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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…
The Impact of Consumer Attitudes on Behavior: A Cross-Section Study
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The Nader Report And The Goals And Limits Of Antitrust
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The Philosophy and Design of the Simufort Language
The training of students in the techniques of system simulation is more than merely teaching them how to program in a simulation language. Yet, all too often projects or class exercises become bogged down in the tricks necessary to “outsmart” a…
The Problems and Politics of Change: Power, Conflict, and the Information Services Subunit
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A Three-Stage Manpower Planning And Scheduling Model -- A Service Sector Example
This paper presents a staff planning and scheduling model that has specific application in the nurse staffing process in acute hospitals and more general application in many other service organizations in which de- mand and production…
Two Period Stochastic Programs with Simple Recourse
Stochastic programs are said to have simple recourse if the state vector in each period is uniquely determined once all previous decision and random vectors are known. This paper considers two period problems of this nature. Conditions are…
Unobtrusive Marketing Research Techniques
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