In many design environments, the technology around which a product is designed may evolve over the course of the product development cycle. In reaction, designers may modify the product's design to avail of new technology, resulting in cost overruns and delays. This effect can be mitigated if a...

Situations where simple and affordable testing tools are available but not accurate enough to be operationally relevant are ubiquitous. For COVID-19 detection, rapid point-of-care tests are cheap and provide results in minutes, but largely fail policymakers' accuracy requirements. We propose an...

We use a unique, hand-collected dataset to examine learning and forgetting in hip replacement surgery as a function of a surgeon’s experience with specific surgical device versions and the time between their repeat uses. We also develop a generalizable method to correct for the left-censoring...

Choosing the right set of new products to offer is a key driver of pro tability. New products often share some design attributes with existing products, so fi rms need to decide which attributes to keep common, and which to differentiate. We propose and empirically implement a new methodology...