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YouTube Influencers: Gaming’s Best Friend or Worst Enemy?
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BALTIMORE, MD, March 14, 2025 – YouTube influencers are shaping the gaming industry in unexpected ways, and a new study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science uncovers the surprising truth: Although influencers can drive massive engagement with video games, they might also be costing game developers millions in lost sales.

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The 3 biggest things to know about a potential U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal
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Contentious minerals deal has sparked a war of words between Trump and Zelensky, and could be announced later this week

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How tariffs can hurt American supply chains | GUEST COMMENTARY
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Americans have probably heard the word “tariffs” more in the past month than in the past four years — and for good reason. Tariffs are central to President Donald Trump’s economic playbook, despite opposition from mainstream economists and trade experts

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One in six universities worldwide led by a woman

One in six universities worldwide led by a woman

Times Higher Education, June 27, 2019

The lengths to which women still have to go to break the glass ceiling in higher education are laid bare by new data which show that just one in six universities globally has a female leader.

University of Maryland Medical Center received the first drone-delivered organ used for transplant

University of Maryland Medical Center received the first drone-delivered organ used for transplant

Technically Baltimore, April 29, 2019

University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore was the site of the drone delivery of an organ used in a transplant, officials said. The flight took place April 19. Beginning at 1 a.m., a kidney was flown for about 10 minutes, covering a distance of 2.6 miles across the city to UMMC. With a scheduled operation time for 5 a.m., the organ was then successfully transplanted into a patient with kidney failure. The team behind the effort believes use of unmanned vehicles can expand access to donor organs.

The maths problem that could bring the world to a halt

The maths problem that could bring the world to a halt

BBC: Future Now, June 9, 2019

Warren Powell, Oxford University engineer and INFORMS member, discusses dynamic resource allocation and the impact advances in operations research tools can have in addressing allocation issues on a global level. 

AI keeps Amazon warehouses humming

AI keeps Amazon warehouses humming

Amazon News, June 5, 2019

Russell Allgor, chief scientist for Worldwide Operations at Amazon and INFORMS member, shares how the people who work in Amazon’s fulfillment centers work with the systems guided by artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver customer orders in the most efficient way possible. 

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