Decision, Operations & Information Technologies: Recent submissions
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DESIGNING INFORMATION STRATEGIES FOR DIGITAL PLATFORMS: FINDINGS FROM LARGE-SCALE RANDOMIZED FIELD EXPERIMENTS
(2019)The rise of digital platforms has transformed our economy and reshaped consumer behaviors and experiences. While practitioners and researchers have a growing interest in understanding digital platforms, there is still a ... -
Online Doctor Reviews: Essays on their Economic Implications, Incidence of Fraud, and Motivation of Reviewers
(2019)The ubiquity of WOM in the business world underscores how instrumental it has been as a consumer engagement lever. Therefore, it is imperative for business to understand the consequential role of WOM in influencing consumer ... -
The Interplay Between Social Connections and Digital Technologies: Three Essays Examining Healthy Behaviors and Income Mobility
(2018)In the past few decades, digital technologies have profoundly altered virtually every aspect of human life. While the direct impact of digital technologies on individuals’ economic welfare or personal behaviors has attracted ... -
Individual differences in regulatory mode moderate the effectiveness of a pilot mHealth trial for diabetes management among older veterans
(PLoS (Public Library of Science), 2018-03-07)mHealth tools to help people manage chronic illnesses have surged in popularity, but evidence of their effectiveness remains mixed. The aim of this study was to address a gap in the mHealth and health psychology literatures ... -
Algorithms for Online Advertising Portfolio Optimization and Capacitated Mobile Facility Location
(2017)In this dissertation, we apply large-scale optimization techniques including column generation and heuristic approaches to problems in the domains of online advertising and mobile facility location. First, we study the ...