Membrane distillation (MD) has become an area of rapidly increasing research and
development since the 1990s, providing a potentially cost effective thermally-driven desalination …

Supply chain management is likely to play an important role in the digital economy. In this
paper, we first describe major issues in traditional supply chain management. Next, we focus …

Increasing global population demands modernization in agricultural production to achieve
sustainable food security. The frequent pest infestation causes a significant economic loss …

… Swaminathan is currently an assistant professor in manufacturing and information technology
at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He has a …

We study a firm that makes new products in the first period and uses returned cores to offer
remanufactured products, along with new products, in future periods. We introduce the …

Importance A daily dose with 6 mg of dexamethasone is recommended for up to 10 days in
patients with severe and critical COVID-19, but a higher dose may benefit those with more …

… (See Lee and Swaminathan for detailed review of analytical research in this area.)Based
on the above, we have identified a handful of key strategies for mass customization and have …

… a specific customer from the direct channel to be a fraction (J (with 0 < (J < 1) of the utility
received from the traditional channel, using (J for all customers. Similar to their results, we find …

We study a firm that makes new products in the first period and uses returned cores to make
remanufactured products (along with new products) in future periods. The remanufactured …

In this paper we study the optimal pricing strategies when a product is sold on two channels
such as the Internet and a traditional channel. We assume a stylized deterministic demand …