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Where Did the Demand Go? Teaching Demand Censoring with the Newsvendor Challenge
- Joren Gijsbrechts
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  Joren Gijsbrechts
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-6855
  Esade, Ramon Llull University, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;
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  Joren Gijsbrechts, Esade, Ramon Llull University, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;
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- Heletjé Emily Van Staden
  Heletjé Emily Van Staden
  Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin, Blackrock, County Dublin A94 XF34, Ireland
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Published Online:October 4, 2024
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The newsvendor model is widely used to teach decision making under uncertainty. Traditionally, analytical methods have been taught to determine the optimal order quantity that balances missed profit from ordering too few units against the cost of excess ...
The Game of Thrones Quest for Optimality: A Role Playing Game for Teaching the Art of Linear Programming
- Jeroen Beliën
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  Jeroen Beliën
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2349-7390
  Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven, 1000 Brussels, Belgium;
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  Jeroen Beliën, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven, 1000 Brussels, Belgium;
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- Liesje De Boeck
  Liesje De Boeck
  Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven, 1000 Brussels, Belgium;
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- Dries Goossens
  Dries Goossens
  Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;Core lab CVAMO, FlandersMake@UGent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;
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- Nils-Hassan Quttineh
  Nils-Hassan Quttineh
  Department of Mathematics, Linköping University, SE 581 83 Linköping, Sweden;
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- Jens Vermeir
  Jens Vermeir
  DHL Express, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
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Published Online:October 3, 2024
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To stimulate practicing modeling skills, we develop an attractive educational team game embedded in an Excel spreadsheet. The game covers aspects of blending problems, production process problems, transportation problems, work scheduling problems, ...
Case Article—Optimizing Transportation and Equity in a District Zoning Problem for ORville Public Schools
- Kelly M. Sullivan
  Kelly M. Sullivan
  Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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- Ashlea Bennett Milburn
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  Ashlea Bennett Milburn
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9798-1364
  Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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  Ashlea Bennett Milburn, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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Published Online:September 23, 2024
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This case asks students to solve a multiobjective optimization decision problem applied to school district zoning. In the case, residential areas in a school district must be assigned to middle schools having capacity limits. The operational ...
Case—Optimizing Transportation and Equity in a District Zoning Problem for ORville Public Schools
- Kelly M. Sullivan
  Kelly M. Sullivan
  Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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- Ashlea Bennett Milburn
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  Ashlea Bennett Milburn
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9798-1364
  Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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  Ashlea Bennett Milburn, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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Published Online:September 23, 2024
Adventures with Grading Contracts in Operations Classes: A Preliminary Investigation
- Stewart Liu
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  Stewart Liu
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  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4742-0524
  Department of Decision Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132
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  Stewart Liu, Department of Decision Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132
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- Theresa M. Roeder
  Theresa M. Roeder
  Department of Decision Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132
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- Susan C. Cholette
  Susan C. Cholette
  Department of Decision Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132
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Published Online:August 29, 2024
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Statewide initiatives and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused us to re-examine how we deliver and evaluate students in our courses. In this paper, we discuss our experiences using grading contracts, which are commonly used in writing programs but virtually ...

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