Intra-Consumer Price Discrimination with Credit Refund Policies

Nov. 23, 2023

Yan Liu and Dan Zhang. 2023. Intra-Consumer Price Discrimination with Credit Refund Policies . Forthcoming, Management Science . Consumers often receive a full or partial refund for product returns or service cancellations. Much of the existing literature studies cash refunds, where consumers get their money back minus a fee upon...

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Leeds Faculty Recognized Among Top 2% of Scientists in the World

Oct. 23, 2023

Leeds professors Manuel Laguna, John Lynch, Russell Cropanzano, Jeff Reuer, Tong Kong and Jeff York have earned a place among the world's most elite and impactful researchers based on standardized citation metrics published by Stanford University. The faculty we among more than 100,000 researchers who were classified into 22 scientific...

Product-based Approximate Linear Programs for Network Revenue Management

Aug. 22, 2022

Rui Zhang, Saied Samiedaluie, and Dan Zhang. 2022. Product-based Approximate Linear Programs for Network Revenue Management . Operations Research , 70(5):2837-2850. The approximate linear programming approach has received significant attention in the network revenue management literature. A popular approximation in the existing literature is separable piecewise linear (SPL) approximation, which...

An Analysis of "Buy X, Get One Free" Reward Programs

Sept. 17, 2021

Yan Liu, Yacheng Sun, and Dan Zhang. 2021. An Analysis of "Buy X, Get One Free" Reward Programs . Operations Research , 69(6): 1823-1841. We study the effects of redemption hurdles on reward program members’ decision-making and firm profitability. We focus on the popular “Buy X, Get One Free” (BXGO)...

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Making Better Use of Big Data in Marketing

May 6, 2021

Leeds professor earns Kahle award for algorithm aimed at improved targeting. A paper aimed at helping businesses better target consumers through personalized advertising of curated products is this year’s winner of the Kahle Family Research Award at Leeds. Rico Bumbaca , an assistant professor of marketing at Leeds, is the...

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How Digital Platforms Can Orchestrate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Through Access Control

April 30, 2021

Entrepreneurs and startups are increasingly turning to digital platforms nowadays, whether it is about creating a new platform (think Snapchat or TikTok), or providing product offerings and soliciting ideas on an existing platform. Entrepreneurs and startups are increasingly turning to digital platforms nowadays, whether it is about creating a new...

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Fireside Chat with Michael Porter – Moderated by Tony Tong

April 28, 2021

World-renowned expert talks political deadlock and analytical advances in virtual talk with Leeds community

Is China Emerging as the Global Leader in AI?

Is China Emerging as the Global Leader in AI?

Feb. 18, 2021

Harvard Business Review by Daitian Li, Tony W. Tong, and Yangao Xiao Tony W. Tong, a professor of strategy & entrepreneurship in the Leeds School of Business, co-authored an article discussing China’s stunning progress in the AI industry. However, according to Tong and his co-authors, the conditions that helped China...

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Authenticity is Key Factor in Founders’ Sustainable Startups

Jan. 5, 2021

A strong sense of self is a positive indicator in the future growth, success and sustainability of entrepreneurial ventures, new research shows. A recent study by Leeds Associate Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship, Jeff York and co-authors Isobel O'Neila, associate professor in entrepreneurship and innovation from the Nottingham University Business...

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New Research by Dr. Diego Garcia Selected as Editor’s Choice in Leading Financial Journal

Nov. 10, 2020

Garcia’s study was chosen for its significant contribution to the study of finance. Burridge Endowed Chair in Finance Dr. Diego Garcia’s Asymmetric Information and the Pecking (Dis)Order will be featured as Editor’s Choice in The Review in Finance, a leading academic journal recognized for publishing cutting-edge research on financial economics...

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