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Before online social networks came along, finding a job was often times a matter of who you knew. The digital age hasn’t debunked that conventional wisdom. But it has deluded some into believing that having hundreds of connections on LinkedIn or other professional social networks will make their next job search quicker and more successful. However, a new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science found it's the quality, not the quantity that counts. 

A news study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science finds that posting calories on menus in chain restaurants not only shifts customers towards healthier alternatives but also had broader spillovers by impacting consumer evaluations of the restaurant.

INFORMS, the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals, offers its Essential Practice Skills for High-Impact Analytics Projects workshop. This intensive hands-on, workshop explores the concept of “structured problem solving” and provides participants with practical frameworks to go from ISSUE to ACTION. It combines approaches for analytical and creative problem solving, strategies for communicating and persuading, and processes for managing projects and working in teams.

Richard Thaler, renowned economist and published author in the INFORMS journals Interfaces, Management Science and Marketing Science, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

New research, recently published in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, examines how automation can limit pilots’ abilities to respond to "loss of control" incidents like the one that led to the crash of flight AF447, as becoming more dependent on technology can erode basic cognitive skills. By reviewing expert analyses of the disaster and analyzing data from AF447’s cockpit and flight data recorders, the researchers found that AF447, and commercial aviation more generally, reveal how automation may have unanticipated, catastrophic consequences that, while unlikely, can emerge in extreme conditions.