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The financial services industry is using machine learning to revolutionize its processes and rapidly improve financial outcomes, and its potential seems limitless. That’s why the University of Delaware’sInstitute for Financial Services Analytics (IFSA) brought together leading minds in industry and academia for its 2019 conference “Machine Learning in Financial Services,” hoping to create a dialogue and in which both can learn from each other and explore this potential.

Diabetes, whether Type 1 or Type 2, may be the most underappreciated, misunderstood and poorly treated of all common medical problems, and many of the more than 30 million Americans affected by it are paying dearly with their health and lives as a result.

Many of the biggest companies have wholeheartedly embraced the theory that more diversity means more profits. Investors may be less convinced—at least when it comes to adding women to boards.

SAVVI Financial LLC co-founder, Dr. Dimitris Bertsimas, is awarded the INFORMS President's Award and the Prestigious John von Neumann Theory Prize.

In theory, a company should be intrinsically motivated to create a gender-diverse board of directors. More diversity means more ideas, competing views, and new perspectives. In practice, it’s a different story. New research appearing in the journal Organizational Science finds that firms can pay a steep price for their efforts to increase board diversity.