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New Research Shows How Inclusive Workplaces Can Empower Black Employees to Thrive
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BALTIMORE, MD, February 19, 2025 – A groundbreaking study in the INFORMS journal Organization Science has revealed how workplaces can better support Black employees, ensuring they feel empowered to express their true selves. Conducted by a team of researchers from leading universities, the study highlights the transformative power of inclusive environments where authenticity and mutual understanding are valued.

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OpenAI’s New Stargate Project and China’s DeepSeek: Goliath vs. David
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On Jan. 21, OpenAI launched the $500 billion Stargate Project with partners like Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle. This initiative aimed to secure American AI leadership, create jobs, and boost the economy. Initially, this boosted the stock prices of these companies.

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Resign or stay? Federal workers are on the clock — Here’s how decision-analysis tools can help
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Living in limbo: An estimated 2 million U. S. federal employees were thrust into a decision they did not seek to make. A deadline from the Trump Administration was halted last week, and is now in the hands of a judge. When a deadline is set those employees will have to make a high-stakes choice: Take a buyout and resign, or they can choose to stay in an uncertain job environment, including the possibility of being laid-off or having significant changes in work duties or leave with a buyout. This current reprieve gives these federal employees a little more time, but the fundamental question for each of them remains: What’s the right move for your career and future?

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Friends' influence helps telecom firms retain customers

Friends' influence helps telecom firms retain customers

Carnegie Mellon University News, September 19, 2018

Retaining customers is a central concern in many industries, including IT markets, where churn rates—the rate at which subscribers to a service discontinue their subscriptions—are high. A new study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University tested a strategy to help a telecommunications firm manage churn. Contacting not only customers but also their friends helped reduce the customers’ propensity to discontinue their ties to the company.

Overbought does not mean 'sell'

Overbought does not mean 'sell'

Money Life with Chuck Jaffe, August 31, 2018

Sorin Sorescu of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University discusses his recent study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science that provides an in-depth analysis of major innovations and stock market bubbles from 1825 through 2000 and found some very distinctive patterns in the occurrence of bubbles over 175 years. 

New study introduces approach that can roughly double success rates of kidney transplants

New study introduces approach that can roughly double success rates of kidney transplants

Jersey Tribune, September 5, 2018

A new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science shows how to improve the success rate of an innovative kidney matching process called kidney exchange. The enhancement centers on a new concept called ‘failure-aware’ matching that takes pre-transplant compatibility failures into account probabilistically. Depending somewhat on the exact setting, the method can roughly double the number of transplants.

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