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New Research Showcases Pivotal Shift Toward Energy Democracy
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BALTIMORE, MD, November 12, 2024 – New research in the INFORMS journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management is guiding the development of more inclusive and efficient electricity markets. The work demonstrates how aggregating small-scale, distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar panels can effectively balance the power of large utility companies.

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Exclusive: The Russian billionaires whose chemical factories fuel Russia's war machine
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LONDON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Chemicals factories founded or owned by some of Russia's wealthiest men are supplying ingredients to plants that manufacture explosives used by Moscow's military during the war in Ukraine, an analysis of railway and financial data shows.

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AI Hallucinations? Two Brains Are Better Than One
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A number of startups and cloud service providers are starting to offer tools for monitoring, evaluating, and correcting problems with generative AI in the hope of eliminating errors, hallucinations, and other systemic problems associated with this technology.

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Decision Science Digest: March 29, 2023

Decision Science Digest: March 29, 2023

News Release, March 29, 2023

BALTIMORE, MD, March 29, 2023 –

 EDITOR’S NOTE: Decision Science Digest is a periodic communique highlighting recent peer-reviewed research published by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, across its 17 journals. This issue highlights four press releases based on the findings of new peer-reviewed articles.

  • Online Auction Sales Determined by Length of Time Item is Available, Length of Item Description (INFORMS journal Information Systems Research)
  • Setting Healthy Consumption Goals Isn’t a Losing Scenario for Businesses: While it May Reduce Sales, Profits Increase (INFORMS journal Management Science)
  • Saving Up or Cashing Out: The Impact Employer Decisions Have on Employee Retirement Decisions (INFORMS journal Marketing Science)
  • New Research Looks at the Ripple Effects of Ads on Presidential Elections (INFORMS journal Management Science)
WATCH: Advice for filling out your NCAA bracket

WATCH: Advice for filling out your NCAA bracket

Channel 3000, March 15, 2023

UW-Madison professor of industrial and systems engineering and bracketologist Laura Albert joins Live at Four to talk about how to fill out your bracket for this year's NCAA tournament.

An experiment at a CPA firm revealed how much training through play achieves results

An experiment at a CPA firm revealed how much training through play achieves results

Time News, March 21, 2023

Organizational training is not a fun process or a game, but maybe it should be that way. Most of us have used (often reluctantly) corporate learning systems, such as skimming through the 50 slides of PowerPoint presentations. A new study by the CPA firm KPMG shows that training through game techniques done correctly – lessons that are conducted carefully and over time, incorporating elements such as progress through challenges and different levels, immediate feedback, points and competition – can significantly improve employee performance.

Business names and changes for the week of March 19, 2023

Business names and changes for the week of March 19, 2023

The Roanoke Times, March 19, 2023

Christopher “Topher” Merrill has been appointed to the Roanoke College Board of Trustees. The board also granted emeritus status to retired Roanoke College registrar Leah Russell, and former board of trustees members David L. Guy and John E. Lang.

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