Problem definition: We consider opportunities for cooperation at the supply level between two firms that are rivals in the end-product market. One of our firms is vertically integrated (VI), has in-house production capabilities, and may also supply its rival. The other is a downstream...

Problem definition: We consider opportunities for cooperation at the supply level between two firms that are rivals in the end-product market. One of our firms is vertically integrated (VI), has in-house production capabilities, and may also supply its rival. The other is a downstream...

We compare the performance of two approaches for finding the optimal set of products to display to customers landing on Alibaba's two online marketplaces, Tmall and Taobao. Both approaches were placed online simultaneously and tested on real customers for one week. The first approach we test is...

In this paper, we consider an assortment optimization problem in which a platform mustchoose pairwise disjoint sets of assortments to offer across a series of T stages. Arrivingcustomers begin their search process in the first stage and progress sequentially throughthe stages until their...

In this paper, we introduce the Multi-Purchase Multinomial Logit choice model, which extends the random utility maximization framework of the classical Multinomial Logit model to a multiple-purchase setting. In this model, customers sample random utilities for each offered product as in the...