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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Are shoppers accepting price hikes as a necessity or do they see food & beverage processors as opportunists? We talk about that and more in this year's forecast.
BALTIMORE, MD, January 4, 2023 – 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.
Many an emergency manager has told me that they would not touch working at King County, Wash., as emergency manager. Hey, I survived 11 years in the job and left on my own terms. People in our business generally try to avoid politics since they don't want to get burned by getting involved.
When we asked readers to nominate the next wave of Roanoke's leaders, we received a slew of impressive submissions in a variety of categories. Applicants were judged not only on their career achievements but also on their involvement in the community and other factors; with 112 incredible nominees, choosing only 40 was an incredibly difficult decision for our editorial team!
People 65 and older now account for nine of out 10 COVID-19 deaths, a higher proportion than at any other time in the pandemic.
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