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Fighting the Opioid Epidemic: AI and Optimization Model Leads to More Accessible, Equitable Treatment Resource Distribution
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BALTIMORE, MD, October 15, 2024 – The opioid epidemic is a crisis that has plagued the United States for decades. One central issue of the epidemic is inequitable access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), which puts certain populations at a higher risk of opioid overdose.

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The Impact of Weather on the Supply Chain
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The supply chain for many small parcel shipping companies is typically long. Products are often made in distant lands, travel on oceans and waterways, arrive at ports, are then transported to warehouses, from where a third-party logistics provider delivers the product to its intended destination. In a stable world, shippers and customers alike can expect a product to be delivered within the promised time window. However, in a world facing high levels of uncertainty caused by war, pandemic, political instability, raw material shortages, freak accidents (recall the regional and national impact of the bridge collapse in the Port of Baltimore caused by a container ship), and weather, the shipper must work overtime to ensure customer expectations are met at no additional cost, despite these uncertainties.

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Trump and Harris Are Courting Workers. Their Minimum Wage Plans Are Muddled.
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The minimum wage is getting lip service on the campaign trail. Well-intentioned plans can backfire, Christopher Tang writes in a guest commentary.

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When You Use Multiple Devices, Can Marketers Still Track You?

When You Use Multiple Devices, Can Marketers Still Track You?

News Release, June 1, 2022

CATONSVILLE, MD, June 1, 2022 – If you only used one device, like your smartphone, for all of your internet searches and other applications, the data collected about you through that device would provide a picture of your preferences, habits and behaviors. This would help marketers better anticipate and specifically market to you going forward.

Racially Charged Events Spark Classroom Intervention

Racially Charged Events Spark Classroom Intervention

News Release, June 6, 2022

BALTIMORE, MD, June 6, 2022 – As we approach Juneteenth, a day marked each year to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, new research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that racially-charged events and protests over the past decade have a direct and positive effect on what children are learning in U.S. public school classrooms.

How to Combat Human Trafficking in America

How to Combat Human Trafficking in America

Audio Clip, June 6, 2022

New audio is available for media use featuring Kayse Lee Maass. She is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University. She talks about how to combat human trafficking in America. This content is made available by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences. All sound should be attributed to Kayse Lee Maass. There are 4 questions and responses. These responses were provided on June 2, 2022.

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.

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