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.
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.
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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As the Trump administration prepares to invest hundreds of billions in its infrastructure networks, Anna Nagurney, INFORMS Fellow and professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, shares how operations research can help identify where those investments will have the most impact.
With researchers estimating that 150,000 data analytics professionals are needed to fill roles in Canada, York University will help to address the talent shortage when it launches its big data analytics program this September. Facilitated as a part-time offering through York’s School of Continuing Studies, the big data analytics program is comprised of two certificates — the certificate in big data analytics and the certificate in advanced data science and predictive analytics. The certificate in advanced data science and predictive analytics, which launches in winter 2018, delves into data organization for analysis and advanced methods and analytics for those looking to pursue the INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) designation, the premier global professional certification for analytics practitioners.
A new INFORMS journal of Marketing Science study explores the hidden risks of businesses face when combining price discounts with large charity donations.
Marketers know they should keep their messages simple if they want to cut through the noise and reach customers. The key question is then: Of your product’s attributes, which one should you focus on? New research in the INFORMS journal of Marketing Science suggests that companies may want to emphasize the same attribute that their rivals do.
A few of Mickey Mouse’s pals within a division of The Walt Disney Company have been working on a method to better target marketing by learning more about consumers’ personalities. Research scientist Maarten Bos has worked on ways to better understand audience personality and how ads can be tailored to them based on the images used, a topic he presented on at the recent 2017 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference.
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