Problem Definition: Retailers have become increasingly interested in personalizing their products and services such as promotions. For this, we need new personalized demand models. Unfortunately, social data is not available to many retailers for cost and/or privacy issues. Thus, we focus on the...

In e-commerce, product ranking and display affect customer choices and sales as items placed in top positions receive significantly more clicks than items placed at the bottom. For retailers who sell items from the inventory they have purchased and owned, product ranking has a profound impact on...

In this paper, we develop a model for the adoption of solar photovoltaic technology by residential consumers. In particular, we assume consumers purchase these solar panels according to a discrete choice model. The technology adoption process is reinforced by network externalities such as...

Problem definition: We study personalized product recommendations on platforms when customers have unknown preferences. Importantly, customers may disengage when offered poor recommendations.Academic / Practical Relevance: Online platforms often personalize product recommendations using bandit...

The goal of this paper is to leverage household-level data to improve food-related policies aimed atincreasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables (FVs) among low-income households. Currently, several interventions target areas where residents have limited physical access to grocery stores,...

Problem definition: Online retailers provide recommendations of ancillary services when a customer is making a purchase. Our goal is to predict the Net Present Value (NPV) of these services, estimate the probability of a customer subscribing to each of them depending on what services are offered...

Due to the innovative nature of green-technology products (e.g., electric vehicles and solar panels), customers are usually a priori uncertain about their purchasing benefits and typically consult user experiences via online product reviews and word-of-mouth communications. Despite the critical...

Governments use consumer incentives to promote green technologies (e.g., solar panels and electric vehicles). Our goal in this paper is to study how policy adjustments over time will interact with production decisions from the industry. We model the interaction between a government and an...