Companies must decarbonize supply chains to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and this can create risk for investors

Published: 22 February 2023

As part of their effort to reduce emissions, large companies like McDonald’s have announced cuts to emissions from their own operations and power supply. These are known as Scope 1 and Scope 2...

Managing Airfares Under Competition: Insights from a Field Experiment

Published: 6 January 2023

Authors: Maxime C. Cohen, Alexandre Jacquillat, Juan Camilo Serpa and Michael Benborhoum Publication: Management Science, Forthcoming

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Clothing repairs and thrifting can help reduce the environmental footprint of the clothing you wear

Published: 21 December 2022

Clothing companies used to offer just a few collections each year. Today, fast fashion companies like H&M or Zara offer dozens. One way they accomplish this is by reducing the quality of their...

Excess inventory encourages steeper discounts in Black Friday sales

Published: 6 December 2022

2021 was an anti-climactic year for Black Friday sales. Global supply chains had been disrupted, inventory was very low, and demand was very high. So, retailers had little incentive to sell items...

Circular economy can help mitigate environmental impact of frenzied Black Friday shopping

Published: 2 December 2022

Black Friday offers cut-rate deals, but low prices can come with a high environmental cost. If shoppers don’t make choices wisely, their purchases could end up in the landfill.

Constrained optimization of objective functions determined from random forests

Published: 14 November 2022

Authors: Max Biggs, Rim Hariss and Georgia Perakis Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming First published online: September 2022 Abstract:

Professors Cohen, Khern-am-nuai awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

Published: 13 October 2022

Congratulations to Maxime Cohen, Professor in Retail and Operations Management and Warut Khern-am-nuai, Associate Professor in Information Systems who were awarded a 2022 SSHRC Insight Grant....

Retail power in distribution channels: A double-edged sword for upstream suppliers

Published: 26 September 2022

Authors: Yuhong He, Saibal Ray and Shuya Yin Publication: Production and Operations Management Volume 31, Issue 6, June 2022, Pages 2681 – 2694 Abstract:

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