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New Research Shows How Inclusive Workplaces Can Empower Black Employees to Thrive
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BALTIMORE, MD, February 19, 2025 – A groundbreaking study in the INFORMS journal Organization Science has revealed how workplaces can better support Black employees, ensuring they feel empowered to express their true selves. Conducted by a team of researchers from leading universities, the study highlights the transformative power of inclusive environments where authenticity and mutual understanding are valued.

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OpenAI’s New Stargate Project and China’s DeepSeek: Goliath vs. David
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On Jan. 21, OpenAI launched the $500 billion Stargate Project with partners like Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Oracle. This initiative aimed to secure American AI leadership, create jobs, and boost the economy. Initially, this boosted the stock prices of these companies.

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Resign or stay? Federal workers are on the clock — Here’s how decision-analysis tools can help
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Living in limbo: An estimated 2 million U. S. federal employees were thrust into a decision they did not seek to make. A deadline from the Trump Administration was halted last week, and is now in the hands of a judge. When a deadline is set those employees will have to make a high-stakes choice: Take a buyout and resign, or they can choose to stay in an uncertain job environment, including the possibility of being laid-off or having significant changes in work duties or leave with a buyout. This current reprieve gives these federal employees a little more time, but the fundamental question for each of them remains: What’s the right move for your career and future?

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The most impactful technologies coming to retail

The most impactful technologies coming to retail

Retail Touch Points, April 11, 2017

Suresh Acharya, INFORMS member and head of JDA Labs, discusses how, thanks to a shift in focus from "stuff" to "people," data science and machine learning are poised to take retail to new levels of efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction.

Pure Technologies Presents at Informs Analytics 2017

Pure Technologies Presents at Informs Analytics 2017

Yahoo! Finanance, April 3, 2017

Pure Technologies Ltd. will present to a group of operational research and management experts on the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority's ("DC Water") pipeline asset risk model during the 2017 Business Analytics Conference, hosted by INFORMS, the largest society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science, and analytics. Firms attending Analytics 2017 include Amazon, Boeing, IBM and other major technology and analytical companies. Selection to present at Analytics 2017 serves as validation of Pure's advancing engineering services capabilities in delivering its Assess and AddressTM approach to utilities worldwide. 

When firms and customers share charitable responsibility, profits rise but donations fall

When firms and customers share charitable responsibility, profits rise but donations fall

News Release, April 10, 2017

CATONSVILLE, MD, April 10, 2017 – Firms sharing social responsibility for the social good with customers is generally seen as a win-win – more patronage from socially responsible customers and larger benefits to society. A forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal of Marketing Science, a leading academic marketing journal, however, questions the premise. 

How Holiday increased revenue from new leases by 10%

How Holiday increased revenue from new leases by 10%

McKnight's Senior Living, April 4, 2017

What started around 2011 as an effort to find a better way to establish appropriate unit rents has led Lake Oswego, OR-based Holiday Retirement to consistently realizing a 10% revenue increase from new leases and receiving an international award for implementing a revenue management system that was new to the senior living industry.

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