Kelley School of Business

Operations & Decision Technologies


Racial and LGBT Bias Persists in Ridesharing Platforms Despite Mitigation Efforts, IU Research Finds

Posted on by George Vlahakis

Despite efforts by ridesharing companies to eliminate or reduce discrimination, research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business finds that racial and LGBT bias persists.

Platforms such as Uber, Lyft and Via responded to drivers’ biased behavior by removing information that could indicate a rider’s gender and race from initial ride requests. However, researchers still found that biases against underrepresented groups and those who indicate support for the LGBT community continued to exist after drivers accepted a ride request — when the rider’s picture would then be displayed.

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Kelley and Krannert Business Schools Partner to Help IU Health Manage Surge of COVID-19 Patients

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Faculty at two of Indiana’s leading business schools — Indiana and Purdue universities — are collaborating on a project with IU Health to help the health care provider manage the COVID-19 demand surge in their 16 hospitals across five regions of the state.

The interdisciplinary team of professors at IU’s Kelley School of Business and Purdue’s Krannert School of Management has been working since March 23 to develop a predictive model of the resources required for an adequate response to the pandemic. It integrates disease prediction with a sophisticated patient flow workload model.

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Chatbots can ease medical providers’ burden, offer trusted guidance to those with COVID-19 symptoms

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COVID-19 has placed tremendous pressure on health care systems, not only for critical care but also from an anxious public looking for answers.

Research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business found that chatbots — software applications that conduct online chats via text or text-to-speech — working for reputable organizations can ease the burden on medical providers and offer trusted guidance to those with symptoms.

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Lecturer Taryn Malher, a 2019 Grace Hopper Faculty Scholar, Reflects on Celebration

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Lecturer of Information Systems Taryn Malher had the opportunity to travel to Orlando, FL, this week to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration as a 2019 Grace Hopper Faculty Scholar. The Grace Hopper Celebration is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists and is held by the AnitaB.org nonprofit organization each year. The Faculty Scholars program recognizes faculty who teach in a technical program, mentor female students, actively support technology-based organizations, and have the opportunity to carry back lessons learned to her community and school. Taryn’s award was sponsored by NetApp, a data services for the hybrid cloud organization. She joined over 25,000 women and allies of women in technology during the celebration. (more…)

Symposium on “The Past, the Present, and the Future: Charting Emerging Research Themes in Operations Management, Decision Sciences and Business Analytics, and Information Systems”

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Academic disciplines are in a constant state of flux, both in terms of the novel themes that are examined as well methods that are employed to conduct research.  Operations and Decision Technologies (ODT) department’s Senior Scholars Summer Symposium sought to provide a historical context to and showcase different research themes that are emerging in the academic disciplines of operations management, decision sciences and analytics, and information systems.

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Exploring Research Connections: Behavioral Operations Symposium

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This summer, ODT was proud to host guest scholars for the 2019 Behavioral Operations Symposium.

The goal of the symposium was to bring speakers who would provide an overview of the variety of work being done in Behavioral Operations Management. Overall, the morning’s speakers centered on studying how people think of probabilities and how they solve scheduling and queueing-related problems, while the afternoon speakers focused on testing game-theoretical predictions in supply chain settings. Besides testing different types of theories and studying different behavioral drivers, there is a broad variety of applications to experimental work—ranging from healthcare to sustainability.

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Kelley Alum Gives Back: Justin Greis of EY

Posted on by Emily Rardin

Since he set foot on campus to earn his bachelor’s degree, Justin Greis has been passionate about Indiana University. After earning his second Kelley School of Business degree through the 3/2 MBA program, Justin was recruited by EY, one of the world’s largest professional service firms. He is now a Partner/Principal in EY’s Advisory group and leads the Cybersecurity Strategy, Risk, Compliance and Resilience Practice, which helps large companies mature their cybersecurity programs to help them grow and transform in the digital age.

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Kelley Team Wins 1st and Top Presenter Again at CaseIT

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In February 2019, university students from around the world gathered to compete in the CaseIT Competition, hosted by the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. For the second time in three years, the team from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University placed 1st overall, and a Kelley student was awarded top presenter for the second year in a row. The four students that made up Kelley’s team, Daniel McCauley, Matt MacNab, Camila Sanchez, and Shagun Mishra started strategizing and practicing with IU Clinical Professors Joel Rubin and Alex Barsi Lopes back in November 2018 and worked hard all the way through the competition.

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3rd Place Finish for Kelley Students at NUSCCC 2019

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In onlyNUSCCC Case Competition 24 hours, Kelley School of Business students Grace Liu, Austin Rocha, Kate Maki, and Nicolas Loenen created a solution to solve a real-world supply chain problem. For their recommendation and its presentation, they earned 3rd place in the 2019 National Undergraduate Supply Chain Case Competition, hosted by the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. For the third year in a row, Kelley students finished in the competition’s top 3. But how did they do it?

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