American Factory (2019)

Great documentary to watch on factory operations, worker safety, labor and class struggle, and culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36QeKOJ2Fc

(Serious) games to teach Project Management

PM Zone GamePlan (see also here) Will add more as soon as I discover them. Curious to know of any related games to teach Innovation or Ops.

Paper on Transportation Science (or see the working version here) Insights here: https://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/News-Room/Press-Releases/New-Research-Says-Changes-in-Driver-Shifts-and-Pick-up-Choices-for-Food-Delivery-Services-Can-Boost-Profits “By introducing a minimum guaranteed hourly pay, platforms can gain more reliability among drivers and the benefits seem to outweigh the minimal cost increase,” said Savelsbergh. “A guaranteed pay rate of $15 an hour is 1.5 times the payment for a delivery … Continue reading Food delivery optimization

For any sequence of RVs X1,...,Xn the following holds: E[max{X1, ..., Xn}] >= max{E[X1], ..., E[Xn]} (*) Proof. We have that max{X1, ..., Xn} >= Xi for all i. Thus, this holds in expectation as well, i.e. E[max{X1, ..., Xn}] >= E[Xi] for all i. Since this holds for all i, it holds for … Continue reading The expectation of the maximum of RVs is greater or equal to the maximum of the expectations

Very nice article mentioning Q&A forums similar to my paper idea: Morgan and Wang (CMR 2010) - Tournaments for Ideas See also this Article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Answers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers