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Optimal Portfolio Selection In A Log-normal Market When The Investor's Utility-function Is Logarithmic
The paper analyzes the portfolio choice problem when the investor has logarithmic utility of wealth and asset returns have a multivariate lognormal distribution. It is shown that there exists a surrogate problem (objective function) which has the…
Outward-Looking Strategies: Policies of Developed Countries
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Performance Evaluation and Project Management
A number of problems have plagued the development of computer systems, especially software projects. One method to help manage such projects is to use performance evaluation techniques for each stage of the development effort. The appropriate…
A Planning Methodology for Product Startups
The problem of maintaining a balance between production output and demand growth during new product introductions is analyzed. In many cases, the introduction of a new product results in both rapid demand growth and significant changes in the…
A Procedure for Job Shop Scheduling with Due Dates, Variable Processing Times, and a Dynamic Arrival Process
An iterative machine procedure is described for job shop scheduling with due dates. The procedure uses a multi-pass heuristic scheduling program originally developed for static problems with deterministic processing times. Examples are included…
Relation of Second Year MBA Grades to Business Earnings
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Risk and Return on Short Positions in Common Stock
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A Sequential Decision Model Of Bargaining Theory
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Skewness Preference and the Valuation of Risk Assets
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Socio-Cultural Factors And Inter-Organizational Relations
In a study of consulates and embassies as examples of international branch organizations it is found that similarity of sociocultural background is strongly related to interactions between these organizations when located in a single host environ…
Some Final Results on a Five-Year Follow Up on Seven Classes
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Spatial Configurations, Regional Memberships And The Interactions Of Consular/Diplomatic Officers
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A State-Preference Model Of Optimal Financial Leverage
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Technological Consulting in a Grass Roots, Action Oriented Organization
The relationship which developed between the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and the Stanford Graduate School of Business on a joint project to computerize portions of the Union’s information processing activities is described. The…
The Bond Refunding Decision in an Efficient Market
Bond refunding is a zero-sum game against the market. Market efficiency implies that a callable bond is, ex ante, no more or less attractive than a noncallable bond. The decision maker can be presumed to have no superiority over bond investors in…
The Design And Operation Of The Livingston Health Services Data System
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The Dynamics of MBA Success
A longitudinal study was undertaken to discover the relationships between the job success of MBA’s and their scores on psychological tests, peer evaluations, and questionnaires administered five and ten years after graduation. Of 45 respondents…
The Effect of Panel Turnover on Errors in Variables Regression
Errors in variables regression techniques are used when one or more of the independent variables in an econometric model are subject to sampling or measurement error. These techniques require one to estimate the variances and covariances of the…