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Court Backlogs Are Clogging the System – New Research Finds a Surprising Fix
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 21, 2025 – Courts around the world are struggling to keep up with growing caseloads, leaving individuals and businesses waiting months – sometimes years – for resolution. But a new study in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management has uncovered a surprisingly simple way to speed up the system that doesn’t require hiring more judges.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Tech @ Work explores Editor's Cut on Healthcare

Nashville Post, December 13, 2016

Dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and Vice President of Publications for INFORMS, Eric Johnson is the curator of “INFORMS Editor’s Cut: Healthcare in the Age of Analytics,” a website that pools research papers and articles as well as podcasts and videos examining how the use of data is changing the provision of and the policies behind health care.

INFORMS member contributions selected for "40 Under 40"

Knoxville News Sentinel, January 2, 2017

Vice President of Business Analytics of Regal Entertainment Group and INFORMS member Matt Carr was selected for the Knoxville Sentinel's top "40 Under 40" for his role in helping Regal grow from being a company without a formalized analytics group to one that makes decisions and pursues strategies based on actionable data analysis.

In bots we distrust

Boston Globe, December 31, 2016

In an upcoming issue of the INFORMS journal Management Science, a study conducted by three business professors explores a phenomenon called “algorithm aversion,” which is an irrational distrust of computer algorithms, despite their ability to outperform humans on many tasks, from selecting baseball recruits to diagnosing illness.

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