To stay competitive, high-technology manufacturers (HTMs), such as Apple and Intel, not only frequently source new technologies from their suppliers, but also financially support the development of these new technologies into component products or production tools. We consider an HTM that can...

The adoptions of electric vehicles (EVs) rely on the availability of charging infrastructures which are often built by third-party service providers (SPs) in large cities. However, profit-maximizing SPs might locate the piles disproportionally in suburbs versus downtown due to lower costs, which...

In this paper, we study the problem of managing limited retail shelf or storage space for basic products by considering two inventory management strategies: space dedication and space sharing. When space is dedicated to each product, there is more flexibility in planning as different products...

Procurement control (PC) is a practice that the buyer controls the material procurement of the supplier and at the same time takes the inventory risk from the supplier. In this paper we compare PC with a decentralized contracting practice (DC) in the setting of a risk-neutral buyer cooperating...

Offering consumers the option of buying extended warranties when selling durable consumer goods is a relatively new practice in Chinese industry. In this paper, we try to explore this practice in a setting that a monopolist sells a kind of product via a retailer, the channel members try to...

In several transportation systems, vehicles can choose where to meet customers rather than stopping in fixed locations. This added flexibility, however, requires coordination between vehicles and customers that adds complexity to routing operations. This paper develops scalable algorithms to...

This paper investigates tactical investment strategies for investors to survive financial crises. Compared with the buy-and-hold strategy, the buy-and-sell strategy is much more effective in mitigating downside risk before, during, and after a crisis by restricting the left-tail volatility of...