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作者：Shunko, Masha; Do, Hung T.; Tsay, Andy A.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Vermont; Santa Clara University
摘要：What motivates the geographic footprint of the supply chains that multinational firms (MNFs) deploy? Traditional research in the operations and supply chain management literature tends to recommend locations primarily based on differentials in production costs and the ramifications of physical distance ignoring the role of taxation. MNFs that strategically position parts of their supply chains in low-tax locations can allocate the profits across the divisions to improve post-tax profits. For t...
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作者：Steinker, Sebastian; Hoberg, Kai; Thonemann, Ulrich W.
作者单位：Kuhne Logistics University; University of Cologne
摘要：To be efficient, logistics operations in e-commerce require warehousing and transportation resources to be aligned with sales. Customer orders must be fulfilled with short lead times to ensure high customer satisfaction, and the costly under-utilization of workers must be avoided. To approach this ideal, forecasting order quantities with high accuracy is essential. Many drivers of online sales, including seasonality, special promotions and public holidays, are well known, and they have been fr...
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作者：Kraft, Tim; Raz, Gal
作者单位：University of Virginia; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：The recent proliferation of media reports on substances of concern has increased consumer fears, sparked scientific debate, and highlighted the need for stronger chemical regulations. When a substance of concern is identified (e.g., bisphenol-A (BPA) in reusable water bottles), manufacturers face difficult trade-offs in deciding whether to proactively replace the substance in their products or to defer replacement and wait to see if regulation occurs. In this study, we examine when opportuniti...
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作者：Manou, Athanasia; Canbolat, Pelin G.; Karaesmen, Fikri
作者单位：Koc University
摘要：We consider a transportation station, where customers arrive according to a Poisson process, observe the delay information and the fee imposed by the administrator and decide whether to use the facility or not. A transportation facility visits the station according to a renewal process and serves all present customers at each visit. We assume that every customer maximizes her individual expected utility and the administrator is a profit maximizer. We model this situation as a two-stage game am...
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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...
