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The disruption may cause price hikes, hurting the US economy in the near future, a supply chain expert warns.
BALTIMORE, MD, February 25, 2025 – In an era in which influencer marketing dominates digital platforms, a groundbreaking study in the INFORMS journal Management Science unveils a surprising reality: sponsored content can harm an influencer’s reputation and reduce audience engagement.
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.
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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A look at the coming year with the 2025 INFORMS President, Part 2
Welcome back to part two of a very special interview with our 2025 INFORMS President Dave Hunt. Earlier this month, we released part one of our conversation, during which we took a look at Dave’s goals and objectives for INFORMS in the year ahead, as well as answered some informative but FUN questions about Dave to help our listeners and INFORMS members get to know him a little better. Today, we continue our conversation with a look at how Dave came to be into the field of OR/MS and analytics, what shaped his career path, and what the exciting new...
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The disruption may cause price hikes, hurting the US economy in the near future, a supply chain expert warns.
BALTIMORE, MD, December 21, 2023 –
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chains became mainstream news when the Suez Canal was blocked by the Ever Given, and ports were clogged with countless vessels waiting to dock, resulting in the idling of 10% of the world’s container capacity. While most disruptions have dissipated, continued challenges led to the White House giving supply chains another bump in the news cycle with its inaugural meeting of the Council on Supply Chain Resilience.
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As the FDA looks at whether a recent case of lead contamination in applesauce was economically motivated, a UCLA supply chain expert explains how to deter such suppliers.
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