Decisions, Operations & Technology Management Archives - Page 3 of 6

A model separates potential profits or losses for hospital, doctors and other health care providers when insurer pays in lump sum

Revealed compensation might motivate workers to do more, without a raise

Quiz

Using smartphones to track lockdown compliance, paying employers to keep workers on the payroll and gauging nursing home availability

Research Brief / Gender

Other safety measures are easier to implement, but research suggests how female driver pool could be increased

Enormous growth and a redrawn supply chain required a new system

A model improves on-time performance and yields more repeat business

Can modern decision theory, paired with a half-century-old thought experiment, help make a more just society?

A model predicts with 80% accuracy which orders get handed off

Collective action, rather than each brand working alone, appears more effective and costs less

When to allow unpaid workers to call dibs on recurring tasks — and when not to

Improving the search for contractors that don’t use coercion

Operations management research identifies synergies for more efficient action

A mathematical model analyzes incentives underlying surge-pricing schemes

Splitting complex problems into parts simplifies and greatly speeds the task

Research Brief / Energy

Power companies haven’t maximized the benefits of customers agreeing to short-term electricity interruptions

If there are only six left, I guess I won’t be buying a dozen

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