IT pros with MBAs earn 46 percent more, says Management Insights study

• Foreign Investments of U.S. Individual Investors: Causes and Consequences by Warren Bailey, Alok Kumar, David Ng

• The Sound of Silence in Online Feedback: Estimating Trading Risks in the Presence of Reporting Bias by Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Charles A. Wood

• Online Consumer Review: Word-of-Mouth as a New Element of Marketing Communication Mix by Yubo Chen, Jinhong Xie

• The Predictive Power of Three Prominent Tournament Formats by Dmitry Ryvkin, Adreas Ortmann

• Corporate Venturing, Allocation of Talent, and Competition for Star Managers by Jean-Etienne de Bettignies, Gilles H. Chemla

• Pricing and Operational Recourse in Coproduction Systems by Brian Tomlin, Yimin Wang

• A Simultaneous Model of Consumer Brand Choice and Negotiated Price by Yuxin Chen, Sha Yang, Ying Zhao

• Revenue Management of Callable Products by Guillermo Gallego, S. G. Kou, Robert Phillips

• Scheduling Arrivals to Queues: a Single-Server Model with No-Shows by Refael Hassin, Sharon Mendel

• Incorporating Asymmetric Distributional Information in Robust Value-at-Risk Optimization by Karthik Natarajan, Dessislava A. Pachamanova, Melvyn Sim

• Mean Variance Vulnerability by Thomas Eichner

• Allocation Models and Heuristics for the Outsourcing of Repairs for a Dynamic Warranty Population by Li Ding, Kevin D. Glazebrook, Christopher Kirkbride

• Customized Bundle Pricing for Information Goods: A Nonlinear Mixed Integer Programming Approach by Shin-yi Wu, Lorin M. Hitt, Pei-yu Chen, G. Anandalingam

• Revisiting “Retailer- vs. Vendor-Managed Inventory and Brand Competition” by Hag-Soo Kim

INFORMS journals are strongly cited in Journal Citation Reports, an industry source. In the JCR subject category “operations research and management science,” Management Science ranked in the top 10 along with two other INFORMS journals.

The special MBA issue published by Business Week includes Management Science and two other INFORMS journals in its list of 20 top academic journals that are used to evaluate business school programs. Financial Times includes Management Science and four other INFORMS journals in its list of academic journals used to evaluate MBA programs.

About INFORMS

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is www.informs.org. More information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org.