Topic: Operations
A Scheduling Tool that Considers Employee Preferences
A model for staffing O.R.s incorporates the costs of worker dissatisfaction and idle time
How Established Firms Get Disrupted by Allies
Suppliers, distributers, product extenders go from helper to competitor
How Diversified Companies Can Redeploy Workers to Enable Growth
Experienced hands help new business lines find their way
Fixing a Food Bank’s Pandemic Logistics Problem
Enormous growth and a redrawn supply chain required a new system
Codifying the Nursing Home Industry’s Elusive, Alarming Turnover Rates
Payroll data allows researchers to finally build an accurate and meaningful measurement
A Proposal to Even Out Flu Vaccine Supplies
A system of manufacturer rewards and penalties, consumer taxes and subsidies could aid vaccination rates
Working for a Startup Depresses Long-Term Earnings
The most lucrative career paths avoid young, small firms
A Smaller Middle Class Means Less Variety on Grocery Shelves
Researchers compare income disparity by county to product availability
How Brands Can Anticipate Unauthorized Subcontracting of Apparel Manufacturing
A model predicts with 80% accuracy which orders get handed off
Employees Work at Multiple Nursing Homes and Spread COVID-19
Smartphone GPS tracks staffers between facilities
A Broader Measure of Value Creation at Corporations
A tool in the debate over shareholder primacy and wealth disparities
How Clinton and Trump Voters Behave in — and Spread — a Pandemic
Estimates are based on smartphone data and precinct-level 2016 vote results
Avoiding Direct Price Competition: Bundling and Unbundling
If one company bundles products, its competitors are always better off not bundling; the thing to avoid is a head-to-head competition wherein the only way to get an edge is by cutting prices
Do Surgeons Win or Lose When Medicare Bundles Payments?
A model separates potential profits or losses for hospital, doctors and other health care providers when insurer pays in lump sum
Kidney Transplant Outcomes Suffer at Clinics That Add Liver Transplants
Younger-patient mortality rate nearly triples, 20 years of data indicate
Google Says to Hire the Best, but Suppose You Can’t?
Top companies hog the best talent, adding to their competitive advantage