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MANSCI
2008
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Learning, Forgetting, and Sales
Sofia Berto Villas-Boas, J. Miguel Villas-Boas
MANSCI
2008
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Can They Take It With Them? The Portability of Star Knowledge Workers' Performance
This paper examines the portability of star security analysts' performance. Star analysts who switched employers experienced an immediate decline in performance that persiste...
Boris Groysberg, Linda-Eling Lee, Ashish Nanda
MANSCI
2008
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Service Adoption and Pricing of Content Delivery Network (CDN) Services
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a vital component of the Internet's content delivery value chain, servicing nearly a third of the Internet's most popular content si...
Kartik Hosanagar, John C.-I. Chuang, Ramayya Krish...
MANSCI
2008
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Corporate Venturing, Allocation of Talent, and Competition for Star Managers
We provide new rationales for corporate venturing (CV), based on competition for talented managers. As returns to venturing increase, ...rms engage in CV for reasons other than ca...
Jean-Etienne de Bettignies, Gilles Chemla
MANSCI
2008
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Generating Objectives: Can Decision Makers Articulate What They Want?
Samuel D. Bond, Kurt A. Carlson, Ralph L. Keeney
MANSCI
2006
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Multiplicative Background Risk
Although there has been much attention in recent years on the effects of additive background risks, the same is not true for its multiplicative counterpart. We consider random wea...
Günter Franke, Harris Schlesinger, Richard C....
MANSCI
2006
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Pricing American-Style Derivatives with European Call Options
We present a new approach to pricing American-style derivatives that is applicable to any Markovian setting (i.e., not limited to geometric Brownian motion) for which European cal...
Scott B. Laprise, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus,...
MANSCI
2006
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Supply Chain Choice on the Internet
Internet companies extensively use the practice of drop-shipping, where the wholesaler stocks and owns the inventory and ships products directly to customers at retailers' re...
Serguei Netessine, Nils Rudi