I think that was the last time I tried to submit a manuscript to the Journal

[cunctator_]

The success of the Sears program was built significantly on a focus on investigating data and carefully designed and analyzed field experiments, rather than preconceived “models.” At one point in the work, a colleague, Jerome Herniter, and I submitted a paper to the Journal of the Operations Research Society, describing the customer population

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[profpr]

Twice during the past year I had to fight the reviewers that tried their best to kill my manuscript because it did not have a hypothesis - which I would fail to reject. How would I have a hypothesis if it's a fresh new field, for God's sake? I won at the end, but it took me ~9 months in both cases. Hated it.