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Pricing a Finite Inventory of Substitutable Products with Show-All Constraint
- Vineet Goyal
  Vineet Goyal
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6719-3212
  Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
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- Garud Iyengar
  Garud Iyengar
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  Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
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- Rajan Udwani
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  Rajan Udwani
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2112-4876
  Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
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Published Online:June 3, 2026
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Maximizing Retail Revenue When Hiding Products Isn’t an OptionRetailers often face a difficult balancing act: how to dynamically price a limited inventory of substitutable goods when business rules dictate that all available items must remain on display. ...
LEGO: Optimal Online Learning Under Sequential Price Competition
- Shukai Li
  Shukai Li
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3540-5035
  Operations and Business Analytics, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai 200124, China
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- Cong Shi
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  Cong Shi
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3564-3391
  Department Management, Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33146
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- Sanjay Mehrotra
  Sanjay Mehrotra
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1106-1901
  Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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Published Online:June 3, 2026
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Learning to Compete under Unknown DemandIn many markets, firms must set prices while competing with others and learning demand from limited data, yet they rarely know how demand responds to prices or how competitors will react. Most existing models assume ...
Appointment Scheduling of Outpatient Clinical Services Under Uncertain Patient Flows
- Youhua (Frank) Chen
  Youhua (Frank) Chen
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4707-9361
  Department of Decision Analytics and Operations, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Qi Feng
  Qi Feng
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6176-044X
  Department of Supply Chain and Operations Management, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- J. George Shanthikumar
  J. George Shanthikumar
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7345-4674
  Department of Supply Chain and Operations Management, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Yang Yang
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  Yang Yang
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8336-9003
  Department of Operations Management, College of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
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Published Online:June 1, 2026
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Beyond Callbacks: A Simple and Easily Implementable Solution for Clinic Appointment SchedulingOutpatient clinics face a difficult scheduling problem: Patient requests arrive unpredictably, whereas cancellations and no-shows make future demand uncertain. A ...
Privacy, Voting, and the Wisdom of Crowds
- Ekaterina Astashkina
  Ekaterina Astashkina
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  Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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- Ruslan Momot
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  Ruslan Momot
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6653-3326
  Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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- Marat Salikhov
  Marat Salikhov
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  New Economic School and Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Moscow 143026, Russia
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Published Online:May 29, 2026
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When Privacy Concerns Undermine the Wisdom of CrowdsOrganizations often rely on committees, internal experts, and employee reports to make high-stakes decisions. But experts may withhold or distort private information when truthful reporting could expose ...
Feature-Driven Priority Queuing
- Simrita Singh
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  Simrita Singh
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0220-8430
  Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053
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- Itai Gurvich
  Itai Gurvich
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9746-7755
  Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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- Jan A. Van Mieghem
  Jan A. Van Mieghem
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  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8954-7613
  Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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Published Online:May 27, 2026
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Rethinking Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Priority Queuing: The Cost of Locking in ClassifiersWhen job types must be inferred from observable features, should artificial intelligence (AI) classifiers be locked before optimizing queue assignments, or ...

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