Managing Airfares Under Competition: Insights from a Field Experiment
Authors: Maxime C. Cohen, Alexandre Jacquillat,聽Juan Camilo Serpa and Michael Benborhoum
Publication: Management Science, Forthcoming
Clothing repairs and thrifting can help reduce the environmental footprint of the clothing you wear
Clothing companies used to offer just a few collections each year. Today, fast fashion companies like H&M or Zara offer dozens. One way they accomplish this is by reducing the quality of their clothing, but this increases the resources needed to make what we wear, and increases their environmental footprint as a result, said Javad Nasiry in an interview with BNN Bloomberg.
Excess inventory encourages steeper discounts in Black Friday sales
2021 was an anti-climactic year for Black Friday sales. Global supply chains had been disrupted, inventory was very low, and demand was very high. So, retailers had little incentive to sell items at discounted prices. 2022 has been a little different, said Prof Maxime Cohen in an interview with CTV News.
Circular economy can help mitigate environmental impact of frenzied Black Friday shopping
Black Friday offers cut-rate deals, but low prices can come with a high environmental cost. If shoppers don鈥檛 make choices wisely, their purchases could end up in the landfill.
Constrained optimization of objective functions determined from random forests
Authors: Max Biggs, Rim Hariss and Georgia Perakis
Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming First published online: September 2022
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Professors Cohen, Khern-am-nuai awarded SSHRC Insight Grant
Congratulations to Maxime Cohen,聽Professor in Retail and Operations Management聽and聽Warut Khern-am-nuai,聽Associate Professor in Information Systems who were awarded a聽2022 SSHRC Insight Grant.
鈥淯nderstanding Fairness in Fair Machine Learning鈥�
Retail power in distribution channels: A double-edged sword for upstream suppliers
Authors:聽Yuhong He, Saibal Ray and Shuya Yin
Publication:聽Production and Operations Management Volume 31, Issue 6, June 2022, Pages 2681 鈥� 2694
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Offering a signing bonus can help companies recruit new worker鈥檚, but industry-wide worker shortages remain
Canada鈥檚 trucking industry has a worker shortage, and competition for qualified drivers is high. The last-mile delivery company Sysco is offering truck drivers up to $30 an hour 鈥� with a $10,000 bonus once they meet all of the company鈥檚 service standards. This type of incentive can help address a company鈥檚 need for employees in the short-term, but it doesn鈥檛 address the larger problem, said Prof.
Health data analytics can help improve access to health care
Health questionnaires are time-consuming 鈥� for doctors and patients alike. 鈥淭he digitalization of all of those questions would allow patients to do lot of work before visiting a physician,鈥� says Maxime Cohen, a Professor of Retail and Operations Management at Desautels and the Chief AI officer for ELNA Medical, Canada鈥檚 largest network of clinics.
Clothing recycling programs do little to address fast fashion鈥檚 environmental impact
Speed and variety. These are the pillars of the fast fashion model. Retailers like H&M and Zara seek to bring style to the masses by emulating the trends of Paris and Milan, but their model of disposable clothing comes with a high environmental cost. With this business model in place, it simply is not possible for these businesses to be sustainable, said Prof.
Prof Maxime Cohen wins 2022 MSOM Young Scholar Prize
Congratulations to Maxime Cohen,聽Professor of Retail and Operations Management, winner of the聽2022 MSOM Young Scholar Prize, awarded by聽Manufacturing and Service Operations Management - MSOM Society of INFORMS.
Taxing waste could help make fashion more sustainable
Reducing waste can help lower the environmental impact of any business, and Javad Nasiry believes that policy can help achieve this. The fashion industry is a major source of carbon emissions, and fast fashion retailers have made it worse with low-quality apparel designed to be worn only a few times.
Celebrating excellence in teaching at Desautels
Across programs and subject areas, the Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that teaching plays in enriching the student experience and in inspiring the next generation of leaders.
Delve: How Predictive Data Analysis Illuminates the Future of Retail, with Maxime Cohen
Artificial Intelligence innovation thrives in an environment where business arenas, fundamental research, and thought leadership overlap.
Desautels鈥� event highlights innovative research and recognizes scholars
On Friday, May 13, members of the Desautels Faculty of Management gathered to celebrate the innovative and impactful research conducted by its scholars.聽
Fifteen professors were on hand to deliver two-minute presentations of their most interesting and research.
