Operations, Information and Decisions Papers
Submissions from 2016
Reminders through Association, Todd Rogers and Katherine L. Milkman
Political Affiliation Affects Adaptation to Climate Risks: Evidence from New York City, W. J. Wouter Botzen, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Howard Kunreuther, Hans de Moel, and Jeroen C.J.H Aerts
Submissions from 2015
The Impact of Time at Work and Time off From Work on Rule Compliance: The Case of Hand Hygiene in Healthcare, Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman, David. A. Holfman, and Bradly. R. Staats
Submissions from 2014
Optimal Hiring and Retention Policies for Heterogeneous Workers Who Learn, Alessandro Arlotto, Stephen E. Chick, and Noah F. Gans
Markov Decision Problems Where Means Bound Variances, Alessandro Arlotto, Noah Gans, and John M. Steele
Optimal Credit Swap Portfolios, Kay Giesecke, Baeho Kim, Jack Kim, and Gerry Tsoukalas
Will the Global Village Fracture Into Tribes? Recommender Systems and Their Effects on Consumer Fragmentation, Kartik Hosanagar, Daniel M Fleder, Dokyun Lee, and Andreas Buja
Aiding Decision Making to Reduce the Impacts of Climate Change, Howard Kunreuther
Holding the Hunger Games Hostage at the Gym: An Evaluation of Temptation Bundling, Katherine L. Milkman, Julia A. Minson, and Kevin. G. Volpp
p-Curve and Effect Size Correcting for Publication Bias Using Only Significant Results, Uri Simonsohn, Leif D. Nelson, and Joseph P. Simmons
P-curve: A Key to The File Drawer, Uri Simonsohn, Leif. D. Nelson, and Joseph. P. Simmons
When Does the Devil Make Work? An Empirical Study of the Impact of Workload on Worker Productivity, Tom F. Tan and Serguei Netessine
Submissions from 2013
Lessons Learned about Public Health from Online Crowd Surveillance, Shawndra Hill, Raina Merchant, and Lyle Ungar
Risk Management and Climate Change, Howard Kunreuther, Geoffrey Heal, Myles Allen, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christopher B. Field, and Gary Yohe
Insuring Future Climate Catastrophes, Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, and Nicola Ranger
Mathematical and Quantitative Methods, Cade Massey
The Loser's Curse: Decision Making and Market Efficiency in the National Football League Draft, Cade Massey and Richard H. Thaler
Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity Among Professionals, Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L. Milkman
Catastrophe Risk Models for Evaluating Disaster Risk Reduction Investments in Developing Countries, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Howard Kunreuther, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Reinhard Mechler, Robert Muir-Wood, Nicola Ranger, Pantea Vaziri, and Michael Young
A Systematic Martingale Construction With Applications to Permutation Inequalities, Vladimir Pozdnyakov and John M. Steele
The Imbibing Idiot Bias: Consuming Alcohol Can be Hazardous to Your (Perceived) Intelligence, Scott I. Rick and Maurice E Schweitzer
The Cheater’s High: The Unexpected Affective Benefits of Unethical Behavior, Nicole. E. Ruedy, Celia Moore, Francesca Gino, and Maurice. E. Schweitzer
Submissions from 2012
Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, Human Resource Analytics, and Information Technology, Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Lynn Wu
Product Performance Based Business Models: A Service Based Perspective, Morris. A. Cohen
Correcting the Past: Failures to Replicate Psi, Jeff Galak, Robyn. A. LeBoeuf, Leif. D. Nelson, and Joseph. P. Simmons
Designing Ranking Systems for Hotels on Travel Search Engines by Mining User-Generated and Crowdsourced Content, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, and Beibei Li
Anxiety, Advice, and the Ability to Discern: Feeling Anxious Motivates Individuals to Seek and Use Advice, Francesca Gino, Alison. W. Brooks, and Maurice. E. Schweitzer
Impact of Performance-Based Contracting on Product Reliability: An Empirical Analysis, Jose A. Guajardo, Morris A. Cohen, Sang-Hyun Kim, and Serguei Netessine
Impact of Performance - B ased Contracting on Product Reliability : An Empirical Analysis, Jose Guajardo, Morris. A. Cohen, and Serguie Netessine
The Impact of Personal Experience on Behavior: Evidence From Video-Rental Fines, Michael P. Haselhuhn, Devin G. Pope, Maurice. E. Schweitzer, and Peter Fishman
Cooperative Cashing? An Economic Analysis of Document Duplication in Cooperati4ve Web Caching, kartik Hosanagar and Yong Tan
Accumulating a Portfolio of Experience: The Effect of Focal and Related Experience on Surgeon Performance, Diwas Singh Kc and Bradly R. Staats
An Econometric Analysis of Patient Flows in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Diwas Singh Kc and Christian Terwiesch
Single-Year and Multi-year Insurance Policies in a Competitive Market, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Howard Kunreuther, and Chieh Ou-Yang
Price Discrimination in Service Industries, Anja Lambrecht, Katja Seim, Naufel Vilcassim, Amar Cheema, Yuxin Chen, Gregory S. Crawford, kartik Hosanagar, Raghuram Iyengar, Oded Koenigsberg, Robin Lee, Eugenio J. Miravete, and Ozge Sahin
Walking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation, Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman, and Markus Noth
Unsure What the Future Will Bring? You May Overindulge: Uncertainty Increases the Appeal of Wants Over Shoulds, Katherine L. Milkman
Protective Measures, Personal Experience, and the Affective Psychology of Time, Ellen Peters, Howard Kunreuther, Namika Sagara, Paul Slovic, and Dan R. Schley
Selling to Conspicuous Consumers: Pricing, Production, and Sourcing Decisions, Necati Tereyağoğlu and Senthil K. Veeraraghavan
Measuring Seat Value in Stadiums and Theaters, Senthil K. Veeraraghavan and Ramnath Vaidyanathan
Submissions from 2011
Forest Management under Uncertainty, Antonio Alonso-Ayuso, Laureano F. Escudero, Monique Guignard, Martín Quinteros, and Andres Weintraub
Quality–Speed Conundrum: Trade-offs in Customer-Intensive Services, Krishnan S. Anand, M F. Pac, and Senthil K. Veeraraghavan
Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews, Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose, and Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis
Optimal Sequential Selection of a Unimodal Subsequence of a Random Sequence, Alessandro Arlotto and John. M. Steele
Estimating the Operational Impact of Container Inspections at International Ports, Nitin Bakshi, Stephen E. Flynn, and Noah F. Gans
A System for De-Identifying Medical Message Board Text, Adrian Benton, Shawndra Hill, Lyle Ungar, Annie Chung, Charles Leonard, Cristin Freeman, and John. H. Holmes
Identifying Potential Adverse Effects Using the Web: A New Approach to Medical Hypothesis Generation, Adrian Benton, Lyle Ungar, Shawndra Hill, Sean Hennessy, Jun Mao, Annie Chung, Charles E. Leonard, and John H. Holmes
Using Satellite Images for Drought Monitoring: A Knowledge Discovery Approach, Getachew Berhan, Shawndra Hill, Tsegaye Tadesse, and Solomon Atnafu
Can Nervous Nelly Negotiate? How Anxiety Causes Negotiators to Make Low First Offers, Exit Early, and Earn Less Profit, Alison Wood Brooks and Maurice E Schweitzer
Is Imprecise Knowledge Better Than Conflicting Expertise? Evidence From Insurers’ Decisions in the United States, Laure Cabantous, Denis Hilton, Howard Kunreuther, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
Pricing Services Subject to Congestion: Charge Per-Use Fees or Sell Subscriptions?, Gerard. P. Cachon and Pnina Feldman
The Value of Fast Fashion: Quick Response, Enhanced Design, and Strategic Consumer Behavior, Gerard. P. Cachon and Robert Swinney
The Jordan Canonical Form for a Class of Zero–One Matrices, David A. Cardon and Bradford Tuckfield
Minimum Description Length Penalization for Group and Multi-Task Sparse Learning, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Dean Foster, and Lyle Ungar
An Empirical Analysis of User Content Generation and Usage Behavior on the Mobile Internet, Anindya Ghose and Sang P. Han
Natural Supplements for H1N1 Influenza: Retrospective Observational Infodemiology Study of Information and Search Activity on the Internet, Shawndra Hill, Jun Mao, Lyle Ungar, Sean Hennessy, Charles. E. Leonard, and John. H. Holmes
Expert Stock Picker: The Wisdom of (Experts in) Crowds, Shawndra Hill and Noah Ready-Campbell
Usercentric Operational Decision Making in Distributed Information Retrieval, kartik Hosanagar
TECHNICAL NOTE—Robust Newsvendor Competition Under Asymmetric Information, Houyuan Jiang, Serguei Netessine, and Sergei Savin
The Effects of Focus on Performance: Evidence from California Hospitals, Diwas Singh KC and Christian Terwiesch
On the Production and Ramification of Cooperation: The Cooperation Afforder With Framing Hypothesis, Steven. O. Kimbrough
Hope Over Experience Desirability and the Persistence of Optimism, Cade Massey, Joseph P. Simmons, and David A. Armor
A Policy Maker’s Dilemma: Preventing Terrorism or Preventing Blame, A. Peter McGraw, Alexander Todorov, and Howard Kunreuther
Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates, Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C Madrian
Collaborative Filtering in Social Tagging Systems Based on Joint Item-Tag Recommendations, Jing Peng, Daniel Zeng, Huimin Zhao, and Fei-yue Wang
Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakes, Devin G. Pope and Maurice E Schweitzer
Round Numbers as Goals Evidence From Baseball, SAT Takers, and the Lab, Devin Pope and Uri Simonsohn
Early Biometric Lag in the Prediction of Small for Gestational Age Neonates and Preeclampsia, Nadav Schwartz, Cara Pessel, Jaclyn Coletta, Abba M Krieger, and Ilan E Timor-Tritsch
Intuitive Biases in Choice Versus Estimation: Implications for the Wisdom of Crowds, Joseph P. Simmons, Lief D. Nelson, Jeffrey Galak, and Shane Fredrick
Spurious Also? Name-Similarity Effects (Implicit Egotism) in Employment Decisions, Uri Simonsohn
Spurious? Name Similarity Effects (Implicit Egotism) in Marriage, Job, and Moving Decisions, Uri Simonsohn
Capacity Investment Timing by Start-ups and Established Firms in New Markets, Robert Swinney, Gerard. P. Cachon, and Serguei Netessine
Working With Capacity limitations: Operations Management in Critical Care, Christian Terwiesch, Diwas Singh Kc, and Jeremy M. Kahn
Herding in Queues with Waiting Costs: Rationality and Regret, Senthil K. Veeraraghavan and Laurens G. Debo
Risk-Based Pricing and Risk-Reducing Effort: Does the Private Insurance Market Reduce Environmental Accidents?, Haitao Yin, Howard Kunreuther, and Matthew. W. White
Submissions from 2010
Securing the Containerized Supply Chain: Analysis of Government Incentives for Private Investment, Nitin Bakshi and Noah Gans
Testing the Validity of a Demand Model: An Operations Perspective, Omar Besbes and Robert Phillips
Competing Manufacturers in a Retail Supply Chain: On Contractual Form and Coordination, Gerard. P. Cachon and Abdullah Gurhan Kok
Drivers of Finished Goods Inventory in the U.S. Automobile Industry, Gerard. P. Cachon and Marcelo Olivares
Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea, Karan Girotra, Christian Terwiesch, and Karl Ulrich
How Implicit Beliefs Influence Trust Recovery, Michael P. Haselhuhn, Maurice E. Schweitzer, and Alison M. Wood
Social Reinforcement: Cascades, Entrapment, and Tipping, Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther
Diffusion Models for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Media Distribution: On the Impact of Decentralized, Constrained Supply, kartik Hosanagar, Peng Han, and Yong Tan
Revenue Management with Strategic Customers: Last-Minute Selling and Opaque Selling, Kinshuk Jerath, Serguei Netessine, and Senthil K. Veeraraghavan
Effective Heuristic Methods for Finding Non-Optimal Solutions of Interest in Constrained Optimization Models, Steven. O. Kimbrough, Ann Kuo, and Hoong. C. Lau
Contracting for Infrequent Restoration and Recovery of Mission-Critical Systems, Sang-Hyun Kim, Morris A. Cohen, and Serguei Netessine
I’ll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time, Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman
Structural Estimation of the Effect of Out-of-Stocks, Andrés Musalem, Marcelo Olivares, Eric. T. Bradlow, Christian Terwiesch, and Daniel Corsten
CFUI: Collaborative Filtering With Unlabeled Items, Jing Peng, Daniel D. Zeng, Bing Liu, and Huimin Zhao
Information Sharing in a Long-Term Supply Chain Relationship: The Role of Customer Review Strategy, Zhong J. Ren, Morris Cohen, Teck Hua Ho, and Christian Terwiesch
Fostering IPv6 Migration Through Network Quality Differentials, Guerin Roch and kartik Hosanagar
In the Moment: The Effect of Mindfulness on Ethical Decision Making, Nicole E. Ruedy and Maurice E Schweitzer
Information Technology and Productivity Growth: German Trends and OECD Comparisons, Adam Saunders
Intertemporal Pricing and Consumer Stockpiling, Xuanming Su
Optimal Pricing with Speculators and Strategic Consumers, Xuanming Su
Term-End Exam Scheduling at United States Military Academy/West Point, Siqun Wang, Michael Bussieck, Monique Guignard, and Alexander Meeraus
Analyzing the Relationship Between Organic and Sponsored Search Advertising: Positive, Negative, or Zero Interdependence?, Sha Yang and Anindya Ghose
Submissions from 2009
Revenue Optimization for a Make-to-Order Queue in an Uncertain Market Environment, Omar Besbes and Costis Maglaras
Going Bunkers: The Joint Route Selection and Refueling Problem, Omar Besbes and Sergei Savin