl Lieberman, of Princeton University, focus on one specific source of an artist’s misery: the death of loved ones. Their paper, “Death Bereavement, and Creativity,” centers on the psychological notion of “flow,” a person’s most creative state, and how it is interrupted by the loss of a parent, spouse, child, or friend as grief occupies the mind.
The tortured artist is a familiar archetype. But does misery really produce masterpieces? A 2016 study that examined the lives of three major classical composers suggests as much. But a new paper in the INFORMS journal Management Science that focuses on painters comes to the opposite conclusion.
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