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作者：Wooten, Joel O.; Ulrich, Karl T.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators about the quality of submissions. In this article, we use design contests allowing repeated entry to examine the effect of in-process feedback on idea generation. We report on a set of field experiments using two online contest websites to compare the performance of three different feedback treatmentsno feedback, random feedback, and dir...
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作者：Ranjan, Chitta; Paynabar, Kamran; Helm, Jonathan E.; Pan, Julian
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：The ability to accurately forecast and control inpatient census, and thereby workloads, is a critical and long-standing problem in hospital management. The majority of current literature focuses on optimal scheduling of inpatients, but largely ignores the process of accurate estimation of the trajectory of patients throughout the treatment and recovery process. The result is that current scheduling models are optimizing based on inaccurate input data. We developed a Clustering and Scheduling I...
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作者：Sen, Alper; Talebian, Masoud
作者单位：Ihsan Dogramaci Bilkent University; Sharif University of Technology
摘要：For many retailers, markdown decisions are taken by retail buyers whose compensation is based on sales revenue so their objective is to maximize it through the season. This implies that the buyers' objectives are not perfectly aligned with the overall profitability the firm. Many retailers set markdown budgets prior to the season to control margin erosion and increase profitability. Markdown budget constrains the buyers on the amount of discounts that they can apply on a given inventory of mer...
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作者：Atasu, Atalay; Toktay, Beril; Yeo, Wee Meng; Zhang, Can
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Agency for Science Technology & Research (A*STAR); A*STAR - Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech); University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：We analyze not-for-profit Medical Surplus Recovery Organizations (MSROs) that manage the recovery of surplus (unused or donated) medical products to fulfill the needs of underserved healthcare facilities in the developing world. Our work is inspired by an award-winning North American non-governmental organization (NGO) that matches the uncertain supply of medical surplus with the receiving parties' needs. In particular, this NGO adopts a recipient-driven resource allocation model, which grants...
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作者：Xu, Su Xiu; Huang, George Q.
作者单位：Jinan University; Jinan University; University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study is the first proposing allocatively efficient multi-attribute auctions for the procurement of multiple items. In the B2B e-commerce logistics problem (ELP), the e-commerce platform is the shipper generating a large number of online orders between product sellers and buyers, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers are carriers that can deliver these online orders. This study focuses on the ELP with multiple attributes (ELP-MA), which is generally the problem of matching the shipper...
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作者：Gallien, Jeremie; Rashkova, Iva; Atun, Rifat; Yadav, Prashant
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Washington University (WUSTL); Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Despite substantial financial aid from international donors for procurement of health products, stockouts of life-saving drugs related to prevalent infectious diseases are still widespread in Africa. Rigorous research to understand the underlying causes of these stockouts is lacking. To this end, we study the relationship between The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and its grant recipients. Specifically, we leverage historical fund disbursement and drug procurement data fro...
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作者：Kohnke, Emily J.; Mukherjee, Ujjal Kumar; Sinha, Kingshuk K.
作者单位：Iowa State University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The efforts of not-for-profit organizations (NPOs) toward enabling health care delivery in underserved communities across the globe are well-acknowledged. To date, little is known about the workings and sustenance of NPO-enabled long-term health care delivery in underserved communities, and even less about NPO-enabled surgical care delivery. Further, health care delivery in underserved communities is a context that is often characterized by primitive and poor record keeping, data scarcity and ...
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作者：Cezar, Asunur; Cavusoglu, Huseyin; Raghunathan, Srinivasan
作者单位：TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Firms are increasingly outsourcing information security operations to managed security service providers (MSSPs). Cost reduction and quality (security) improvement are often mentioned as motives for outsourcing information security, and these are also the frequently cited reasons for outsourcing traditional information technology (IT) functions, such as software development and maintenance. In this study, we present a different explanation-one based on interdependent risks and competitive exte...
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作者：Cil, Eren B.; Pangburn, Michael S.
作者单位：University of Oregon
摘要：A mass customization strategy enables a firm to match its product designs to unique consumer tastes. In a classic horizontal product-differentiation framework, a consumer's utility is a decreasing function of the distance between their ideal taste and the taste defined by the most closely aligned product the firm offers. A consumer thus considers the taste mismatch associated with their purchased product, but otherwise the positioning of the firm's product portfolio (or, brand image) is immate...
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作者：Eppinger, Steven D.
