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作者：Qiu, Liangfei; Kumar, Subodha; Sen, Arun; Sinha, Atish
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：Reduction in hospital readmissions has long been identified as a target area for healthcare public policy reform by the US government. In October 2012, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) established the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) program, which requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce payments to hospitals with excess readmissions. Even with recent changes in ACA, the HRRP program is still in place. In this study, we empirically examine the effectiveness...
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作者：Feng, Youyi; Menezes, Mozart B. C.
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; NEOMA Business School
摘要：In this paper, we propose an inventory model that considers dual sources with energy storage to address the energy efficiency of an effective make-to-stock production facility that has access to grid electricity and a source of renewable energy, along with energy-storage capabilities. Such systems are being implemented in practice; however, the literature on inventory models does not offer solutions for extracting value from the management of such a complex energy mix coupled to energy-storage...
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作者：Lu, Lan; Zhu, Zheng; Guo, Pengfei; He, Qiao-Chu
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Zhejiang University; City University of Hong Kong; Southern University of Science & Technology
摘要：This study aims to examine and design operational strategies for mixed flows of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven vehicles (HVs). We propose a stylized model wherein utilitarian individuals either drive HVs or take privately operated AVs that are collectively dispatched. In the baseline mixed policy where AVs and HVs share the same lanes, we find that AVs under-join the traffic (queue) while HVs over-join. We identify a crowding-out effect such that AVs will tend to mitigate the over-...
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作者：Nenova, Zlatana; Shang, Jennifer
作者单位：University of Denver; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Managing patients with chronic conditions is challenging. It requires timely care adjustments based on the patient's health status. We leverage big data to optimize patient monitoring frequencies and improve treatment. Our research is motivated by the need to improve patient care at the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals. We propose an integrated model to better serve patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD is prevalent, complex, and costly. The demand for kidney care has steadily increas...
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作者：Lan, Yingchao; Goradia, Deepa; Chandrasekaran, Aravind
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：This study investigates diagnostic testing and pharmacy expenditures, commonly referred to as ancillary costs in the United States acute-care hospitals. These ancillary costs are charges associated with services provided to support patient treatment, including laboratory, radiology, and pharmacy charges. Despite of investment in inter-organizational and technological collaboration practices, these costs continue to rise. Our research examines the role of individual healthcare providers, namely...
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作者：Bai, Jiaru; Gurnani, Haresh; Yin, Shuya
作者单位：Wake Forest University
摘要：Traditionally, outlet stores were situated away from main stores in order to provide older, less desirable products at discounted prices. More recently, some firms have featured an outlet-within-a-store concept and offer consumers the experience of outlet shopping at the same location. With interest in examining the effect of location differentiation and uncertain outlet store's product fit on a firm's distribution strategy, we model a firm with an existing main store and study its motivation ...
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作者：Cohen, Maxime C.; Huang, Nina; Li, Meng; Pavlou, Paul A.
作者单位：McGill University; University of Miami; University of Houston System; University of Houston
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作者：Jost, Peter-J; Ressi, Anna
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
摘要：This paper considers price competition in a market where two firms sell a homogeneous service to a continuum of customers differing with respect to some exogenous characteristic. Our paper's novelty consists of explicitly acknowledging a distinctive property of many services in that firms incur customer-specific service costs after the contract is signed. Hence, not only the customers' willingness-to-pay and as such demand but also the firms' supply are related to customer characteristics. In ...
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作者：Ananthanarayanan, Sai Mali; Branas, Charles C.; Elmachtoub, Adam N.; Stein, Clifford S.; Zhou, Yeqing
作者单位：Columbia University; Columbia University; Columbia University; Eindhoven University of Technology
摘要：The requirement of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic has presented significant challenges for high-rise buildings, which heavily rely on elevators for vertical transportation. In particular, the need for social distancing has reduced elevator capacity typically by at least two-thirds or as much as over 90%$90\%$ of the normal amount. This reduction is a serious concern, as reduced elevator capacities cause large queues to build up in lobbies, which makes social distancing difficul...
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作者：Mehta, Sameer; Dawande, Milind; Janakiraman, Ganesh; Mookerjee, Vijay
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：The unprecedented rate at which data are being generated has led to the growth of data markets where valuable data sets are bought and sold. A salient feature of this market is that a data-buyer (agent) is endowed with multidimensional private information, namely, her ideal record that she values the most and how her valuation for a given record changes as its distance from her ideal record changes. Consequently, the revenue-maximization problem faced by a data-seller (principal), who serves m...
