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Attributes of Successful MBAs: A Twenty-Year Longitudinal Study
Are attributes of successful MBAs useful for predicting success, and thereby improving business management? In a twenty-year study of Stanford MBAs, 15 and 20 year results have identified the extreme importance to success of sociability. The…
Dual Career Couples: Anxiety of MBA Couples Compared with Traditional Couples
The anxiety of members of dual career couples was compared with that of more traditional couples where only the husband worked outside the home. MBA husbands with children whose MBA wives were also employed outside the home showed more anxiety.…
Lincoln's Leadership: Excellence in War Management
Lincoln’s management of the Civil War used so many of the principles described by Peters and Waterman (1982) in their best selling book, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best Run Companies, that we have attempted to analyze Lincoln…
Strategic Decision Processes in High Velocity Environments: Four Cases in the Microcomputer Industry
Abstract not available.
Stanford MBA Careers: A 20 Year Longitudinal Study
Our 20 year studies find that MBAs are happy, prosperous, and are moving from large to small business. On average they are either very Satisfied , or Satisfied with their jobs. Their median earnings at 20 years out in 1981, 1982, and 1983,…
Undiscounted Approximations of Discounted Regenerative Models
This paper approximates the discounted average cost in regenerative models by an undiscounted average cost. A financial holding cost is assessed on expenditures that are incurred earlier than the middle of each cycle. Explicit upper and lower…
Accrual Mobility: Job Mobility in Higher Education Through Responsibility Accrual
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Inventory Policies for Periodic Review Systems
This paper introduces three new methods for computing approximately optimal inventory policies for discrete time shortage cost systems. Two of the methods are shortcuts based on the method of Freeland and Porteus [1980] and one is a heuristic…
Audience Presence During Breaks in Television Programmes
Experiments on the use of electricity data as an unobtrusive measure of household behaviour during breaks in television programmes have provided some new insights.Whilst confirming much of accepted “presence” research, there is a clear indication…
Economic Dispatch of Electric Power by Stochastic Linear Programming
Operational improvements in the short-run scheduling of electric power generation can accrue considerable economic and fossil-fuel savings. This study has undertaken an evaluation of the worth and practicality of using “stochastic linear…
Inventory Policies for Periodic Review Systems: Supporting Details
This paper provides details and derivations that support Porteus [1982].
Operations as Strategy: Lessons From Japan
The past year has witnessed tremendous interest in Japanese management practice. Owing in part to the increasingly worldwide competitive environment, and more particularly, the survivability of certain U.S. industries (television, automobiles,…
The Ex Ante and Ex Post Price Effects of Quarterly Earnings Announcements Reflected in Options and Stock Prices
Abstract not available.
Easily Computed Inventory Policies for Periodic Review Systems: Shortage Cost and Service Level Models
This paper builds on prior work of the authors by developing a shortcut method for determining approximately optimal (s,S) inventory policies for use in a periodic review inventory system in which shortage costs are assessed. The method seems to…
Exact Solution of Crew Scheduling Problems Using the Set Partitioning Model: Recent Successful Applications
The set partitioning model of the crew rotation problem has been well known for many years. This paper focuses on recent developments that have made this model more attractive and have resulted in several successful implementations. These…
Facilities Focus: A Study of Concepts and Practices Related to Its Definition, Evaluation, Significance, and Application in Manufacturing Firms
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Improved Iterative Computation of the Expected Discounted Return in Markov and Semi-Markov Chains
This paper seeks to reduce the computation needed by iterative methods to find the expected discounted return in a finite semi-Markov or Markov chain. Two new norm reducing extrapolations and a new iterative method are presented and shown to be…
A Lagrangean Relaxation Algorithm for the Two Duty Period Scheduling Problem
The two duty period scheduling problem is an integer programming problem with 0-1 constraint coefficients. It is recognized that the problem can be reformulated as a one duty period problem with side constraints. Since the one duty period problem…
Allocation of Managerial Effort: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Decision Strategies, Environment and Performance
The work presented in this paper investigates behaviorally plausible rules for making decisions in complex situations. A rule is plausible if it iss consistent with assumptions concerning limits on a decision maker’s information processing…