Management Science news

21/06/16

Management Science students work with BES Utilities to reduce energy costs

A group of Masters students have teamed up with a commercial energy supplier to undertake research aimed at reducing energy costs for customers.
08/06/16

LUMS PhD student attends Global Slavery Index event

PhD student Amy Benstead attended the launch of the Global Slavery Index 2016, hosted by Russell Crowe, in London last week.
24/05/16

App created by Lancaster start-up company wins a Google Play Award

An App developed by a LUMS alumnus has won the ‘Early Adopter’ category at the first Google Play Awards.
18/05/16

PhD student works with Pentland to take action on modern slavery

A Management School student has begun a major new action research project with an international clothing and footwear company to develop anti-modern slavery tools.
12/05/16

Successful LCF Workshop on New Product Forecasting

Lancaster Centre for Forecasting (LCF) hosted a very stimulating half-day workshop on New Product Forecasting on 22 April in London, with an attendance of about forty practitioners from a wide variety of organisations.
26/04/16

Is the sporting world putting money before fairness?

Making it into the world championships can depend more on rules than skill, claim Professor Mike Wright, Professor John M Norman from the University of Sheffield and Professor Graham Kendall from the University of Nottingham.
13/04/16

Leading sustainability thinkers gather in Lancaster for EurOMA Forum

Around 80 leading academics from around the world arrived in Lancaster earlier this week for the 3rd International EurOMA Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains Forum.
11/04/16

LUMS academic awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship

Professor Monideepa Tarafdar, from the Department of Management Science, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2017-2018.
07/04/16

Management Science internships to give undergraduates an insight into PhD study

Applications are now open for the summer internship scheme within Lancaster’s Department of Management Science.
22/03/16

LUMS subjects rank in top 100 in QS World University Rankings 2016

Lancaster University Management School has been ranked in the top 100 worldwide in a number of subject areas.
11/03/16

Professor Robert Fildes presents annual Beale Lecture

Distinguished Professor Robert Fildes, from Lancaster's Department of Management Science, delivered the annual Beale Lecture on 24 February, in recognition of his award in 2014 of the UK Operational Research Society’s prestigious Beale medal.

10/03/16

OR-MASTER project lead discusses airport congestion

As it is revealed that Q3 2015 was the busiest ever for airline passenger numbers,Konstantinos Zografos talks about his research on Radio 4.
09/03/16

London is greener than you think as plans for world’s first National City Park gain momentum

New research carried out by Lancaster University Management School has revealed that London is much greener than most people think.
26/02/16

Improved tactical sales forecasting for global supply chains: how to use leading indicators?

Long term tactical sales forecasts are vital for effective steering of global supply chains. Events and changing markets can cause radical changes from business as usual. How can manufacturers update their forecasts?
05/02/16

19th IIF workshop on Supply Chain Forecasting for Operations

The Lancaster centre for Forecasting is hosting a two-day workshop on 28th and 29th June at Lancaster University on this important topic and are looking for speakers to share their latest thinking. The workshop is sponsored by the software company SAS and the International Institute of Forecasters, with selected papers being published in the International Journal of Forecasting. 
19/01/16

Solving the county cricket fixtures: half human, half computer

Cricket Yorkshire explains how a computer program developed by Professor Mike Wright is used to draw up the county cricket fixtures. 
05/01/16

Wellbeing for flexible workers

Professor Monideepa Tarafdar discusses her research on the dark side of IT in this article in HR Magazine. 
22/12/15

EPSRC-funded PhD studentships in Operational Research offered

The Department of Management Science is looking to recruit up to four researchers in the fields of Optimisation, Forecasting and Simulation.
30/11/15

Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas sales – can we forecast their effects?

Can we predict and manage the effect of promotions in supply chains? Are promotions beneficial to retailers? Nikolaos Kourentzes and Oliver Schaer discuss.
10/11/15

Saeideh D. Nasiri wins Kingsman Prize 2015

Saeideh D. Nasiri, graduate from the PhD programme in Statistics and Operational Research for Industry (STOR-i), has been named the winner of this year's Kingsman Prize.
20/10/15

Successful workshop on Promotional Modelling and Forecasting

The Lancaster Centre for Forecasting (LCF) organised a successful and highly stimulating workshop on "Promotional Modelling and Forecasting". This was held on 7 October 2015 at BMA House in London and was free to attend for all practitioners and academics in forecasting and marketing analytics. 
22/09/15

Tackling the dark side of office IT

Work magazine, from the CIPD, has featured Monideepa Tarafdar's research into "techno stress". 
02/09/15

Firms that exploit the dark side of technology will find it leads to losses as well as gains

Following allegations of harsh working practices at Amazon, Monideepa Tarafdar talks about the dangers of technology in the workplace.
10/08/15

Masters students rise to consultancy challenge for local firm

A Blackburn-based telecommunications company has joined forces with a team of LUMS students to evaluate their e-marketing.