BALTIMORE, MD, January 17, 2025 – INFORMS, the world’s largest association for professionals and students in operations research (O.R.), AI, analytics and data science, has unveiled six finalists for the prestigious 2025 Franz Edelman Award for achievement in advanced analytics, operations research and management science. Recognized as the pinnacle of achievement in the application of analytics and operations research, the award, often referred to as “The Nobel Prize” of O.R. and advanced analytics, celebrates groundbreaking research and innovations that are transforming industries, improving lives and shaping a smarter, more sustainable future.
Cutting-edge chips, especially those designed to power emerging AI applications, tend to receive the most attention in the media and generate the most excitement. However, so-called “legacy” chips are just as important — if not more — to our daily lives.
January is National Blood Donor Month and, not coincidentally, a time when donations tend to ebb. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood for serious injuries, childbirth, cancer treatments and more, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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CATONSVILLE, MD, June 8, 2017 - While the general consensus regarding stretch goals is that they boost drive, innovation, and improve organizational performance, new research in the INFORMS journal Organization Science shows that this is the exception, and not the rule. For many organizations, stretch goals can serve to undermine performance.
CATONSVILLE, MD, June 7, 2017 – A new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science shows that the U.S. economy is strengthened by H-1B visa holders who fill key roles in enhancing organizations and supplementing the work of their U.S. peers. This is particularly true for trades like the U.S. audit industry that employ a large number of individuals who hold H-1B visas, and who recruit highly skilled foreign workers for specialty occupations.
By examining the actual causes of why patients choose more generous health insurance coverage and costly treatments, a recent Marketing Science study discovered that not just cost, but the lack of knowledge and uncertainty about effectiveness of other treatments, drives choice.
CATONSVILLE, MD, June 2, 2017 – Offering comprehensive health insurance plans with low deductibles and co-pay in exchange for higher annual premiums seems like a good value for the risk averse, and a profitable product for insurance companies. But according to a forthcoming study in a leading scholarly marketing journal, the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, such plans can encourage individuals with chronic conditions to turn to needlessly expensive treatments that have little impact on their health outcomes. This in turn raises costs for the insurer and future prices for the insured.
With the Energy Department's clean energy programs facing significant funding cuts, how should the department focus its limited funding for the greatest energy and environmental impact? Erin Baker, INFORMS member and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her colleagues, explored a number of recent studies to identify clean energy technologies that will have a positive environmental impact, despite decreased federal funding.
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