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… Read more »
Research
Kelley and Krannert Business Schools Partner to Help IU Health Manage Surge of COVID-19 Patients
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… Read more »
Chatbots can ease medical providers’ burden, offer trusted guidance to those with COVID-19 symptoms
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… Read 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”
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… Read more »
Exploring Research Connections: Behavioral Operations Symposium
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… Read more »