A group purchasing organization (GPO) aggregates healthcare providers' demands to negotiate better deals on their behalf with medicine manufacturers, which is believed to be helpful in reducing procurement cost. However, this belief has typically been based on a one-time procurement context...

We study the problem of a cloud service provider (e.g., Amazon Web services) selling cloud services to a buyer (e.g., Uber) under congestion. Cloud congestion has received significant attention in recent years, leading to reduced service quality and a potential loss of customers (e.g., riders...

Recently, the disruptive impact of blockchain technology on the digital advertising industry has caught widespread attention. However, advertisers are uncertain of whether to adopt the blockchain, and it is unclear how publishers would allocate their spots facing this new technology. Although...

Public cloud capacity providers offer various pricing models namely, on-demand capacity instances, reserved capacity instances, and a hybrid of these two pricing models. The buyer firms seeking cloud solutions not only source their requirements from the public cloud providers but also invest in...

With more customers purchasing pre-owned or used products in the apparel industry, firms are increasingly adopting resale based business models generally through either a:(i) trade-in with a resale program, where a firm offers a trade-in discount on a new product and resells the traded-in...