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作者：Gallien, Jeremie; Leung, Ngai-Hang Z.; Yadav, Prashant
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; City University of Hong Kong; INSEAD Business School; Harvard University; Harvard Medical School
摘要：In many low- and middle-income countries, including Zambia, stockouts of life-saving medicines threaten the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); it is therefore vital to reduce stockouts through the use of improved inventory control policies. The associated medicine distribution problem is challenging because it involves seasonality and uncertainty in both demand and lead times, heterogeneous delivery locations, and lost demand. Besides service level and inventory costs, eq...
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作者：Arora, Priyank; Wei, Wei; Solak, Senay
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
摘要：Related to several efforts by governments to attain United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, subsidy vouchers are used to provide monetary support to income-eligible (IE) families who cannot afford child care. However, IE families are often unable to accept an offered voucher due to an inadequate supply of voucher-accepting child care providers that best suit their needs. Child Care Resource and Referral agencies (CCR&Rs), which administer these programs, can influence the family's propen...
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作者：Azizi, Shima; Bozkir, Cem Deniz Caglar; Trapp, Andrew C.; Kundakcioglu, O. Erhun; Kurbanzade, Ali Kaan
作者单位：Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ozyegin University
摘要：There are 26 million refugees worldwide seeking safety from persecution, violence, conflict, and human rights violations. Camp-based refugees are those that seek shelter in refugee camps, whereas urban refugees inhabit nearby, surrounding populations. The systems that supply aid to refugee camps may suffer from ineffective distribution due to challenges in administration, demand uncertainty and volatility in funding. Aid allocation should be carried out in a manner that properly balances the n...
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作者：Daniels, Kaitlin M.; Valdes, Leon
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Non-profit organizations (NPOs) play a critical role in advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, directing resources from donors to aid recipients. To achieve this, they often rely on donations of physical goods, which can not only further the mission of the NPO, but also give new life to used goods destined for the landfill. However, not all donations are wanted or needed-the NPO may be space constrained or the donation may be of poor quality. Accepting unwanted donations imposes non-t...
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作者：Tompaidis, Stathis
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：I discuss the framework proposed by John Birge in Network Structure and Its Impact on Commodity Markets.
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作者：Bunn, Derek W.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：This is an invited commentary on the perspective paper by Sheridan Titman concerning the drivers of risk transmission across supply chains that have fundamental commodity inputs.
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作者：Ritchken, Peter; Wu, Qi
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Cape Town
摘要：Many manufacturing firms have become increasingly flexible in that they can rapidly idle and restart production in response to changing commodity prices. We study how operational flexibility alters both the timing and financing decisions in the firm. We perform this analysis in a dynamic model in which a firm has multiple debt issues and decisions are made to maximize shareholder value. We compare the decisions of a flexible firm, which can temporarily shut down to avoid operational losses, wi...
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作者：De Vries, Harwin; Swinkels, Lisa E.; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Improving access to family planning services is key to achieving many of the United Nations sustainable development goals. To scale up access in remote areas and urban slums, many developing countries deploy mobile family planning teams that visit outreach sites several times per year. Visit frequencies have a significant effect on the total number of clients served and hence the impact of the outreach program. Using a large dataset of visits in Madagascar, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, our study mode...
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作者：Ritchken, Peter
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Cape Town
摘要：This commentary provides my own reflections on Risk Transmission Across Supply Chains Titman (Production and Operations Management, 2021).
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作者：Angelus, Alexandar
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Renewable energy generation at the point of consumption (i.e., distributed generation) reduces consumer's electricity expenditure, and eliminates the cost, complexity, and inefficiency associated with power transmission and distribution. In this study, we address the problem of how a consumer should invest in distributed renewable generation to minimize the total expected cost of meeting his electricity demand. In contrast to the existing literature that focuses on grid-connected, large-scale ...
