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We’re told that weak ties – people we aren’t very close to – can help with job searches. But new research from the INFORMS journal Management Science on LinkedIn usage, where people have connections of differing intensities, shows that strong ties are more helpful in generating leads for jobs, interviews, and offers. Weak ties can offer suggestions, but they prove less fruitful, perhaps because they don’t know the individual as well.

Syngenta and the Analytics Society of INFORMS invite analytics and operations research students and professionals to contribute to the future of agriculture by entering the Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics. The submission period for the competition is now open, and entries will be accepted until Jan. 11, 2018.

According to a study conducted by Rahul Telang of Carnegie Mellon University and Rajiv Garg of the University of Texas, it's the quality, not the quantity, of your online professional connections that will help with a successful job search. Their study, based on a survey of 424 jobseekers, was published in Management Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Are you someone who prides yourself on your honest day-to-day behavior? Because that counts for absolutely nothing once you get yourself into a group, new research says. A study, published in the INFORMS journal Management Science, found that even individuals with a proven track record of honest behavior are prone to the potential for negative influences present in a group dynamic, especially when money is at stake.

A new algorithm designed by a group of Lehigh University engineering students and their professors has simplified the process of assigning inmates to correctional facilities. The new system not only is expected to save the prison system nearly $3 million a year but also has landed the Lehigh team in contention for the Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research, awarded each year by INFORMS, the leading international association for analytics and operations research professionals.