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Working Paper

Behavioral Measurement For Marketing Models: Estimating The Effects Of Advertising Repetition For Media Planning

Michael L. Ray, Alan Sawyer
1971

As management science models are developed in marketing, they make demands for more sophisticated inputs from the behavioral sciences. This is particularly true in the area of advertising media models. A continuing behavioral research program to…

Working Paper

Cost And Performance Of Computer-Assisted Instruction For Education Of Disadvantaged Children

J. Dexter Fletcher
1971

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

Decision Processes for Major Durables: An Empirical View

William K. Brandt, George S. Day
1971

Abstract not available.

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Distance And Health Services: Issues Of Utilization And Facility Choice For Demographic Strata

William J. Abernathy, Edward L. Schrems
1971

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

Earnings Of MBA's In The Classes Of 1961-65

Thomas W. Harrell
1971

Abstract not available.

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Engineering Roles in Development Projects

Francis W. Wolek
1971

This paper describes a methodology for analyzing the organization of engineering development projects. Specifically, the methodology focuses on the different roles which engineers play in such projects. A small study based on this methodology…

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Equivalent Formulations of the Stochastic Cash Balance Problem

Evan L. Porteus
1971

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

Estimating Dynamic Effects of Market Communications Expenditures

David Bruce Montgomery (1938–2025), Alvin J. Silk
1971

This paper is concerned with the problem of measuring market response to a “communications mix” — the various means which a firm employs to transmit sales messages to potential buyers. Distributed lag models are applied to time series data for an…

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Experiments on Reactions to Budget Itemization

Yair Aharoni
1971

Abstract not available.

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Exploratory Cluster Analysis and Nonmetric Scaling of Multitrait-Multimethod Matrices

Roger Heeler, Michael L. Ray
1971

A review of existing methods for exploratory analysis of the multitrait-multimethod matrix finds them lacking because of inferential biases, overly stringent data input requirements, and linear assumptions. The advantages of a cluster analysis…

Working Paper

Future Research on Racial Discrimination

William S. Comanor
1971

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

High Earning MBA'S

Thomas W. Harrell
1971

Abstract not available.

Book

How Much is Enough?

Alain C. Enthoven, K. Wayne Smith
Harper & Roo 1971

A work of enduring value and lasting relevance, this book is both a classic account of the application of powerful ideas to the problem of managing the Department of Defense (DoD) and a cautionary history of the controversies inspired by that…

Journal Article

How to Get a Better Forecast

George G.C. Parker
Harvard Business Review 1971
Working Paper

Interperiod Tax Allocation And The Behavior Of Security Prices

William H. Beaver (1940–2024), Roland Dukes
1971

The measurement of earnings has been of continuing concern to accountants and to users of accounting data. Because an unlimited number of possible reporting methods exists, and because the collection, storage, reporting and analysis of data are…

Working Paper

Issues in the Design of Information Systems

William Massy
1971

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

Location for Best Service

William J. Abernathy, John C. Hershey
1971

Abstract not available.

Working Paper

Measure Validation in Marketing

Roger M. Heeler, Michael L. Ray
1971

Many of the controversies in marketing science in the past have revolved around particular consumer behavior variables such as attitudes, risk avoidance, opinion leadership, brand loyalty, commitment, innovativeness, price sensitivity, social…

Working Paper

More on Quadratic Programming

Evan L. Porteus
1971

The positive definite, equalities case of quadratic programming with n variables is converted into an n dimensional symmetric positive semidefinite linear complementarity problem, which can be solved by any of several methods, including a…