Effective collaboration among supply chain actors can lead to improved market access, reduced logistics costs and improved customer service. In practice, however, widespread collaboration initiatives are challenging to implement, due to barriers such as the sharing of sensitive information,...

Changes in the global economy and technological advances are stimulating an increasing geographic distribution of new product design and development efforts. For large organizations that design and develop complex products, this geographic distribution has added a new layer of complexity to...

Capitation payment models have been increasingly adopted by the payers in the U.S. healthcare market during the past decade. However, healthcare services provided in Medicare Advantage (MA), the largest capitation program in the U.S., have been suggested to be more appealing to healthier...