BALTIMORE, MD, February 25, 2025 – In an era in which influencer marketing dominates digital platforms, a groundbreaking study in the INFORMS journal Management Science unveils a surprising reality: sponsored content can harm an influencer’s reputation and reduce audience engagement.
On Jan. 21, OpenAI launched the $500 billion Stargate Project with partners like Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle. This initiative aimed to secure American AI leadership, create jobs, and boost the economy. Initially, this boosted the stock prices of these companies.
Living in limbo: An estimated 2 million U. S. federal employees were thrust into a decision they did not seek to make. A deadline from the Trump Administration was halted last week, and is now in the hands of a judge. When a deadline is set those employees will have to make a high-stakes choice: Take a buyout and resign, or they can choose to stay in an uncertain job environment, including the possibility of being laid-off or having significant changes in work duties or leave with a buyout. This current reprieve gives these federal employees a little more time, but the fundamental question for each of them remains: What’s the right move for your career and future?
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The company started the new year by reworking internal communication standards and clearing calendars of all recurring meetings with more than three people.
Since the onset of the pandemic, we have all learned just how crucial supply chains are in our economy and daily lives; even more so, have we all learned how important pharmaceutical supply chains are, especially when considering the mechanisms of disease spread. Supply chains in the pharmaceutical industry are extremely complicated due to all the different entities involved in decision-making, including actors specific to the industry: regulatory organizations, insurance companies, and GPOs. This is what a recently awarded Northeastern University NSF grant project sets out to investigate.
BALTIMORE, MD, January 3, 2023 – The political divide in America is evident everywhere you look, from news to social media. But do people’s politics extend to their brand and consumer preferences? A new study says yes.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stymied plans to open an American university in the capital. After moving online the first year, the institution is charting a path through the chaos.
New research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management finds that Medicare Advantage (MA), the largest healthcare capitation program in the U.S., unintentionally incentivizes health plans to cherry-pick profitable patients from traditional Medicare (TM). “Capitation” is the annual fee paid to a healthcare practice by each participant in a health plan.
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