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作者：Cao, Xinyan; Fang, Xiang; Xiao, Guang; Yang, Nan
作者单位：Northern Illinois University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Children's Hospital Colorado; University of Colorado Denver; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of Miami
摘要：Problem definition: We study an optimal contract design problem for a national brand (NB) manufacturer, which sells her product via a retailer. The retailer may introduce his store brand (SB) with private cost information. The manufacturer estimates that the retailer's SB cost may be high or low with certain probabilities and offers a menu of twopart tariff contracts to screen the retailer's cost information. Methodology/results: Following the mechanism design theory, we formulate the problem ...
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作者：Lu, Tao; Zheng, Zhichao; Zhong, Yuanguang
作者单位：University of Connecticut; Singapore Management University; South China University of Technology
摘要：Problem definition: With the rapid growth of the gig economy, on-demand staffing platforms have emerged to help companies manage their temporary workforce. This emerging business-to-business context motivates us to study a new form of supply chain coordination problem. We consider a staffing platform managing an on-demand workforce to serve multiple firms facing stochastic labor demand. Before demand realization, each individual firm can hire permanent employees, whereas the platform determine...
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作者：Wang, Guihua; Li, Jun; Hopp, Wallace J.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Problem definition: This study addresses three important questions concerning personalized healthcare: (1) Are outcome differences between hospitals heterogeneous across patients with different features? (2) If they are, how do the best quality hospitals identified using patient-centric information differ from those identified using population average information? (3) How much will hospitals' pay-for-performance reimbursements change if their performance is measured based on patient-centric in...
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作者：Zhu, Taozeng; Yeo, Nicholas Teck Boon; Gao, Sarah Yini; Loke, Gar Goei
作者单位：Dongbei University of Finance & Economics; Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Singapore Management University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：Problem definition: In the blood-donor-management problem, the blood bank incentivizes donors to donate, given blood inventory levels. We propose a model to optimize such incentivization schemes under the context of random demand, blood perishability, observation period between donations, and variability in donor arrivals and dropouts. Methodology/results: We propose an optimization model that simultaneously accounts for the dynamics in the blood inventory and the donor's donation process, as ...
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作者：Bichescu, Bogdan; Hilafu, Haileab
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：Problem definition: Hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) represent undesirable complications that occur during a hospital stay. HACs can compromise patient safety and care outcomes and result in unnecessary socio-economic costs. Although hospitals are expected to reduce the incidence of HACs, few studies have examined the implications of HACs on other clinical outcomes and measures of hospital performance. This study contributes to the literature by exploring the relationship between exposure t...
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作者：Borenstein, Alison; Mangal, Ankit; Perakis, Georgia; Poninghaus, Stefan; Singhvi, Divya; Lami, Omar Skali; Lua, Jiong Wei
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); New York University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Problem definition: Online retailers provide recommendations of ancillary services when a customer is making a purchase. Our goal is to predict the net present value (NPV) of these services, estimate the probability of a customer subscribing to each of them depending on what services are offered to them, and ultimately prescribe the optimal personalized service recommendation that maximizes the expected long-term revenue. Methodology/results: We propose a novel method called cluster-while-clas...
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作者：Adjerid, Idris; Ayvaci, Mehmet U. S.; Ozer, Ozalp
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Amazon.com
摘要：Problem definition: Algorithm-enabled decision support has an increasingly important role in supporting the day-to-day operations of healthcare organizations. Yet, fully realizing the value of algorithmic decision support lies critically in the opportunity to re-engineer the related processes and redefine roles in ways that make organizations more effective. We study how and when algorithm-enabled process innovation (AEPI) creates value in light of dynamic operational environments (i.e., workl...
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作者：Yu, Qiuping; Mankad, Shawn; Shunko, Masha
作者单位：Georgetown University; North Carolina State University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Problem definition: The effect of the minimum wage is an important yet controversial topic that has received attention for decades. Our study is the first to take an operational lens and empirically study the impact of the minimum wage on firms' scheduling practices. Methodology/results: Using a highly granular data set from a chain of fashion retail stores, we estimate that a $1 increase in the minimum wage, although having a negligible impact on the total labor hours used by the stores, lead...
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作者：Xu, Yunzong; Wang, Zizhuo
作者单位：Microsoft; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：Problem definition: Motivated by several practical selling scenarios that require previous purchases to unlock future options, we consider a multistage assortment optimization problem, where the seller makes sequential assortment decisions with commitment and the customer makes sequential choices to maximize her expected utility. Methodology/results: We start with the two-stage problem and formulate it as a dynamic combinatorial optimization problem. We show that this problem is polynomial-tim...
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作者：Wang, Jingqi; Huang, Tingliang; Lee, Junghee
作者单位：The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Problem definition: Qualcomm, the largest cellphone chipmaker in the world, had adopted a cross-licensing agreement with its clients, downstream cellphone manufacturers. It requires cellphone manufacturers to allow each other to use their patents for free. This cross-licensing practice has received considerable scrutiny and attention around the world. We study the impacts of cross-licensing in a supply chain in which an upstream supplier requires its downstream competing manufacturers to cross...
