Balancing the amount of advertising and content affects the profitability of the web site and its attractiveness to potential visitors. This tradeoff is modeled as a control problem for a web site manager who is maximizing the net present value of cash flows by controlling the amount of...

Technology adoption has become an important management issue in today's decentralized organizations. Disparate systems and the attendant incompatibility costs between users and departments within an organization can create inefficiencies and reduce productivity. Fortunately,the managers of the...

"Fixed-Up-To" (FUT) tariffs, which are commonly used for pricing telecommunication services, are made up of three parts: a monthly subscription fee (or fixed fee), a usage-limit (or allowance), and an over-limit rate that is used for pricing consumptions in excess of the usage-limit. Typically,...

Many patients have a choice of a provider for acute care, typically choosing between an Urgent Care facility (UC) or an Emergency Department of a hospital (ED). This choice is made by a patient who is generally not herself a trained medical professional. She is strategic but imperfectly informed...

Many successful open source projects have been developed by who were employed by firms but worked on the open source projects on the side due to economic incentives like career improvement benefits. Such side work may be a good thing for the employing firms too if they get some strategic value...

The question as to the optimality of advertising pulsing has attracted many researchers since first posed by Vidale and Wolfe (1957). In this paper we specify a market share model in which there are two advertising setting firms as well as a no purchase state. The framework is one of a first...