What do you think about when you hear “operations management”? The way you answer this question likely depends on your exposure to and experience with this academic discipline, which is my area of ...

The next crisis will challenge European sovereign debts. That crisis may be bigger than even the ECB can handle without chaotic defaults, financial meltdown, or sharp inflation.

Craig Garthwaite, John Graves, Tal Gross, Zeynal Karaca, Victoria Marone, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo study the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on hospital services, with a focus ...

Having an interpretable dynamic length-of-stay (LOS) model can help hospital administrators and clinicians make better decisions and improve the quality of care. The widespread implementation of ...

To help address the rising costs of health care, we conduct a field experiment that aims to reduce the cost of supplies used in surgical procedures. Specifically, we develop an algorithm to identify ...

Say you’re trying to decide between two cars, one that’s more environmentally friendly and the other with a better safety score. Which one do you pick? People tend to choose on the basis of numbers ...