GE Capital structured leveraged leases by optimization instead of trial and error
An optimization model scheduling a leveraged lease's rental and debt payments became an optional engine in GE Capital's lease analysis package.
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1,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDVan Syckle's 1865 pipeline moved crude by pipe and broke the teamsters' barrel monopoly
Frustrated by wagon-team cartels, Samuel Van Syckle laid the world's first oil pipeline out of Pithole — one two-inch pipe doing the work of 300 teams.
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MoHFW and UNDP instrumented the vaccine cold chain with SIM loggers and app-based stock ledgers, giving real-time visibility from warehouse to village clinic.
Read the caseFacing a government censor, game makers built their own ratings board in months
In 1994 the game industry created the ESRB to preempt a threatened federal regulator, and voluntary retail enforcement gave the self-made label real teeth.
Read the caseERC-721 gave Ethereum's unique tokens one interface, so any NFT trades in any market
After CryptoKitties clogged Ethereum, its makers wrote one interface for unique tokens: any wallet or marketplace that speaks it can trade every NFT.
Read the caseArpad Elo rated the surprise, not the result, and chess got one comparable number
A physics professor replaced win-counts with an expected-score formula: ratings move by the size of the surprise, so any two players become comparable.
Read the caseIndia gave every court case one CNR number any citizen could track by phone
The Supreme Court e-Committee and NIC gave every district-court case a unique 14-digit CNR, turning 18,000 court offices into one searchable system.
Read the caseColombia auctioned drought-proof energy as call options to fund dry-year reliability
A hydro grid can't buy 'capacity' — so Colombia auctioned certified dry-year energy bundled with a call option struck at the scarcity price.
Read the caseThe ATA carnet turned border-by-border customs deposits into one passport for goods
One customs document backed by a chain of chamber guarantees lets samples, tools and exhibits cross borders duty-free — with no cash deposits at each frontier.
Read the caseAmazon sized contact centers with mathematical programming, cutting cost per contact
A math-programming planner for Amazon.com's mixed in-house and outsourced contact centers cut the average cost per contact while raising service levels.
Read the caseZarr made giant scientific arrays readable one chunk at a time
Zarr won by storing N-dimensional arrays as independent compressed chunks plus JSON metadata, so cloud tools could read only what they needed.
Read the caseZalando let brands outsource fashion logistics without losing control
Zalando Fulfillment Solutions paired shared warehouses with replenishment forecasts so brands could sell on the platform without shipping every order.
Read the caseYayoiken kept free rice refills by mechanizing the awkward refill
Yayoiken's rice robot let diners choose refill size themselves, preserving a beloved promise while reducing staff contact.
Read the caseWyndham priced rentals from guest choice, not just booking pace
Wyndham Destinations used conditional-logit pricing to lift revenue per unit 3.5% and 5.2% in two regions.
Read the caseWorld Bank auctioned climate subsidies as tradable put options
The PAF paid only for verified emission cuts, after firms bid for the cheapest floor-price guarantee.
Read the caseWorkman made franchise ordering one button and lifted sales 4-5%
Workman built auto-ordering for franchise stores, cutting two-hour buying chores while raising pilot-store sales against controls.
Read the caseWOODS hid cough syrup inside a superstition joke and made it real
WOODS turned 'touch wood' into a limited block-of-wood pack that actually contained cough syrup.
Read the caseWayfair made bulky furniture move through its own pooled network
Wayfair's CastleGate and delivery network gave small furniture suppliers ocean, warehouse and last-mile scale they could not buy alone.
Read the caseVolkswagen ranked supplier fixes by expected disruption savings
Volkswagen Group Logistics used simulation plus a knapsack model to pick supplier-development measures, cutting costs 31%.
Read the caseVodacom used ads as live road warnings before hijack hotspots
Vodacom turned targeted mobile ads into advance warnings for South African drivers approaching high-risk roads.
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