Featured Research

What’s Necessary to Coordinate Inventory Ordering and Sharing from Independent Franchisees in a Franchise Network?

Professor Rong Li and her co-authors created a model of a brand and two franchisees in two versions: either the brand decided in each period how to produce and distribute or redistribute channel inventory (centralized), or the brand adopted the disruptive OneView platform’s Inventory Management module (OVIM) and set the trade rules—including trade prices, a fixed royalty, and who pays for shipping (decentralized)

How Does Probabilistic Selling Impact the Interactions Between Manufacturers and Retailers?

Using a mathematical model, Professor Scott Fay and his co-authors found that the benefits of PS are greater in a setting where customers buy products through retailers (decentralized channel) rather than directly from manufacturers (centralized channel). Here PS mitigates the problem of inefficiently low sales that typically arises because both manufacturers and retailers impose price markups.

Incentives Help Bring Healthcare Products to Underserved Regions

Many existing health care solutions do not reach those most in need. Low- and middle-income countries, many of them in Africa, often cannot afford to pay for such life-saving products as malaria bed nets, viral load tests or contraceptives. 

In an article recently published in Production and Operations Management Professor Burak Kazaz, and his co-authors examined techniques for solving this problem.  

Racial Bias in Sourcing—and What Can Be Done to Address It

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important tool in efforts to address the racial wealth gap. But until recently, little was known about whether and to what degree racial discrimination impacts decision making in sourcing—even though the survival of small minority-owned businesses depends on their ability to win contracts from corporate buyers. Professor Aral and her co-authors tackle this issue in an article forthcoming in Production and Operations Management.

Natarajan Balasubramanian, professor of management, was appointed associate editor at Journal of Strategic Management for a three-year term.
 

Sebastian Tideman-Frappart, assistant professor of accounting, has been appointed by the European Accounting Association for a three-year term to serve on a new Standing Scientific Committee responsible for social and environmental accounting and ethical issues in accounting.
 

Guiyang Xiong, associate professor of marketing, was appointed associate editor at Service Science for a three-year term.

Kivanc Avrenli was quoted in Law360 on the ongoing issues that Boeing is experiencing with its 737 Max airplane.
 

Eunkyu Lee, professor of marketing and associate dean for global initiatives, was interviewed for a Washington Post story “A campaign to prod students into college tries a new tack: Making it simple” (Feb. 16, 2024)

Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain management practice, was quoted in the stories: “Will a Sugar Shortage Sour Your Holiday Baking?” in AARP (Dec. 11, 2023), “The top challenges in semiconductor manufacturing this year” in Manufacturing Dive (Jan. 30, 2024), “Buying Clothes in the US Is About to Get More Expensive” in Newsweek (Jan. 8, 2024), “Listeria Outbreak Linked to Cheese Leads to Recalls from Trader Joe’s, Costco” in Healthline (Feb. 9, 2024), “How the Green Energy Switch Will Affect Engineers’ Jobs” in IEEE Spectrum (Feb. 12, 2024) and “Teamsters reach tentative deal with Anheuser-Busch, likely averting strike” in the The Washington Post.  (Feb. 28, 2024).

Lynne Vincent, associate professor of management, was quoted in the CBS News article “UAW deal with Detroit’s Big 3 automakers sees pushback from workers” (Nov. 15, 2023), CNBC story “Microsoft, Uber, Dell and a brand new plan to start out each child inventory choosing” (Nov. 26, 2023), CNBC feature “The new plan to create a stock market portfolio for every child in America that’s caught Microsoft, Uber, Dell and Zillow’s attention” (Nov. 29, 2023), ABC News stories “Unions made 2023 the year of the strike. What will happen next?” (Dec. 16, 2023) and “Unions made 2023 the year of the strike. What will happen next?” (Dec. 26, 2023), and the News Nation feature “Unions projected to build on the momentum of 2023 labor strikes” (Jan. 24, 2024) and “Will Bernie Sanders’ proposed 32-hour workweek pass Congress?” in ABC News.
 

Ray Wimer, professor of retail practice, was interviewed on “Macy’s Closing 150 stores nationwide” in Yahoo.com (March 6, 2024) and “Macy’s Store Closing” in USA Today (March 20, 2024).

Willie Reddic, associate professor of accounting and associate dean for business education, was quoted in the Des Moines Register story, “Did Iowa exercise due diligence in opening door for insurance executive with checkered past?” (Dec. 14, 2023).