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作者：Li, Shengli; Cheng, Hsing Kenneth; Jin, Yong
作者单位：Peking University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：While the optimal distribution channel strategy of physical goods has been extensively studied, there is a lack of research for that of enterprise software as a digital good. This research analyzes the optimal distribution strategy of enterprise software by taking into account the distinct features of enterprise software for both the short-run problem, in which the software quality is fixed, and the long-run problem, in which the software quality becomes part of the strategic decisions. Our re...
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作者：Kettunen, Janne; Kwak, Young Hoon
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：We show that the schedule for contracting public procurements can impact the number of proposals and thereby the cost of procured services or products. This holds when the market for procurement contracts is not perfectly competitive, which is typically the case for large and costly public procurements. We formalize this previously unexplored operational level problem of scheduling procurement contracting and develop an optimization framework to solve it. For large problems we propose a hierar...
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作者：Srinivasan, Ravi; Swink, Morgan
作者单位：Loyola University Maryland; Texas Christian University
摘要：Many businesses are seeking to develop and exploit analytics capabilities today. Using organizational information processing theory (OIPT), we study demand visibility and supply visibility as foundational resources for analytics capability, and organizational flexibility as a complementary capability. We further examine relationships among these factors under varying conditions of market volatility, a type of environmental uncertainty. The results from our analysis of data from 191 global firm...
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作者：Shen, Xiaobei; Bao, Lina; Yu, Yimin
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; Zhejiang University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：We consider a periodic review, joint inventory and pricing control problem for a firm that faces general random price-dependent demands. Any unsatisfied demand can be either backordered or lost immediately. The objective is to maximize the expected profit over a finite selling horizon by coordinating the inventory and pricing decisions in each period. For both the backorder model and the lost sales model, we derive some quite general sufficient conditions to ensure the optimality of a base-sto...
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作者：Kovach, Jeremy J.; Atasu, Atalay; Banerjee, Sumitro
作者单位：Texas Christian University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Grenoble Ecole Management
摘要：We analyze how salesforce incentives influence a firm's remanufacturing strategy and profitability. We first consider a salesforce incentive model based on the practice of a North American consumer products firm, which offers commissions based on the total revenue generated from new and remanufactured product sales. We then consider a model with differentiated linear commissions for new and remanufactured products. We show that the incentives offered to a salesforce to induce effort can create...
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作者：Jung, Kyung Sung; Geismar, H. Neil; Pinedo, Michael; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; New York University
摘要：Many automated manufacturing systems use robotic cells, which consist of a set of machines served by a robot. Robotic cells with a single-gripper robot have been extensively studied in the literature. By contrast, cells with a dual-gripper robot, although more productive, have received less attention, perhaps because of their inherent complexity. We consider the problem of scheduling operations in dual-gripper robotic cells that have the machines configured in a circular layout and that produc...
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作者：Laker, Lauren F.; Froehle, Craig M.; Windeler, Jaime B.; Lindsell, Christopher John
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Xavier University; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Vanderbilt University
摘要：The healthcare industry has invested heavily in electronic health records and other clinical information systems in order to improve caregivers' access to information and ability to share information with other care providers. It has been shown that these systems can readily induce in their users a state of information overload, where the volume and complexity of information overwhelms the user, leading to lower decision speed and quality. This research introduces and tests a cognitive techniq...
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作者：Corbett, Charles J.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：The rapid growth of big data provides tremendous opportunities for making better decisions, where better can be defined using any combination of economic, environmental, or social metrics. This essay provides a few examples of how the use of big data can precipitate more sustainable decision-making. However, as with any technology, the use of big data on a large scale will have some undesirable consequences. Some of these are foreseeable, while others are entirely unpredictable. This essay hig...
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作者：Ayvaci, Mehmet Ulvi Saygi; Alagoz, Oguzhan; Ahsen, Mehmet Eren; Burnside, Elizabeth S.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Decision models representing the clinical situations where treatment options entail a significant risk of morbidity or mortality should consider the variations in risk preferences of individuals. In this study, we develop a stochastic modeling framework that optimizes risk-sensitive diagnostic decisions after a mammography exam. For a given patient, our objective is to find the utility maximizing diagnostic decisions where we define the utility over quality-adjusted survival duration. We use r...
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作者：Slaugh, Vincent W.; Scheller-Wolf, Alan A.; Tayur, Sridhar R.
作者单位：Cornell University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Nursing home managers are increasingly striving to ensure consistency of care, defined as minimizing the number of unique nurse aides who care for a resident during at least one shift over the course of one month. Unfortunately, managers often struggle to provide consistent care, primarily due to last-minute nurse aide absences and choosing to staff these absences with aides from an external rental agency. We are the first to study the use of an on-call pool-aides on staff who may be called in...
