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作者：Chand, Suresh; Dada, Maqbool; Deshpande, Vinayak; Graves, Stephen; Nuggehalli, Ranganath; Petruzzi, Nicholas
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Johns Hopkins University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); United Parcel Service; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
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作者：Chen, Lin; Roels, Guillaume
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Problem definition: For many information goods, longer publication cycles (or batches of information) are more economical, but often result in less timely-and, therefore, less valuable-information. Whereas the digitalization of publication processes has reduced fixed publication costs, making shorter publication cycles more economically viable, competing firms have adapted their publication cycles differently: some of them publish more frequently, whereas others publish less frequently. In the...
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作者：Lauinger, Dirk; Vuille, Francois; Kuhn, Daniel
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
摘要：Problem definition: Vehicle-to-grid increases the low utilization rate of privately owned electric vehicles by making their batteries available to electricity grids. We formulate a robust optimization problem that maximizes a vehicle owner's expected profit from selling primary frequency regulation to the grid and guarantees that market commitments are met at all times for all frequency deviation trajectories in a functional uncertainty set that encodes applicable legislation. Faithfully model...
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作者：Frazelle, Andrew E.; Katok, Elena
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Problem definition: Motivated by the prevalence of paid priority programs in practice, we study a service provider operating a system in which customers have random waiting costs and choose between two queues: regular (no cost) or priority (for a fee). We also consider a mechanism by which the provider redistributes a portion of priority revenue to compensate regular-queue customers for their longer waits. Methodology/results: To determine the waiting-cost-dependent equilibrium priority purcha...
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作者：Candogan, Sidika Tunc; Cornelius, Philipp B.; Gokpinar, Bilal; Korpeoglu, Ersin; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of London; University College London; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Problem definition: Crowdfunding goes beyond raising funds. Entrepreneurs often use crowdfunding to solicit feedback from customers to improve their products and may therefore prefer to launch their crowdfunding campaigns using basic versions of their products with fewer features. However, customers may not be persuaded by a campaign if the product appears to be underdeveloped. In view of this tradeoff, a key question for entrepreneurs is how much to develop a product before launching a crowdf...
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作者：Dong, Jing; Gorgulu, Berk; Sarhangian, Vahid
作者单位：Columbia University; McMaster University; University of Toronto
摘要：Problem definition: Delays in admission to rehabilitation care can adversely impact patient outcomes. In addition, delayed patients keep occupying their acute care beds, making them unavailable for incoming patients. Admission delays are mainly caused by a lack of rehabilitation bed capacity , the time required to plan for rehabilitation activities, which we refer to as processing times. Because of non-standard bed allocation decisions and data limitations in practice, quantifying the magnitud...
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作者：Ozer, Ozalp; Urrea, Gloria; Villa, Sebastian
作者单位：Amazon.com; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of New Mexico
摘要：Problem definition: Charities face tension when deciding whether to earmark donations, that is, allow donors to restrict the use of their donations for a specific purpose. Research shows that earmarking decreases operational performance because it limits charities' flexibility to use donations. However, there is also a common belief that earmarking increases donations. Earmarking is assumed to increase donations through three mechanisms: by (i) giving donors control over their donations, (ii) ...
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作者：Agrawal, Deepak; Osadchiy, Nikolay
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：Problem definition: We provide a novel, supply network-based perspective on inventory productivity and incentives for its improvement. Methodology/results: Using data from 2003 to 2019, we find that inventory productivity is lower materially and statistically for firms located upstream in the supply network, and higher for high degree and more central firms. Firms with high inventory productivity show high equity valuations and abnormal returns, with both valuations and abnormal returns amplif...
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作者：Long, Xiaoyang; Gui, Luyi
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Problem definition: Overproduction is often cited as the fashion industry's biggest environmental issue, as textile production is notoriously resource intensive and pollutive, and much of the textile produced may end up as deadstock fabric or finished goods that do not sell. In this paper, we study two major approaches to address this issue: quick response, whereby finished goods inventory is replenished on demand, and upcycling, whereby deadstock fabric is reused to make new clothes. Proponen...
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作者：Tang, Jingwen; Chen, Boxiao; Shi, Cong
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Miami
摘要：Problem definition: We consider a periodic-review dual-sourcing inventory system with a regular source (lower unit cost but longer lead time) and an expedited source (shorter lead time but higher unit cost) under carried-over supply and backlogged demand. Unlike existing literature, we assume that the firm does not have access to the demand distribution a priori and relies solely on past demand realizations. Even with complete information on the demand distribution, it is well known in the lit...
