The authors are grateful to former editor-in-chief of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Chris Tang, former department editor Hau Lee, and current editor-in-chief Georgia Perakis for their continued support and encouragement of this special section. The authors are also grateful for the contributions and help received from (guest) editor Volodymyr Babich; associate editors Vishal Agrawal, Nitin Bakshi, Gah-Yi Ban, Chaithanya Bandi, John Birge, Jiri Chod, Maxime Cohen, Yao Cui, Erick Delage, Lingxiu Dong, Joel Goh, Jose Guajardo, Long He, Guoming Lai, Jun Li, Robert Swinney, Matthew Sobel, Nikolaos Trichakis, Gerry Tsoukalas, Tunay Tunca, Owen Wu, and Dennis Zhang; and the many anonymous reviewers, whose efforts were essential to this special section’s success.