News Releases

BALTIMORE, MD, November 3, 2022 – At a campaign event in the midst of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the chief executive officer of Goya, a large Latin food brand, publicly praised and endorsed then-president Donald Trump. The comments triggered both a boycott and a counter “buycott” movement in support of the brand.

BALTIMORE, MD, October 26, 2022 – New research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and University of Washington, finds a 10% increase in TV product placement for cigarettes increases sales by 2% for the tobacco brand shown on-screen. Furthermore, it has the same effect on its direct competitors’ sales as well.

BALTIMORE, MD, October 13, 2022 – In 2016, Chile introduced the gradual implementation of a comprehensive and mandatory food labeling law that was designed to warn consumers of the risks of unhealthy foods. To do so, the law required that if a product contained excessive amounts of certain nutrients (such as sugar), which are considered unhealthful if consumed in large quantities, the product should display mandatory warning labels on the packaging. Moreover, several other countries have already adopted these new warning labels.

New members of the INFORMS Board of Directors are elected to positions of Treasurer, Vice President of Education, Vice President of Meetings, Vice President of Publications, Vice President of Technology Strategy, and Vice President of Societies and Sections.

BALTIMORE, MD, October 6, 2022 – INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, announced that Julie Swann, Ph.D., has been elected the 2024 INFORMS President. Swann, who is the A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor and head of the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University, will join the INFORMS Board of Directors as president-elect in January 2023 and will then serve as president and past president in 2024 and 2025, respectively.

BALTIMORE, MD, September 9, 2022 – Can you really trust that online product review before you make a purchase decision? New research has found that the practice of faking online product reviews may be more pervasive than you think.

BALTIMORE, MD, September 8, 2022 – Online dating is one of the top ways people meet in 2022. That said, matchmaking – online or offline – is never a perfect process. New research published in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management showcases a new algorithm to increase dating site matches by analyzing individual user preferences and whether the user currently has a lot of matches.

BALTIMORE, MD, August 2, 2022 – In overwhelming bipartisan fashion, the U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the “Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act,” (H.R. 3588) which, if enacted, would modernize STEM education in the United States. The bill passed by a vote of 323 to 92. The legislation now awaits Senate action on its identical companion bill (S. 1839), which was introduced by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

BALTIMORE, MD, July 27, 2022 – Although most decisions in life are made by individuals themselves, many are influenced by others such as principals, managers, parents or colleagues. New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that women take part in competitive environments more when they are making decisions for other people rather than themselves.

BALTIMORE, MD, July 26, 2022 – New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that firms that have experienced data breaches intentionally stage the timing of such announcements around other significant breaking news as a means of reducing media coverage and minimizing public attention.