The increasing use of OR models and frameworks for evaluating policy alternatives and conducting impact studies is a welcome sign of the convergence of Operations Research/Operations Management (OR/OM) research, data analytics, and policy studies. This special issue aims to recognize and publish...

In this article, we study threshold-based sales-force incentives and their impact on a dealer's optimal effort. A phenomenon, observed in practice is that the dealer exerts a large effort toward the end of the incentive period to boost sales and reach the threshold to make additional profits. In...

In this paper, we describe an important optimization problem arising in airline revenue management systems. The problem is to select the maximum number of average fare data while keeping the selected data in strict hierarchical order. We first formulate the problem mathematically using 0-1...

We examine the problem of identifying an optimal set of items to put up for sale (out of a larger set) in simultaneous sealed-bid auctions when pre-bidding item inspection or participation is costly, and the bidders' inspection budgets are limited. We first discuss how there can be uncertainty...

Airlines are continually faced with the challenge of efficient utilization of their cockpit crew resources. In addition to regular flying crews, airlines maintain significant reserve staffing levels to meet contractual obligations and provide smooth daily operations. Most airlines also depend on...

We consider a two-echelon supply chain with a manufacturer supplying to multiple downstream retailers engaged in differentiated Cournot competition. Each retailer has private information about uncertain demand. The manufacturer is the Stackelberg leader who sets the contract terms with the...

The multi-objective flight instructor scheduling problem is an optimization problem that schedules instructors to teach a set of pilot training events. The objectives of the problem are to minimize labor cost, maximize workload consistency and maximize flight instructor satisfaction of their...

We investigate whether and to what extent financial markets value and respond to Operations Management (OM) related information in firm communications directed toward financial market participants. We create and use a novel construct, called ``stated OM focus", to mine the incidence of and...

Propagation of disruptions across networks is a feature of the modern economy. An example of disruption propagation is in airline networks where disruptions, like hurricanes, cause delays which propagate through the network. Modeling the propagation of delays in airlines is difficult due to the...

We consider a multi-item VCG auction setting where a bidder’s valuation of a bundle of items is additive, i.e., the sum of the individual item valuations in the bundle. We propose a direct mechanism, called the Pairwise Bundler Auction (PBA), where bidders report their individual item...