Background: The key performance index for the container terminals is the vessel berthing time which is highly affected by the scheduling of the different handling equipment. Proper integrated scheduling of the handling equipment is crucial, especially in automated container terminals, where all...

We empirically analyze how managerial overrides to a commercial algorithm that forecasts demand and schedules labor affect store performance. We analyze administrative data from a large grocery retailer that utilizes a commercial algorithm to forecast demand and schedule labor across all their...

We examine the response of physicians to a series of changes in their national fee schedule designed to support the provision of higher quality healthcare. We evaluate the impact of these changes on total medical expenditures, the volume of services, and fees charged in a setting where doctors...

We find evidence that scheduled insider trades exhibit fortunate timing. In a sample of scheduled (10b5-1 transactions) routine sales by insiders that occur between 2015 and 2020, we find evidence of an increased incidence of favorable earnings-related news occurring in the weeks leading up to...

In the context of job scheduling, the time required to complete a task is related not only to the intrinsic difficulty of the task, but also to the operator's willingness to speed up (or slow down) its execution. In fact, service operators are sometimes authorized to flexibly calibrate job...

Since Daniel Steele’s 1975 seminal publication on schedule nervousness, academic researchers and corporate operations alike have deepened and expanded related research, both with direct intent to examine schedule nervousness (a.k.a. variation, volatility, or instability) or tangentially in...

Advertisement scheduling is a daily essential operational process in the television business. Efficient distribution of viewers among advertisers allows the television network to satisfy contracts and increase ad sale revenues. Ad scheduling is a challenging multi-period, mixed-integer...

We define a new solution concept named ``Bayesian Nash equilibrium with schedules" as one in which each player, conditional on her own type, chooses a strategy over an expanded action space of contingent schedules on other players' realized actions. This solution concept is a natural extension...