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作者：Bendoly, Elliot; Chao, Raul O.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Virginia
摘要：We empirically investigate how time reductions in particular product development stages impact market value. Using longitudinal project data from 107 firms, we compare stage times prior to and following investments in new product development process changes. Our analysis reveals a predominance of focus on time reduction in the late stages of product development. We also find support for the existence of an inverted-U relationship between market performance and time reductions for some of these...
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作者：Tong, Chunyang; Nagarajan, Mahesh; Cheng, Yuan
作者单位：Tongji University; University of British Columbia; Tsinghua University
摘要：Service quality is an important attribute that is used to characterize many service systems. In this study, we examine a service system with two consecutive steps that have shared resources. The service process consists of a base service (first step in the process) followed by a second step that adds additional value. We first look at a social surplus maximizing service provider (SP) who decides the optimal service capacity and re-optimizes in response to changes in the speed of service of the...
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作者：Duan, Lingjie; Shou, Biying; Huang, Jianwei
作者单位：Singapore University of Technology & Design; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Indoor cell phone users often suffer poor connectivity. One promising solution to this issue, femtocell technology, has been rapidly developed and deployed over the past few years. One of the biggest challenges facing femtocell deployment is the lack of a clear business model. This study investigates the economic incentive for cellular operators (also called macrocell operators) to enable femtocell service by leasing spectrum resources to independent femtocell operators. We model the interacti...
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作者：Chen, Hongyu; Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric); Ceran, Yasin
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Long Beach; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Santa Clara University
摘要：User-generated contents (UGC) in social media such as online reviews are inherently incomplete since we do not capture the opinions of users who do not write a review. These silent users may be systematically different than those who speak up. Such differences can be driven by users' differing sentiments toward their shopping experiences as well as their disposition to generate UGC. Overlooking silent users' opinions can result in a reporting bias. We develop a method to model users' UGC gener...
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作者：Qi, Lian; Chu, Leon Yang; Chen, Rachel R.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of Southern California; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：This study examines a firm's quality and price decisions when consumers differ not only in their willingness-to-pay for quality but also in their reservation utility for the basic product. We find that while the firm offers lower-quality products when consumers' valuations for quality deteriorate, the optimal quality may increase with a negative shift in consumers' reservation utilities. We also investigate the optimal price and quality of the products within a vertically differentiated produc...
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作者：Vanajakumari, Manoj; Kumar, Subodha; Gupta, Sushil
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：In the aftermath of a disaster, the relief items are transported from temporary warehouses (Staging Areas, SAs) to the Points of Distribution (PODs). Reducing the response time to provide relief items to disaster victims and cost minimization are two important objectives of this study. We propose an integrated optimization model for simultaneously determining (1) locations of staging areas, (2) inventory assignments to these SAs, (3) selecting sizes and numbers of trucks, and (4) routing of tr...
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作者：Ibrahim, Rouba; Kucukyazici, Beste; Verter, Vedat; Gendreau, Michel; Blostein, Mark
作者单位：University of London; University College London; McGill University; Universite de Montreal; Polytechnique Montreal; McGill University
摘要：In this study, we develop an analytical framework for personalizing the anticoagulation therapy of patients who are taking warfarin. Consistent with medical practice, our treatment design consists of two stages: (i) the initiation stage, modeled using a partially-observable Markov decision process, during which the physician learns through systematic belief updates about the unobservable patient sensitivity to warfarin, and (ii) the maintenance stage, modeled using a Markov decision process, d...
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作者：Chuang, Howard Hao-Chun; Oliva, Rogelio; Liu, Sheng
作者单位：National Chengchi University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：A potential answer to retailer's shelf out-of-stocks (OOS), where the item is in the store but customers cannot find it, is to employ third-party service providers to execute audits and corrections. However, given the nontrivial cost of executing external audits, it is still necessary to assess whether external audits are capable of reducing shelf-OOS, whether they can be performed in an economical way, and whether the benefits from the audits translate into higher sales. In an effort to addre...
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作者：Zepeda, E. David; Sinha, Kingshuk K.
作者单位：Northeastern University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：A criticism of behavioral health care delivery is that it has largely missed the social determinants of behavioral health disorders and their diagnosis. Toward addressing this criticism, this study evaluates the delivery of behavioral health care as a part of primary care operations. Focusing on the treatment of depression, the study results show that: (i) primary care clinics operating in communities with superior social environment characteristics are associated with improved depression outc...
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作者：Zhao, Yukun; Zhao, Xiaobo; Wang, Lihong; Chen, Yefen; Zhang, Xinmeng
作者单位：Tsinghua University; University of Connecticut; Beihang University
摘要：To date, it has not been elucidated whether the strategy method and the direct-response method lead to different behaviors in experiments of economic games. In this study, we investigate this issue under a multi-round setting of the capacity allocation game with both of the elicitation methods. In the first experiment (regular behavioral experiment), subjects are paired to make decisions in a laboratory through a computer network platform. In the second experiment (neuroimaging experiment), th...
