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Decision Analysis	Methodology Tutorials
Energy	Risk Management
Forecasting	Service Science
Health Care	Supply Chain Management
Implementing Analytics	Sustainability
Marketing

Plenary talks will be given by Mark W. Shafer, Senior Vice President, Revenue Management & Analytics, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts; Richard O'Neill, Chief Economic Advisor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and the 2010 Edelman Award Competition.

For Junior Faculty and Young Industry Practitioners

The Technology Management Section (TMS) is a community for scholars and practitioners of technology management to discuss emerging ideas and promote novel research. TMS members come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and use diverse methods in their work to explore the boundaries of the field, including topics such as innovation management, product development management, R&D management, engineering management, knowledge, learning, intellectual capital, entrepreneurship, technology diffusion, technology forecasting, technology and organizational change, technology strategy, and other topics.

TMS sponsors a track of sessions at the INFORMS annual meeting to address these various technology related topics. Annual prizes are awarded at our business meeting, including those for Best Dissertation, Distinguished Service, and Distinguished Speaker. Past Distinguished Speakers include many eminent scholars, such as Marvin Lieberman, Carliss Baldwin, Cheryl Gaimon, Ashish Arora, Eric von Hippel, and Scott Shane. In addition, our annual business meeting and social provides an informal forum to meet other academicians and practitioners in the TMS community. For more information or to join the TMS, go here .

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New Management Insights - Now Available
Michael F. Gorman writes short summaries on the key points of every new article featured in the latest issue. Each month Management Science includes a set of Management Insight overviews that explain the relevance of each paper to management practice: February 2010.

Management Insights are written by Michael F. Gorman, University of Dayton and Secretary, CPMS - The Practice Section of INFORMS.

Interfaces - Olympic Games Knowledge Modeling for Organizational Change and Resource Management
This article looks at the innovative techniques from management science, systems engineering, and information technology to plan, design, and implement limited lifetime systems to support venue operations at the Olympic Games.

Operations Research - First 2010 Issue 
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• Dynamic Pricing with a Prior on Market Response
• Design for Process Flexibility: Efficiency of the Long Chain and Sparse Structure
• Inventory Management with an Exogenous Supply Process

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management - First 2010 Issue

Check out these new article abstracts in our most recent issue, then go to Subscribe to learn how to add this journal to your subscription or to access all journals for only $99.00

• OM Practice-Work Expands to Fill the Time Available
• Robust Controls for Network Revenue Management
• Customer-Driven vs. Retailer-Driven Search: Channel Performance and Implications

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Upgrade your 2010 online subscriptions to INFORMS Pubs Suite for only $99! Get online access to all 12 INFORMS journals at discount greater than half the cost. Pubs Suite is a special members only benefit that delivers online access to all journals back to Volume 1, Issue 1. Download the Personal Subscriptions brochure.

 

Brought to you by CPMS - the Practice Section of INFORMS - the Wagner Prize presentations are perfect for the classroom to see O.R. in action or for your business to learn from or model. View the presentations here. This is a new member benefit! A brief log-in process is required to view the presentations.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for excellence in operations research practice. Competition will be held at the 2010 Annual Meeting, November 7-10 in Austin, TX.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) December Newsletter features a special message from the president, Elise del Rosario, news about the Uruguayan O.R. Society, progress in the use of O.R. in Eastern Africa, and O.R. in rural electrification projects in developing countries.

 

If you are an Edelman Laureate (author of an Edelman paper that has appeared or will appear in Interfaces) or have represented your organization in the Edelman Academy, you are cordially invited to attend the 2010 Edelman Gala on Monday evening, April 19, 2010, in Orlando, FL, to be formally recognized. Please RSVP to Rafael McFadden in the INFORMS office as soon as possible so we can plan the festivities. The Edelman Gala is part of the INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice, April 18-20, 2010, in Orlando. Registration is required.

 

Do you know a business person who's finally getting around to making a serious decision about hiring an operations research consultant or vendor to work on an important project? Can they benefit from a little advice? Vanguard Software's Brian Lewis, the chair of the INFORMS Public Information Committee and author of an October ORMS Today piece on the subject, offers his beginners' basic tips for all to share. www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast. Pass it along to an executive in the need. They'll thank you for it.