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CATONSVILLE, MD, October 9, 2017 - In 2008, New York City mandated all chain restaurants to post the calories of items on their menus. The intent was to induce consumers to choose healthier items in the restaurant. A forthcoming study in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science, a leading scholarly marketing publication, investigated whether the calorie posting on menus has broader spillovers by impacting consumer evaluations of the restaurant. The study finds that health mentions about the foods increased significantly in online reviews after the calorie posting regulation. The result suggests that calorie posting can not only shift consumers towards healthier alternatives when inside a restaurant, but can also have spillovers on other customers reading the reviews by potentially redirecting them towards healthier restaurants and food items. 

CATONSVILLE, MD, October 4, 2017 – Leaders in industry and academia from around the world are among those who will be joining the INFORMS Board of Directors in 2018. INFORMS, the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals, today announced the newest members elected to its BOD, which is comprised of the leading minds in both the academic and industry sectors of operations research (O.R.) and analytics. 

CATONSVILLE, MD, October 2, 2017 – The Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) program, the only global professional certification for analytics practitioners, has been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the American member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), furthering its distinction to what CIO Magazine earlier this year called one of the top “big data certifications that will payoff.”