Trends and Research in the Decision Sciences: Best Papers from the 2014 Annual Conference

Foreword

“Scientists in different disciplines don’t speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It’s like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.”

—Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Almost always, great new ideas don’t emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.”

—Clayton Christenson

There is no shortage of irony in the world. In the academic world of business, one of the biggest ironies is that faculties are organized around specific functions—such as marketing, finance, accounting, operations, supply chain—while businesses themselves have to find a way to integrate many diverse functions. At the ...