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When Is Price Discrimination Profitable?

Anderson, Eric T.; James D. Dana, Jr. - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 6, pp. 980-989

relate it to many known results in the marketing, economics, and operations management literatures. …

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An Efficient Procedure for Designing Single Allocation Hub and Spoke Systems

Pirkul, Hasan; Schilling, David A. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 12-Part-2, pp. 235-235

Given the widespread use of the hub and spoke network architecture and its growing importance to competitiveness in logistics, communication, and mass transportation, there has been considerable interest by practitioners and researchers alike in finding efficient methods for designing such...

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A Capacitated Bottleneck Facility Location Problem

Dearing, P. M.; Newruck, F. C. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 11, pp. 1093-1104

is similar to that of the total cost capacitated facility location problem. Problems with a bottleneck objective function …

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An Indirect Method for the Generalized k-Median Problem Applied to Lock-Box Location

Mavrides, Lazaros P. - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 10, pp. 990-996

uncapacitated plant location problem, for which there exist many efficient methods. However, corporations are often reluctant to …

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A Trajectory Method for the Optimization of the Multi-Facility Location Problem With lp Distances

Drezner, Z.; Wesolowsky, G. O. - In: Management Science 24 (1978) 14, pp. 1507-1514

We consider the multi-facility location problem of placing m new facilities optimally among n demand points (or …

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Note--A Simple Edge Elimination Criterion in a Search for the Center of a Graph

Halpern, Jonathan - In: Management Science 25 (1979) 1, pp. 105-107

This note proposes a new edge elimination criterion in an algorithm whose purpose is to locate the center of a graph. The new criterion requites the same amount of information and computation but generates a stronger lower bound. It therefore reduces substantially the number of edges that have...

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Effects of Piracy on Quality of Information Goods

Lahiri, Atanu; Dey, Debabrata - In: Management Science 59 (2013) 1, pp. 245-264

It is commonly believed that piracy of information goods leads to lower profits, which translate to lower incentives to invest in innovation and eventually to lower-quality products. Manufacturers, policy makers, and researchers all claim that inadequate piracy enforcement efforts translate to...

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Selling to Strategic Consumers When Product Value Is Uncertain: The Value of Matching Supply and Demand

Swinney, Robert - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 10, pp. 1737-1751

We address the value of quick response production practices when selling to a forward-looking consumer population with uncertain, heterogeneous valuations for a product. Consumers have the option of purchasing the product early, before its value has been learned, or delaying the purchase...

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Selling to Conspicuous Consumers: Pricing, Production, and Sourcing Decisions

Tereyagoglu, Necati; Veeraraghavan, Senthil - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 12, pp. 2168-2189

challenges in making optimal pricing and production decisions. Such firms are confronted with precipitous trade-off between high … of conspicuous consumption. In this paper, we propose a model that addresses pricing and production decisions for a firm … an expensive production location/supplier or using expensive raw materials. <i>This paper was accepted by Preyas Desai …

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Optimal Search for Product Information

Branco, Fernando; Sun, Monic; Villas-Boas, J. Miguel - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 11, pp. 2037-2056

importance/informativeness of each attribute. We discuss optimal pricing, the impact of consumer search on profits and social …

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