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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Call for papers
for a special issue of
<i>Management Science</i> on</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Business
Analytics</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Submission
Deadline: September 16, 2012</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Expected
Publication Date: First Quarter 2014</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Co-editors:<br>
Dimitris Bertsimas – MIT</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Eric Bradlow –
University of Pennsylvania</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Noah Gans –
University of Pennsylvania</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Alok Gupta –
University of Minnesota</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Organizations
today have access to enormous data sets, and sophisticated
business analytical tools are needed to harness the tremendous
potential of these data to improve day-to-day decision making. To
encourage further developments in this rapidly growing area of
interdisciplinary research,
<i>Management Science</i> will publish a special issue dedicated
to business analytics.
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Applications of business analytics extend to nearly all managerial
functions in an organization. Using micro-level data,
mathematical models can become more realistic, be validated more
easily, and match more closely true behavioral phenomena. Through
business analytics, historical data can be used to discover
relationships among important elements in an organization’s
environment, make more formal statistical inferences regarding the
structure or strength of these relationships, and improve actions
taken by the organization. Because these relationships are often
not static, the entire cycle of identification, estimation,
prediction, and decision making is repeated frequently and on an
ongoing basis, leading to real-time and highly targeted
data-driven decisions.
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We envision business analytics applied to many domains, including,
but surely not limited to: digital market design and operation;
network and social-graph analysis; pricing and revenue management;
targeted marketing and customer relationship management; fraud and
security; sports and entertainment; retailing to healthcare to
financial services to many other industries. We seek novel
modeling and empirical work which includes, among others,
probability modeling, structural empirical models, and/or
optimization methods.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">Submission: Please
submit your manuscript online via
<a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ms" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ms</a>.
You must select “Special Issue” as the Manuscript Type in Step 1
and select one of the issue’s four co-editors in Step 5.
Manuscripts will generally be assigned to one of the Associate
Editors for this issue (see below; please recommend three in Step
4), but you may also recommend guest Associate Editors.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Associate Editors:</b></p>
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<span style="">Alessandro Acquisti, CMU</span></p>
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<span style="">Chris Forman, Georgia Tech</span></p>
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<span style="">Paat Rusmevichientong, USC</span></p>
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<span style="">Gedas Adomavicius, Minnesota</span></p>
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<span style="">Anindya Ghose, NYU</span></p>
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<span style="">Gary Russell, Iowa</span></p>
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<span style="">Asim Ansari, Columbia</span></p>
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<span style="">Kartik Hosanagar, Penn</span></p>
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<span style="">Haipeng Shen, UNC</span></p>
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<span style="">Sinan Aral, NYU</span></p>
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<span style="">Garud Iyengar, Columbia</span></p>
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<span style="">Melvyn Sim, NUS</span></p>
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<span style="">Ravi Bapna, Minnesota</span></p>
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<span style="">Anton Kleywegt, Georgia Tech</span></p>
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<span style="">Peng Sun, Duke</span></p>
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<span style="">Omar Besbes, Columbia</span></p>
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<span style="">Retsef Levi, MIT</span></p>
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<span style="">Yong Tan, Washington</span></p>
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<span style="">J.P. Dube, Chicago</span></p>
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<span style="">Carl Mela, Duke</span></p>
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<span style="">Chung Piaw Teo, NUS</span></p>
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<span style="">Laurent El Ghaoui, Berkeley</span></p>
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<span style="">Ciamac Moallemi, Columbia</span></p>
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<span style="">Huseyin Topagoglu, Cornell</span></p>
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<span style="">Theos Evgeniou, INSEAD</span></p>
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<span style="">Harikesh Nair, Stanford</span></p>
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<span style="">Olivier Toubia, Columbia</span></p>
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<span style="">Vivek Farias, MIT</span></p>
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<span style="">Georgia Perakis, MIT</span></p>
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<span style="">Yong-Pin Zhou, Washington</span></p>
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<span style="">Fred Feinberg, Michigan</span></p>
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