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May 2026 Issue

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?

Michael Sockin

 

 

When Learning From Prices Leads to Mistakes

When you check the price of a stock or browse home listings in a new neighborhood, you're seeing more than a number …

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Awards

Awards

This month we are honoring Rowena Crabbe, who has received the 2025 Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award.

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Thank You

A Special Thank-You!

Thank you to all the faculty members and Ph.D. students who participated in the Research Lunch with Dean Lillian Mills and the finale of the McCombs March Madness on April 3. 

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Funding

Research Funding Opportunities

We are pleased to announce the continued success of the McCombs Undergraduate Research Assistant (URA) Program.

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Just Accepted Journal Publications

Yong Yu (Accounting)
“Analysts’ EPS-Decreasing Exclusions and Target Price Forecasts”
Management Science

Kishore Gawande (BGS)
“District Heterogeneity, Legislative Bargaining, and Trade Policy”
Working Papers Series (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)

Indranil Bardhan (IROM)
“Beyond Codes of Conduct: Shared Values for Digitalization”
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Junyu Cao and Yan Leng (IROM)
“Adaptive Data Acquisition for Personalized Recommendations With Optimality Guarantees on Short-Form Video Platforms”
Management Science

Diwakar Gupta and Ioannis Stamatopoulos (IROM)
“Local Cost Synergies in Reverse Auctions: An Application to Road Salt Procurement”
Operations Research

Diwakar Gupta (IROM)
“Early Reservation for Follow-Up Appointments: Enhancing Patient Care Continuity”
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Caleb Kwon (IROM)
OM Forum – “Supply Chain Management in the AI Era: A Vision Statement From the Operations Management Community”
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Guoming Lai (IROM)
“Impacts of Strategic Consumers and Direct Channel on Supply Chain Contracting”
Production and Operations Management

Ashish Agarwal, Kumar Muthuraman, and Ioannis Stamatopoulos (IROM)
“Competition for Customer Attention Is Creating Oversupply Pockets in US Micromobility”
Operations Research

Yan Leng and Ashish Agarwal (IROM)
“Reducing Disparity Between LLMs and Humans: Optimal LLM Sample Calibration”
Marketing Science

Yifan Yu (IROM)
“The Pleasant Visual Path to Review Helpfulness: Picture-Evoked Emotional Valence and Picture-Text Alignment”
MIS Quarterly

Yifan Yu (IROM)
“Emotions in Online Content Diffusion”
Information Systems Research

James L. Ritchie-Dunham (Management)
“A Longitudinal Outcome-Wide Assessment of the Impact of Life Balance on Flourishing: A 2-Year Cross-National Analysis of 22 Countries in the Global Flourishing Study”
Scientific Reports 

Wayne Hoyer (Marketing)
“The Phenomenon of Creepiness in a Digital Marketing World”
Psychology & Marketing

 

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