New Rutgers research suggests much of the seemingly endless waiting for complex medical care can be engineered away by recreating operations inside a computer and testing countless possible improvements.

A study in the Annals of Operations Research explains how researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute and Rutgers Business School built a working computer simulation of the institute’s blood cancer clinic and used it to identify and fix bottlenecks that kept patients waiting up to three hours between check-in and treatment. The result: Laboratory blood work turnaround was cut from roughly 90 minutes to less than 30 and helped the clinic nearly double the number of infusion patients it treats each day, from about 50 to about 80.

Vaibhav Diwanji, a mass commiunications researcher at the University of Kansas, has published a study detailing four experiments he conducted on the effectiveness of AI-derived advertising. The results showed that placement on a website, type of ad, relevance to content contained on the site and other factors could deliver ads people found useful and positively influenced their attitudes toward the advertiser without using surveillance of the persons' internet behaviors. This counters prevailing industry wisdom that spying is necessary for effective advertising, and comes at a time that the future of online privacy is being debated and regulation of such surveillance is increasing, Diwanji argues.

Rather than rely on balancing their tolerance for financial risk with their desire for higher earning, people bias their monetary choices to avoid the possibility of losing any money and also behave differently when they can observe what they could have earned if they had chosen differently. 

A study economics shows that greater agility in the sales system only increases a company’s profits if the structure and management of the sales channels are carefully considered / publication in the “International Journal of Research in Marketing”

Men and women achieve similar economic outcomes in negotiations, but female negotiators foster stronger interpersonal relationships, which lead in turn to greater satisfaction with the result and a greater desire to negotiate with that woman again in the future, according to new research co-authored by Cornell University.

A Hiroshima University-led study conducted with Rakuten Securities finds that practical digital skills, positive financial attitudes, and self-protection are more consistently associated with lower old-age anxiety than traditional financial knowledge alone.

Despite the need for specialist physicians, the road to securing a job is not easy, particularly in specialties without the ability to practice in private offices or clinics, such as critical care and some surgical specialties, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.251882.

Research across 59 countries shows venture debt reshapes startup finance by reducing early-stage equity, increasing late-stage investment, and expanding the total pool of capital

A new international study has found that venture debt is reshaping how capital moves through technology startup ecosystems around the world. Analysing data from 59 countries between 2015 and 2024, the researchers show that greater venture debt availability is associated with lower early-stage equity funding, higher late-stage equity funding and a positive overall effect on the total capital available to startups.

Published in International Review of Economics and Finance by researchers from the Edinburgh Business School based at Heriot-Watt University, the study is the first to provide an international comparison of venture debt and its influence on equity funding. The research argues that venture debt should not be seen as a passive supplement to equity, but as a strategic financial instrument that can reshape innovation pathways.