Today's most sophisticated manufacturers produce immense quantities of complex goods in rapid response to fast-evolving near-term demand. To maintain high productivity under such circumstances, they schedule and staff large bodies of workers to efficiently dispatch highly variable workloads....

Product reliability is a key concern for manufacturers. We examine a significant but under-recognized determinant of product reliability: the rate of workers quitting from the product's assembly line, or its worker turnover. While modern manufacturers make extensive efforts to control defects...

The prescription drug market -- Proposed solutions for rising drug prices -- Measuring the value of prescription drugs -- Measuring drug value : whose job is it anyway? -- Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) -- Other US value assessment frameworks -- Do drugs for special...