2018 Edelman Winner: Unlocking the Beachfront: Using Operations Research to Repurpose Wireless Spectrum - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently completed the world’s first two-sided spectrum auction, reclaiming spectrum from TV broadcasters to meet exploding demand for wireless ser...

Natural Gas Pipeline Transmission Optimization for China National Petroleum Corporation - China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is China’s largest oil and natural gas producer and supplier and controls 75 percent of the country’s natural gas resources and pipeline network. Over the past fiv...

Europcar Integrates Forecast, Simulation and Optimization Techniques in a Capacity and Revenue Management System - Europcar, the leading European car rental company, partnered with ACT Operations Research to create Opticar, a complex decision support system. Opticar features forecasts, discrete e...

Analytics Makes Inventory Planning A Lights-Out Activity at Intel Corporation - Intel, which employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 countries around the world and has an annual revenue of $60 billion, implemented a fully automated Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) based inventory t...

Collaborative Systems Analytics: Establishing Effective Clinical Practice Guidelines for Advancing Congenital Cardiac Care - The Pediatric Heart Network enlisted researchers with the Georgia Institute of Technology to create clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for pre-, intra-, and post-surgical c...

Turner Blazes a Trail for Audience Targeting on Television with Operations Research and Advanced Analytics - Turner has designed and implemented innovative and integrated forecasting and optimization models that power audience targeting solutions disrupting decades-old paradigms and business proc...