Problem Definition: We examine the impact of a selling firm's inventory decision in a model where the firm engages in consumer profiling and targeted pricing and consumers decide whether to hide their identity. Consumers who do not hide will be notified by an advertising email early in the...

Motivated by emerging practice in the cut flower industry, we consider a periodic-review inventory system for a perishable product with a lifetime of two periods. There are two separate customer demands for the new product with two-period remaining lifetime and the old product with one-period...

This paper considers a stochastic inventory management problem where a capital-constrained firm can obtain additional working capital through an inventory-based financing facility by pledging its inventory to obtain loans from a lender. We show that it is optimal to deploy a state-dependent...