If you are into OR and Optimization this is a conference opportunity to visit Dublin: https://www.euro2019dublin.com/ See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LECA5vtOaWQ
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Marketplace Innovation Workshop 2019
The INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing Conference will be held at Stanford Graduate School of Business on June 6–7, 2019. The conference will be held in conjunction with the Marketplace Innovation Workshop, which will take place on June 4–5, 2019. Deadline for full papers: 18 February 2019. More details at: https://www.rmp2019.org/
Internal innovation contests
I am aware of this recent paper on the topic but today I realized someone actually wrote a book/thesis on this topic recently as well. This is a downloadable chapter. Case Study Developing Innovative Solutions Through Internal Crowdsourcing (MIT SMR 2017)
Google launches Dataset Search
Google aggregates data repositories across the web in the following exciting new search engine: https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch! (shared by Kashish Arora)
Two recent review papers on the state-of-the-art of Empirical Operations Management research
Terwiesch, Olivares, Staats and Gaur (2019) A Review of Empirical Operations Management over the Last Two Decades Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, forthcoming Ho, Lim, Reza and Xia (2017) Causal Inference Models in Operations Management Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 19(4): 509-525
Sustainable Operations – recent research
Here are two recent working papers: Kalkanci M., M. Rahmani, L.B. Toktay, Social Sustainability in Emerging Economies: The Role of ‘Inclusive Innovation’, working paper Huang, T. Tan, L.B. Toktay, K. Hoen, Carbon leakage: The impact of asymmetric emission regulation on technology and capacity investments, working paper and here are some recent publications related to sustainability: … Continue reading Sustainable Operations – recent research
Testing the validity of the Diff-in-Diff design when treatment timing varies (done rigorously)
Sharing a very interesting new paper on DiD methods when used with heterogeneous treatment effects: Andrew Goodman-Bacon, 2018. Differences-in-Differences with Variation in Treatment Timing, Working Paper. The paper shows how (and when) a DiD estimator can be decomposed as a weighted average of 4 simple and intuitive "2x2" average causal effects. Some of these effects may … Continue reading Testing the validity of the Diff-in-Diff design when treatment timing varies (done rigorously)
