The Data-Driven Newsvendor Problem: New Bounds and Insights

Retsef Levi
Retsef Levi
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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Georgia Perakis
Georgia Perakis
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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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Joline Uichanco
Joline Uichanco
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Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Retsef Levi

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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Georgia Perakis

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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

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Joline Uichanco

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Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

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Published Online:26 Oct 2015https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2015.1422

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Received:August 01, 2010
Accepted:August 01, 2015
Published Online:October 26, 2015

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Retsef Levi, Georgia Perakis, Joline Uichanco (2015) The Data-Driven Newsvendor Problem: New Bounds and Insights. Operations Research 63(6):1294-1306.

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