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While generative AI (GenAI) can help define viable objectives for organizational and policy decision-making, the overall quality of those objectives falls short unless humans intervene.

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Travelers systematically give restaurants higher online ratings than locals do, revealing a “tourist bias” that could distort how diners and platforms interpret online reviews.

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Prepopulating e-commerce search bars with trending or personalized keywords can meaningfully increase both purchasing and consumer spending. 

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Reducing the chronic illness costs

Changing Business, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, September 16, 2016

A forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science by INFORMS member and professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Jian Ni, explores how guiding patients to a more appropriate level of healthcare can reduce healthcare expenditures. 

The pub crawl of a lifetime

The Guardian, October 21, 2016

Planning a pub crawl and need to know the shortest distance between each of your stops? INFORMS member Professor William Cook from the University of Waterloo, Canada has done just that on a much grander scale than could be accomplished in one night of festivities. Using the "traveling salesman problem" approach, Cook plotted the coordinates of 24,727 pubs in the U.K. to ascertain the shortest possible route between them all.

An OR career means high pay with low stress

Independent, October 19, 2016

Based on data pulled from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a US Department of Labor database that compiles detailed information on hundreds of jobs, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website, operations research analysts are among a list of 26 jobs that combine high pay with low stress.

The science of soup

Fast Company, October 20, 2016

You may not realize it, but a shocking amount of science and technology is behind every can of soup. INFORMS member Joseph Byrum, senior R&D and strategic marketing executive with Syngenta explores the extensive research that goes into plant genetics and breeding to canning to create a 'simple' can of tomato soup.

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