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作者:Lee, Hau L.
作者单位:Stanford University
摘要:As supply chains become more and more globalized, even in times of disruptions and trade frictions, and that consumers are increasingly more demanding on the environmental and social responsibility performances of the supply chains that supply products they are buying, research in supply chain management should also contribute to make an impact under such trends. I call this supply chains with a conscience, where supply chains need to continuously strive to minimize the harms and negative impa...
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作者:Escamilla, Rafael; Fransoo, Jan C.; Tang, Christopher S.
作者单位:Tilburg University; Kuhne Logistics University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要:In developing economies, nanostores (i.e., small independent neighborhood stores) in urban and rural areas face different infrastructural, operational, and financial challenges. How can urban nanostores compete with supermarket chains as they enter the market? How can rural nanostores provide more services at affordable prices to sustain their operations? By developing innovative business models enabled by new technologies such as smartphones, mobile payments, and solar panels, we show how urb...
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作者:Chen, Xi; Shi, Chao; Wang, Yining; Zhou, Yuan
作者单位:New York University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要:We study a stylized dynamic assortment planning problem during a selling season of finite length T. At each time period, the seller offers an arriving customer an assortment of substitutable products and the customer makes the purchase among offered products according to a discrete choice model. The goal of the seller is to maximize the expected revenue, or equivalently, to minimize the worst-case expected regret. One key challenge is that utilities of products are unknown to the seller and ne...
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作者:Zhang, Na; Kannan, Karthik; Shanthikumar, George
作者单位:Amazon.com; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要:For a slow-moving high-margin product, we demonstrate the viability of an information-based nudging strategy. The motivation to study this problem was because a firm faced availability constraints for one of its slow-moving high-margin products, but the available quantities still exceeded the current demand. To identify customers to nudge, we develop a support vector machine (SVM) approach to rank order the customers based on their propensity to purchase the product. The underlying notion in o...
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作者:Liu, Qiang; Liu, Xiaofeng; Balachander, Subramanian
作者单位:Purdue University System; Purdue University; Zhongnan University of Economics & Law; University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要:We study, using a stylized analytical model, an entrepreneur's design of the optimal product menu for crowdfunding together with the optimal choice of the funding target. We find that in contrast to prior literature on crowdfunding, downward quality distortion of the low-quality product in the entrepreneur's product menu under crowdfunding can be higher, lesser or even non-existent than that under traditional selling. We also show that crowdfunding as an alternative to traditional selling is o...
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作者:Qiu, Liangfei; Hong, Yili (Kevin); Whinston, Andrew
作者单位:State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
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作者:Liang, Yong; Lu, Mengshi; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max; Tang, Runyu
作者单位:Tsinghua University; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要:Data center networks provide the physical infrastructure that hosts Internet-related services and cloud computing. Designing data center networks properly is imperative for Internet-related service and cloud computing providers to gain competitive edges through cost efficiency and service quality. In this study, we formulate a mathematical programming model to address the data center network design problem, in which the objective is to minimize total operating cost and the service delay penalt...
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作者:Shi, Pengyi; Helm, Jonathan E.; Heese, H. Sebastian; Mitchell, Alice M.
作者单位:Purdue University System; Purdue University; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; North Carolina State University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要:The gap between medical research on diagnostic testing and clinical workflow can lead to rejection of valuable medical research in a busy clinical environment due to increased workloads, or rejection of medical research in the laboratory that may be valuable in practice due to a misunderstanding of the system-level benefits of the new test. This has implications for research organizations, diagnostic test manufacturers, and hospital managers among others. To bridge this gap, we develop a Marko...
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作者:Hu, Ming
作者单位:University of Toronto
摘要:Operations management has the tradition of coming from and going back to real-life applications. It deals with the management of the process of matching supply with demand. The emerging business process in a sharing economy or an innovative marketplace calls for active management at the operational level. We take a neoclassical perspective by drawing inspiration from the classic models in operations management and economics. We aim at building connections and identifying differences between th...
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作者:Lai, Guoming; Liu, Yixuan; Xiao, Wenqiang
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Purdue University System; Purdue University; New York University
摘要:This paper studies the effects of international taxation on multinational firms' production outsourcing strategies, which has attracted recent attention from both practitioners and legislators. We formulate a stylized economic model with information asymmetry and find that under the territorial tax system, the presence of global tax disparity may result in subtle changes of a firm's production outsourcing strategy. In particular, the tax consideration can make a multinational firm more incline...