A framework is presented to simulate and analyze the effect of multiple business scenarios on the adoption behavior of a group of technology products. Diffusion is viewed as an emergent phenomenon that results from the interaction of consumers. An agent-based model is used in which potential...

George Church is a professor at Harvard University and founder of the personal genome project. He has patents in the fields of genome reading and writing, automation and instrumentation, and advocates open source and transparency; for example, by developing the open access next generation...

Tremendous controversy surrounds return of individual research results and incidental findings in genetic and genomic research on human participants. Researchers traditionally have not offered individual research results back to human participants. However, with increasing recognition of the...

Through a behavioral study, we investigate buyers' strategic order forecasting behavior in a multi-period setting under a forecast accuracy based allocation policy, where the supplier allocates (proportionally) more inventory to the buyer with the better order forecast accuracy in case of scarce...

"After decades of "made in China, sold in US" as the winning mantra, American and Western businesses are being forced to rethink their China strategy. In an era defined by the great power competition, business leaders are scrambling to make sense of the sudden reversal of the pro-China policy by...