McCombs TODAY

Andrew Whinston (right), McCombs professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management was named a Distinguished Fellow at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Oct. 11-14 in San Diego. INFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for the field of operations research. Whinston [...]

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Recent research from Bin Gu, assistant professor in the IROM Department, and Andrew Whinston, professor in the IROM department (along with Wenjing Duan of George Washington University), demonstrates that the internet seems to create herding behavior, rather than bringing about a diversity in online choices as many thought would happen. The research was recently published [...]

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In this Google Tech Talks video, “How to Slice the Pie? Optimal Share Structure Design in Internet Advertising Auctions,” IROM Professor and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce Andrew B. Whinston explores the share auction model that Google uses to allocate its internet advertising resources.
In the Google model, the highest advertiser gets [...]

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Ten McCombs School faculty were honored by their peers at the McCombs Teaching and Research Awards ceremony May 4. Congratulations to these terrific faculty members on a job well done:
RESEARCH AWARDS
CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors
Alok Kumar, assistant professor, finance
For research excellence by an assistant professor in the McCombs School. Limited to tenure-track, full-time Assistant [...]

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