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... Innovation Prize Finalists Announced in `Science of Better' Innovation Prize Finalists Announced in `Science of Better' INFORMS Contest Known for Forecasting Trends in Business, Government HANOVER, Md., March 2 /PRNewswire/ - The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS(R)) today announced six finalists in its competition to win the 2005 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

The annual contest highlights innovations in organizations that are profit and nonprofit, in the U.S.

and across the world, and frequently identifies unfolding trends in business and government.

This is the 34th year of the prestigious competition, which has recognized techniques that have changed our technical and business landscape.

These include dynamic pricing, which revolutionized pricing in the airlines and hospitality industries; Diagnostic Related Groups, which saved $50 billion in costs faced by the Medicare system in the 1980s; and new methods of conducting online product procurement auctions, managing the supply chain, and fighting AIDS.

Innovations at IBM, Motorola, GM, NBC, Mars, and Merrill Lynch, as well as the U.S.

Army, the City of New Haven, and Texas Children's Hospital, have been spotlighted.

The Edelman competition has recognized the use of operations research in significant cost savings, most recently $130 million at HP and $600 million at Motorola.

Operations Research, known as the...

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... DNC: Health News - Safety Concerns Contributed to Slowdown in Drug Sales Growth .transparent { width: 183px; height: 97px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='/images/dnc_logo_blend_trans.png', sizingMethod='scale'); } /* Then, hook-up the worthy browsers */ .transparent[title="divTitle"] { width: 183px; height: 97px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; background: transparent url(/images/dnc_logo_blend_trans.png); } Home Tue, 15 Feb 2005 GMT NEWS YOU CAN TRUST Browser Preferences Add to Favorites Main Menu Home - - - - - Hot Topics - - - - - Drug Safety Flu Vaccine Shortage - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Addictions & Dependencies Alternative Medicine Children's Health Diet & Nutrition Disabilities Diseases & Conditions Drugs & Herbs Environmental Health Fitness & Exercise Genetic Research Health Insurance Medical Ethics Men's Health Mental Health Parenting Pregnancy Public Health & Safety Senior Care Sexual Health Stem Cell Research Women's Health World Health - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Web Links FAQ About Us Contact Us XML News Feeds HEALTH NEWS Safety Concerns Contributed to Slowdown in Drug Sales Growth Contributed by William Angelos | 15 February, 2005  14:40 GMT “By year-end, the prescription COX-2 and NSAID market saw a 9 percent decline in total patients.

This demonstrates how critical it is for pharmaceutical compa...