In large retail operations, category management teams spend significant time deciding which product goes onto which shelf and in which order. Shelf space is very expensive real estate in retail.

Every year, Apple holds three or four events to unveil new products. There's often a spring event around March or April, the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, a September event focused on the ...

Farran Powell is the managing editor of investing at Forbes Advisor. She was previously the assistant managing editor of investing at U.S. News & World Report. Her work has appeared in numerous ...

Editor's note: The SCM thesis Buffer or Suffer: Dynamic Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization in Action was authored by Vi Duong and Nic Holwerda, and supervised by Dr. Eva Ponce (eponce@mit.edu). For ...