Physician productivity is an important driver of key healthcare outcomes, such as quality of care, treatment costs and patient satisfaction, because physicians influence a vast majority of treatment decisions, and are central to the care delivery process. Thus, it is critical for researchers to...

Delays in product availability are common in e-commerce where electronic retailers try to manage with very low inventories. While this lowers inventory costs, the negative effect of increased stockouts is to reduce net demand for the product. We analyze the effect of offering a lower price...

The battle between Microsoft and Google will shape how our society makes use of technology, computing, and information. It will determine which firm will shape and control the future of computing, and ultimately profit from it. This face-off pits a world of computing which the operating system...

When buyers are uncertain about product valuations for future consumption, the seller incurs an information disadvantage if it allows consumers to purchase late, after they (privately) learn their true consumption state. Despite this, when customers are heterogeneous, it may be optimal for the...

Many digital platforms have accrued enormous power and scale, leveraging cross-side network effects between the sides they connect (e.g., producers and consumers; or creators and viewers). Platforms motivate a diverse spectrum of producers, large and small, to participate by sharing platform...

Mobile health solutions are expanding rapidly and have become a part of the health care landscape. Over a hundred thousand mobile apps exist today, and create value in very diverse ways. This paper proposed a framework for classifying mHealth solutions on three dimensions, type of technology...

Many digital platforms give users a bundle of goods sourced from numerous creators, generate revenue through consumption of these goods, and motivate creators by sharing of revenue. This paper studies the platform’s design choices and creators’ participation and supply decisions, when...

This article studies the inclusion of sponsored results in recommendations, observed in many information gatekeepers including Internet search engines, travel experts, credit raters, radio deejays, and movie critics, which are an essential entry point for many information search and decision...

The first section of Computational Modeling and Problem Solving in the Networked World focuses on the reflective and integrative thinking that is critical to contemporary science - "Perspectives on Computation." This section presents philosophical perspectives on computation, covering a variety...