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Leadership Measure of Stanford MBAs
While in school, Stanford MBA students were given a test battery chosen to predict managerial potential. This battery included several instruments that attempt to measure leadership, Leadership Opinion questionnaire, McClelland’s Test of…
Learning from Strategic Success and Failure
Organizations facing complex, ambiguous, and dynamic environments find adaptive learning a key to survival and success. This study proposes three models of organization response in such environments. 1) A model of how aspiration levels or goals…
Monitoring of Performance in Organizational Contracting: The Case of Defense Procurement
This paper presents an agency theoretic analysis of defense procurement contracts. In the model presented the government designs optimal linear compensation contracts for a risk-averse supplier in the presence of moral hazard, private…
Nuclear Weapons, Peace and the Security Dilemma: The Role of Cognitive Processes in Deterrence
For the past forty years, deterrence theory has played a central role in the evolution of U.S. nuclear strategy and national security policy. Proponents of deterrence point to the historical record to argue the theory “works”. Recent critiques of…
On Auditors and the Courts in an Adverse Selection Setting
We study the role an auditor plays in distinguishing among different bankruptcy-risk classes in a setting in which a lender cannot observe the bankruptcy probability of a borrower. The auditor strategically chooses her work intensity as well as…
On DGM and DCS on NBD
The authors have provided an excellent and readable review of the Negative Binominal Distribution (NBD) model and how various violations of its assumptions may impact inferences which may be drawn from the model. They provide a theory of the…
Procurement Contracting: Efficiency, Renegotiation and Performance Evaluation
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Routinized Choice Behavior, Brand Commitment, and Consumer Response to Promotions
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Selling and Trading on Information in Financial Markets
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Specification and Estimation of Intertemporal Asset Pricing Models
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Stock Dividends, Stock Splits and Signalling
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Strategy-Making as a Social Learning Process: The Case of Internal Corporate Venturing
Based on grounded theorizing efforts, this paper presents a prelminary conceptual framework of strategy-making as a social learning process. The juxtaposition of archival and interview data concerning threee internal corporate venturing…
Subperiod Aggregation and the Power of Multivariate Tests of Portfolio Efficiency
When testing portfolio efficiency, empiricists usually perform tests using subperiods and aggregate the results in some manner. While the power of individual subperiod tests has been studied previously, little is known about the power of the…
Successive Myopic Approximations for Capacity Expansion Problems
A capacity expansion problem is one of choosing the timing, location, and sizing of productive capacity to respond to demand forecasts at minimum cost. Capacity expansion models for realistic problems tend to be too large for present methods that…
The Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model
We provide conditions on the primitives of a continuous-time economy under which there exist equilibria obeying the Intertemporal Consumption-Based Capital Asset Pricing Model (ICCAPM). We do not use a Markovian state assumption.
The Dynamics of Consumer Response To Price Discounts
The authors examine the nature of dynamic consumer response to promotional price discounts. The approach begins with the promise that consumers form expectations about future price discounting based on their exposure to such activity at the point…
The Effect of Stochasticity on Optimal Harvesting Strategies in Some Lumped-Parameter Fishery Models
This paper introduces some methods for anticipating the difference between optimal harvesting strategies in a fishery model with stochastic recruitment and for the analogous deterministic model with recruitment equal to its expected value. The…
The Marginals Never Vanished?
In a recent article Gary Jacobson concludes that “House incumbents are no safer now than they were in a the 1950s; the marginals, properly defined, have not vanished; the swing ratio has diminished little, if at all; and competition for House…