A study by MIT Sloan Prof. Georgia Perakis found not only can consumer trends be predicted, but that they also can be used to optimize targeted promotions and improve profits by an average of 9.4%.

Researchers, including MIT Sloan's Alessandro Bonatti, have designed what they believe is an improved, quantitative way for big-data providers to price the information they sell to informed customers.

A new working paper from MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mercedes Delgado and HBS senior fellow Karen G. Mills separates high-wage and STEM-intensive supply chain services from Main Street services.

Constant incentives needed to counter consumer choices

MIT Sloan School of Management Prof. Jared R. Curhan, working with Virginia Tech professor William J. Becker, looked at the habits of people who negotiate back to back with many different partners.

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