BALTIMORE, MD, April 23, 2025 – As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans reaches critical levels, groundbreaking new research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal – boosting efficiency by more than 60%.
Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.
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The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research, and Syngenta, announce a new, joint award, the Syngenta Crop Challenge, which will focus on ways that analytics can address the problem of feeding millions of people throughout the world who face hunger every day.
CATONSVILLE, MD, September 25, 2015 – Companies can increase profits by getting customers to buy through more than one channel, for example the bricks-and-mortar store andthe Internet rather than the store alone. However, this strategy requires a well-honed marketing campaign that combines the right message and incentive, according to a new study being published in Marketing Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research, today issued a call for entries to contend for its best cases competition, the Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and Management Science.
CATONSVILLE, MD, September 21, 2015 – A study of early-stage supermarket adoption in India finds that upper and lower middle class consumers are most likely to favor new, modern groceries while the “middle” middle class is more likely to patronize mom and pop “kirana” stores, a phenomenon illustrated by an unusual V-shaped curve for modern retail adoption, according to a new study published in Marketing Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Rules that encourage cooperative behavior lead people to develop altruistic responses even in new contexts, a new Yale-led research found.
This spillover effect suggests it is possible for organizations or even entire cultures to foster “habits of virtue,” said David Rand, assistant professor of psychology and economics at Yale and senior author of the paper appearing in the journal Management Science.
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