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Paid Maternity Leave Policies Could Be Costing Women Tech Jobs
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BALTIMORE, MD, May 22, 2025 – Well-intentioned employer-paid maternity leave policies may be the catalyst for the unintended consequence of costing women jobs in the technology workforce instead of boosting their participation, according to a groundbreaking study in the INFORMS journal Management Science.

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Why Congress May Push Back on State AI Regulations
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House Republicans proposed a 10-year pause on state rules for artificial intelligence. What that could mean for consumer protections.

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Has flying become more dangerous? We speak to a Professor of statistics and a Director of aerospace engineering
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From the Jeju Airline tragedy to the Washington DC plane and helicopter collision, it makes you wonder whether flight safety standards have dropped.

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Lessons learned from hurricane recovery can improve supply chains

Lessons learned from hurricane recovery can improve supply chains

The Hill, September 27, 2021

We are in the middle of hurricane season. Every time one rolls through the Gulf Coast or Florida on its way up through the Atlantic Seaboard and the Northeast, as was recently seen with Ida, only after the winds and rain stop does the real clean-up work begin. The same observation can be made about our nation’s deeply troubled supply chain.   

The great container shortage

The great container shortage

ABC, September 27, 2021

Standardising shipping containers in the 1950’s made global trade possible but what happens to supply chains when there’s a shortage of these big metal boxes

Decision Science Digest: September 28, 2021

Decision Science Digest: September 28, 2021

Journal Paper, September 28, 2021
  • New Research Predicts Wildfire Threat and Helps Position Personnel and Resources Accordingly (INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics)
  • Physician Incentives Can Reduce the Overuse of Cardiac Stents by 26% (INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management)
  • Researchers Develop Way to Improve Fleet-based Operations that Reduce Electric Mobility Service Costs by Nearly 40% (INFORMS journal Transportation Science)
  • Learning from Failure: New Research Shows Too Much Optimism Hinders Entrepreneurs (INFORMS journal Organization Science)
Ranked choice, multimember districts could ‘handicap’ gerrymandering

Ranked choice, multimember districts could ‘handicap’ gerrymandering

Sciencenewsnet.in, September 23, 2021

ITHACA, N.Y. – New research from Cornell University lays out in detail why ranked-choice voting (RCV), combined with multi-member legislative districts, promotes fair representation and severely limits the gerrymanderers’ ability to draw themselves into the Election Day winner’s circle.

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