Dealing with Detroit
Consolidating dealerships is a painful but essential step to rehabilitating the U.S. auto industry, argues Marcelo Olivares.
Business Friendships
Properly managed and nurtured, friendships with colleagues and competitors can be good business.
More Models, Fewer Models or Better Models?
How banks can profit from financial models without getting trapped in them.
Auctioning Supply Contracts
Buyers and suppliers can both gain from a procurement strategy that uses an auction to eliminate guesswork.
Supply Chain Management with Advance Supply Information
A mathematical model helps firms capitalize on advance supply information.
Rising above the herd
Research on how people form beliefs and make decisions by observing others sheds light on the tendency to follow the crowd.
The nursing shift
A queuing model for nurse staffing can cut costs and improve patient care.
Subset-Conjunctive Rules for Breast Cancer Diagnosis
A simple set of related rules can help doctors diagnose breast cancer using a less invasive type of biopsy.
Flying the frenzied skies
Flight cancellations, delays, inspection fiascos, mergers, bankruptcies — and now a checked bag fee? Garrett van Ryzin examines the airline industry’s recent ills.