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When a large corporation puts money into a small startup, huge innovations can result — like the rapid-fire development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
BALTIMORE, MD, March 6, 2025 – Even though the future of TikTok in the U.S. hangs in the balance, a groundbreaking study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science introduces a game-changing algorithm that predicts which TikTok ads will drive sales before they even go live.
Contentious minerals deal has sparked a war of words between Trump and Zelensky, and could be announced later this week
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When a large corporation puts money into a small startup, huge innovations can result — like the rapid-fire development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
INFORMS, the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics, has selected three finalists for the 2021 UPS George D. Smith Prize, which recognizes excellence in preparing students to become practitioners of operations research and analytics.
The U.S. government has invested billions of dollars in manufacturing, used a wartime act dozens of times to boost supplies and yet there’s still not enough covid vaccine on the way to meet demand — or even the government’s own goals for national immunization.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) order requiring international travelers coming into the U.S. to provide either proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of traveling or proof of recovery from COVID-19 makes no sense.
The country is in a race against time to end the coronavirus pandemic. Some health experts say vaccination is the only way the U.S. will reach herd immunity. But could the country be doing better in terms of vaccine distribution?
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