Manufacturers and distributors of expensive implants and other medical supplies often require buyers to sign non-disclosure agreements treating all information concerning negotiated prices as trade secrets. Such agreements make it difficult for hospitals to obtain accurate pricing benchmarks. To...

Although uncertainty is rife in many project management contexts, little is know about adaptively optimizing project schedules. We formulate the problem of adaptively optimizing the expected present value of a project's cash flow, and we show that it is practical to perform the optimization. The...

This paper contributes to the supply chain contracts literature in economics and operations by performing qualitative sensitivity analysis on a wholesale price contract in a two-echelon supply chain setting. It is assumed that the upstream supplier has complete information about the costs and...

This paper contributes to the supply chain contracts literature in economics and operations by performing qualitative sensitivity analysis of a wholesale price contract in a two-echelon supply chain setting. Order-theory tools are used to derive sufficient conditions for monotonicity of contract...