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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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Your next FedEx delivery could be a pizza

Your next FedEx delivery could be a pizza

The Washington Post, February 27, 2019

FedEx has unveiled an early model of an autonomous delivery robot. The shipper is teaming up with Pizza Hut, Walmart, Walgreens and other companies on the delivery program. The initiative highlights the surging demand for speedier delivery and the race to develop autonomous technology for what’s known as the “last-mile,” or the final step of the logistics journey from warehouse or kitchen to a customer’s front door.

Prescriptive analysis in manufacturing to boost profitability

Prescriptive analysis in manufacturing to boost profitability

International Business Times, February 22, 2019

Jeffrey Camm, INFORMS Fellow and Associate Dean of Business Analytics and Inmar Presidential Chair in Analytics at the Wake Forest University School of Business, discusses the expanding role of analytics in manufacturing, including prescriptive analytics, automation and artificial intelligence. 

Real estate and workplace optimization requires more than sensors and IoT

Real estate and workplace optimization requires more than sensors and IoT

Propmodo, February 24, 2019

Jane Mather, INFORMS member and Founder and Principal of Critical Core, encourages businesses looking to improve space usage and management to look beyond new workplace software and tools, especially in complex situations, or they could be looking at millions of dollars lost. 

In the fight against human trafficking, industrial engineers can help

In the fight against human trafficking, industrial engineers can help

News @ Northeastern, February 8, 2019

Kayse Lee Maass, an INFORMS member and assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, believes engineers have tools that can help fight human trafficking. The same techniques used to model supply chains or plan media campaigns can be adapted to find ways to disrupt trafficking networks or organize support services for survivors.

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