The Beer Distribution Game, one of the oldest and most widely used management simulations, is now available online as an interactive multiplayer websim.
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This case describes how leaders at Mud Bay, a chain of pet products based in Pacific Northwest, changed the way they operated their business from 2014 to 2017. They adopted a framework that included heavy investment in people with operational choices that leverage that investment by increasing produ...
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In July 2015, MaryAnn Camacho joined Quest Diagnostics’s National Customer Service (NCS) organization as its Executive Director. Quest was the leading provider of diagnostic services and solutions in the United States. Camacho was hired to turn around an organization that had gone through a complex ...
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During an event at the MIT Sloan School, MIT Sloan Professor of the Practice Zeynep Ton spoke about her recent book, “The Case for Good Jobs."
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A study by MIT Sloan Prof. Georgia Perakis found not only can consumer trends be predicted, but that they also can be used to optimize targeted promotions and improve profits by an average of 9.4%.
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In 2015, when Dan Schulman became CEO of PayPal, a digital payments company, many people thought of it as the button they clicked when paying for online purchases. In 2015, PayPal embarked on a new mission: using technology to democratize financial services. In Schulman’s words, it would “turn the ...
Students interested in pursuing doctoral studies with members of the Operations Research and Statistics Group are encouraged to apply to the Operations Research Center.
Spring 2022 research updates
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MIT Sloan Profs. Dimitris Bertsimas and Prof. Nikos Trichakis created a data-based model to improve the kidney transplant decision-making process.
