Media Coverage

New research that examined 4,452 CEOs from 2,666 U.S. firms, as well as 104,129 news articles and 6,567 CNBC interviews, found that CEOs who appeared in CNBC interviews could expect their compensation to increase by $210,239 on average, notwithstanding firm performance and other mitigating factors. The study, “The Relationship between CEO Media Appearances and Compensation,” will be published in the upcoming volume of the INFORMS journal Organization Science.

The country's largest senior living operator, Brookdale, is following in the footsteps of the country's largest independent living operator, Holiday Retirement, by rolling out a new pricing model that can tailor rent levels to individual communities and units within them. It's the same pricing system for which Holiday Retirement and Prorize received the 2017 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences in April from INFORMS, an international association for operations research and analytics professionals.

The magic of Disney may be partially attributed to Tinker Bell's sprinkling of faith, trust, and pixie dust, but it can also be chalked up to the company's reliance on data and research. Maarten Bos, a research scientist for Disney Research, and speaker at the recent 2017 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference, is one of the people who makes this kind of magic (or as the organization calls it, the "science behind the magic") happen.

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.

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.