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Corporate Chains Revolutionize Fertility Clinics: Improved IVF Success Rates, More Treatments and Safer Outcomes
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BALTIMORE, MD, January 21, 2025 – New research published in the INFORMS journal Management Science reveals that corporate chain ownership of fertility clinics not only increases access to treatment but also enhances patient outcomes. The study shows that chain-owned clinics perform 27.2% more IVF cycles, achieve a 13.6% improvement in success rates, and adopt standardized practices that reduce risky multiple births while prioritizing healthier single births.

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The LA crisis is bigger than the fires — insurance is the next burning issue
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The Los Angeles wildfires have spread across tens of thousands of acres of land, burning everything in their path. Homes have been destroyed and lives upended as families begin the process of rebuilding — not only their homes, but their lives.  

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Opinion: What to watch in the coming AI policy shake-up
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Something remarkable is happening in Washington. Tech executives who once shunned the political spotlight now make regular pilgrimages to Capitol Hill, and artificial intelligence — a field that traces back to the 1950s — has become the talk of the town.

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Iron Dome

News Release, September 2, 2014

CATONSVILLE, MD, September 2, 2014 – A new study published by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) examines the strengths and weaknesses of the Iron Dome system, which Israeli authorities have credited with saving lives during the recent conflict with Hamas.

Marketing Science and Social Welfare

News Release, August 25, 2014

CATONSVILLE, MD, August 25, 2014 —For “credence services” such as auto-repair, healthcare, and legal services, the benefit to the customers for the service is difficult to assess before and even after the service. A new study in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) finds that in a credence services market, when more service providers care about the customer’s wellbeing, society as whole may actually be worse off. 

TransSci electric vehicles

News Release, August 18, 2014

CATONSVILLE, MD, August 18, 2014 — Until battery cost is cut down to $100 per kilowatt hour, the majority of U.S. consumers for battery electric vehicles (BEV) will be better off by choosing an electric vehicle with a range below 100 miles, according to a new study in the Articles in Advance section of Transportation Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Mid-Level Scientists Most Likely to Use New Research Tools

News Release, August 4, 2014

CATONSVILLE, MD, August 4, 2014 – Scientists in the middle of the status hierarchy, not those at the top or the bottom, are the first to work with easy-to-use commercial products. They are also the most prone to imitate their prior collaborators’ use of such commercial kits. These are among the findings of a study of scientists-as-customers appearing in Marketing Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

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