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作者：Somanchi, Sriram; Adjerid, Idris; Gross, Ralph
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：Coupling healthcare datasets with advanced statistical methods has the potential to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare dramatically. However, data used for predictive decision making in healthcare delivery has significant variable costs. We offer a novel and generalizable framework that helps reduce the costs associated with the use of data for healthcare analytics while maintaining high predictive accuracy. We utilize this approach in the emergency department (ED) context and sp...
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作者：Wang, Tianxiang; Yu, Peiwen; Hu, Jianqiang
作者单位：Fudan University; Chongqing University
摘要：We study a decentralized admission control problem with capacity borrowing. In this problem, the admission decision is made by each server who is assigned dedicated capacity. However, a server can borrow capacity from other servers if his dedicated capacity is exhausted. The borrower compensates the lender by a payment equal to the borrowing cost. Hence, the servers share their capacities via borrowing, but they also compete against each other for their pooled capacities. We formulate this pro...
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作者：Karamshetty, Varun; De Vries, Harwin; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.; Dewilde, Sarah; Minnaard, Warnyta; Ongarora, Dennis; Abuga, Kennedy; Yadav, Prashant
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; INSEAD Business School; University of Nairobi
摘要：Universal health coverage (UHC) is an integral part of the United Nations sustainable development goals. The private sector plays a prominent role in achieving UHC, being the primary source of essential medicines for many people. However, many private healthcare facilities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have insufficient stocks of essential medicines. Simultaneously, these same facilities carry excessive quantities of other drugs, leading to obsolescence. This suggests poor invent...
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作者：Zhou, Zach Zhizhong; Choudhary, Vidyanand
作者单位：Tongji University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：The number and impact of open source projects is increasing. We examine the impact of competition from open source software (OSS) on proprietary software providers by analyzing three cases: (i) proprietary software as a monopoly, (ii) mixed duopoly competition between proprietary software provider and OSS, and (i) duopoly competition between two proprietary software providers. We use an analytical model to capture two important features of OSS: (i) its zero licensing price and (ii) its lower u...
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作者：Yu, Jiayi Joey; Tang, Christopher S.; Li, Musen Kingsley; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max
作者单位：Fudan University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Shanghai University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
摘要：Accessibility of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations is an important factor for adoption of EV, which is an effective green technology for reducing carbon emissions. Recognizing this, many governments are contemplating ideas for achieving EV adoption targets, such as constructing extra EV charging stations directly or offering subsidies to entice automakers to construct more EV charging stations. To achieve these targets, governments need to coordinate with automakers to ensure that the to...
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作者：Pu, Jingchuan
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：The past decade has witnessed the explosive implementation of corporate social tools and technologies such as corporate internal online communities. However, there is little empirical evidence on whether and to what extent the implementation of an internal online community affects individual job performance in the geographically dispersed organization. In this study, we investigate this question with a quasi-natural experiment: A large manufacturer (i.e., the company) introduced an internal on...
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作者：Xiang, Yi; Soberman, David; Gatignon, Hubert
作者单位：China Europe International Business School; University of Toronto; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Understanding the patterns of demand evolution for a new category is important for firms to effectively manage capacity planning, market and service operations, and research and development. Our objective is to analyze how marketing at the industry level affects the evolution of primary demand in different stages of the product life cycle. We characterize the aggregate marketing activities in two constructs: marketing breadth and competitive spread. The first construct reflects the spread of s...
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作者：Ergin, Elcin; Gumus, Mehmet; Yang, Nathan
作者单位：McGill University; Cornell University
摘要：This study offers an empirical investigation of inventory and sales dynamics in a large-scale retail network setting. We infer the impact of product shortages on sales in neighboring outlets using unique data from a large fast fashion retailing chain and an Instrumented Difference-in-Differences (DDIV) methodology. Our analysis reveals that sales for a particular item at a focal store increases when that same item experiences stock-outs in neighboring stores. Our empirical findings suggest tha...
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作者：Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein; Zare, Ata Ghareaghaji; Konrad, Renata A.
作者单位：University of Waterloo; University of Toronto
摘要：The current literature on pricing in service systems with time-sensitive customers predominately ignores the rational abandonment of customers with mixed-risk attitude. The goal of this study is to address this gap. We consider an unobservable queueing system with a nonlinear waiting cost function, which is concave up to a certain point and then becomes convex, capturing the mixed-risk attitude of customers observed in empirical studies. We assume that customers are sensitive with respect to w...
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作者：Merrick, Jason R. W.; Dorsey, Claire A.; Wang, Bo; Grabowski, Martha; Harrald, John R.
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University; Northeastern University; Le Moyne College; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; George Washington University
摘要：Advances in machine learning methods and the availability of new data sources show promise for improving prediction of operational risk. Maritime transportation is the backbone of global supply chains and maritime accidents can lead to costly disruptions. We describe a case study performed for the United States Coast Guard (USCG) to develop a prototype risk prediction system to provide early alerts of elevated risk levels to vessel traffic managers and operators in the Lower Mississippi River,...
