Web personalization can achieve two business goals: increased advertising revenue and
increased sales revenue. The realization of the two goals is related to two kinds of user …

Abstract Behavioral Operations Management investigates new developments around
behavioral components—" people issues"—in operations management (OM). While these" …

This paper presents new data on entrepreneurs' self-described decision processes when
choosing where to locate, based on scripted interviews with business owners. Consideration …

The Vaccine and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee meets at least once a year
to decide the composition of seasonal influenza vaccine in the United States. Past evidence …

Previous research reported conflicting results concerning the influence of depression on
cognitive task performance. Whereas some studies reported that depression enhances …

We study a problem of selling a fixed number of goods over a finite and known horizon. After
presenting a procedure for computing optimal decision policies and some numerical results …

In the classical secretary problem, one attempts to find the maximum of an unknown and
unlearnable distribution through sequential search. In many real-world searches, however …

We take a unifying approach to single selection optimal stopping problems with random
arrival order and independent sampling of items. In the problem we consider, a decision …

There are many ways to measure how people manage risk when they make decisions. A
standard approach is to measure risk propensity using self-report questionnaires. An …

Choosing the right subset from a set of candidate projects is a key driver of success and
failure in new product development (NPD). In many cases, managers make these decisions …