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Lovejoy, William S. - 2010

We consider a firm that designs a new product and wishes to bring it to market, but does not have ownership or control over all of the resources required to make that happen. The firm must select and contract with one of several possible tier 1 suppliers for necessary inputs, who do the same...

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Three Essays on the Economics of Information Systems.

Jian, Lian - 2010

My dissertation contains three studies centering on the question: how to motivate people to share high quality information on online information aggregation systems, also known as social computing systems? I take a social scientific approach to identify the strategic behavior of individuals in...

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Tale of two Koreas

Ratten, Vanessa; Waechter, Estelle - 2007

The economic performances of North and South Korea over the past decade have differed significantly. This is largely due to the government policies of the two countries, which affect business in conflicting ways. Despite the differences in economic growth, there are a number of similarities...

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Are self-evaluations helpful or harmful when employees are unaware of their marginal contribution to firm welfare?

Kachelmeier, Steven J. (contributor); … - 2010

This study examines whether eliciting self-evaluations increases or decreases the propensity of a productive agent to retaliate against an employer for paying compensation that the agent perceives to be too low for the work performed. Specifically, I consider a setting in which a principal knows...

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An analysis on starting up a specific small business

Lewis, Kyle (contributor) - 2010

A unique business opportunity has been presented to me. I have been invited to create a small business that would initially offer mechanical design services to two main customer segments: automotive and biomedical device companies. My main responsibility is to help frame the small business and...

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Optimal allocation of trucking workload at GE Consumer and Industrial.

Yang, Xu - 2007

based on quantitative analysis. Several linear programming models were developed to help the management of the Consumer and …

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Methods for focusing on customer orientation in the early phases in the innovation process.

Cimander, Philipp - 2010

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Interview with Frances Hesselbein

Hesselbein, Frances

Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. In this interview she describes her first encounter with Drucker at a … development of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and both her and Drucker’s roles in its development and …

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Homer Sarasohn interview, 1988-07-02, part 3

Sarasohn, Homer - 1988

lists management objectives and says that the job of a leader is to exemplify the strengths he or she sees in his or her … believes that there is an adversarial relationship between company management and employees, and that there are very few … quieted down. Sarasohn mentions organizations that serve as Japanese management resources and lists the updates he would like …

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A day with Peter F. Drucker, volume X, tape 2

Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand) - 1991

During Peter Drucker’s talk entitled "The Expanding Leadership of Mid-Sized Organizations" he discusses why mid-sized companies have excelled and what they require to maintain their competitive advantage. During his lecture, he talks about: multinationals, the growth of imports, Boeing and...

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