BALTIMORE, MD, November 12, 2024 – New research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management is guiding the development of more inclusive and efficient electricity markets. The work demonstrates how aggregating small-scale, distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar panels can effectively balance the power of large utility companies.
Global supply chains are undergoing an irrevocable shift. While material flows remain critical, they are only the most visible aspect of this transition. Beneath the surface, changes in information exchanges, financial reconfigurations, and human capital movements are posing far greater risks to the benefits of global trade. The US, China, and the rest the world must handle these changes with care and perspective.
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Transparency around data collection and risk assessments should be mandated by law, especially in high-risk applications of AI.
BALTIMORE, MD, September 13, 2023 – Using data from pre- and post-hurricane purchasing of consumer-packaged goods (CPG), new research has found that while consumers may switch brands in the lead-up to a natural disaster, they will likely switch back to their previously purchased brands when the crisis has passed. This has implications for the extent to which companies can expect to capture consumers using temporary price promotions.
Tighter margins and the need for more resources are driving independent physician practices under the ownership of hospitals and health systems, a trend known as vertical integration. Proponents say these bigger organizations allow smaller providers to compete more in highly concentrated markets and improve care coordination and quality. But studies from the past few years say the opposite, that vertical integration increases pricing without improving quality and harms competition.
Fourteen Hartford HealthCare doctors have projects they think could be accomplished, or completed more efficiently, if only artificial intelligence were applied to them.
If you’re a bit anxious that artificial intelligence might be coming for your job, you’re not alone: 22% of workers in the U.S. worry that technology will make their jobs obsolete, according to a Gallup poll out on Monday.
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