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Theorem Of The Maximin And Applications To Bayesian Zero-Sum Games
Feb 2010
Consider a family of zero-sum games indexed by parameter that determines each player's payoff functions and feasible strategies. The first main result characterizes continuity assumptions on the...
Provided by INSEAD
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Erin Anderson And The Path Breaking Work Of TCE In New Areas Of Business Research: Transaction Costs In Action
May 2010
This review paper synthesizes Erin Anderson's academic contribution, with an emphasis on two path breaking aspects of her work, namely the operationalization of TCA in different contexts and the...
Provided by INSEAD
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CEO Turnover And Relative Performance Evaluation
May 2008
This paper examines whether CEOs are fired after bad firm performance caused by factors beyond their control. Standard economic theory predicts that corporate boards filter out exogenous industry...
Provided by Stanford University
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Mixex: Mixtures Of Multiattribute Exponential Utilities
Nov 2008
An important challenge in multiattribute decision analysis is the choice of an appropriate functional form for the utility function. The authors show that if a decision maker prefers more of any...
Provided by INSEAD
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The Retailer Needs to Be Paid for Sopghisticated Decisions: Modelling Promotional Interactions Between Consumers, Retailers and Brand Managers
Jul 2008
Competition among brands that sell through a supermarket chain is a repeated moderated oligopoly, where the retailer moderates brand competition by choosing the store promotions that consumers see...
Provided by INSEAD
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What Makes A Test Score? The Respective Contributions Of Pupils, Schools, And Peers In Achievement In English Primary Education
Sep 2008
This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. The authors implement this...
Provided by INSEAD
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Reconciliating Support Theory And The Book-Making Principle
Feb 2008
Support theory postulates that probability judgments for uncertain events depend on the description of events. The authors show that the theory violates basic consistency requirements for...
Provided by INSEAD
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Reflections On Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Jan 2008
For the author, the essential distinction between risk and uncertainty was that risk was characterized by known probability distributions with observable outcomes, and such outcomes could...
Provided by INSEAD
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Expected Utility Theory
Nov 2007
This paper is a modern look at a decision theory and social choice. It emphasizes recent developments that go beyond the classic theory of utility and expected utility. However, a sensible...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Gray Markets, Demand Uncertainty, And Excess Inventory
Mar 2010
The legal diversion of large quantities of goods from authorized distribution channels to unauthorized or "Gray market" channels has important consequences to both firms and consumers through...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Entrepreneurs And Newsvendors: Do Small Businesses Follow The Newsvendor Logic When Making Inventory Decisions?
Aug 2007
This work empirically assesses the degree to which inventory decisions made by entrepreneurs and small businesses are informed by the logic underlying the newsvendor or base stock model and are...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
"Consensus Building And Value Conflicts: Lessons From CALFED"
Mar 2009
Much has been said about the need and benefits of consensus building for resolving disagreements about water and environmental management. Less has been said about how to better convene and...
Provided by National University of Singapore School of Business
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White Papers
Destruction Of Value: An Analysis Of Manager Selection Decisions By Institutional Plan Sponsors
Sep 2007
Prior research has examined the institutional asset management industry and documented the factors which influence plan sponsors' decisions to place assets with investment products or managers....
Provided by Boston University School of Management
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White Papers
Leadership Style And Conflict In Decision Making Groups
Sep 2007
This paper reviews the existing research on conflict in decision making groups, and the limited research on the effect of leadership style on such groups. The preferred leader actions are...
Provided by University of Nebraska
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Webcasts
Healthcare Case Study: The Doctor Will B.R.M.S. You Now (New York Times article)
Aug 2010
Learn how Vanderbilt University uses business rules in complex, critical patient care decisions to deliver increased speed and accuracy and arrive at better outcomes.
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Integrating Risk Management With Business Strategy
Mar 2010
This webcast focuses on integrating risk management framework within the business decision making process. Key business decisions impact both the strategy definition and the execution. Without...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Webcasts
Driving Decisions With Predictive Analytics: The Top Business Applications
Sep 2009
The value proposition is straight-forward and proven: Predictive analytics produces business insight that delivers. The customer predictions generated by predictive analytics deliver more relevant...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Webcasts
Innovating In Times Of Trouble And Plenty
May 2009
This Webcast will cover the top ten list of how the global economy shapes business decisions. In the boardroom, we grew up in a predictive strategy mode. We're now in an emerging strategy mode....
Provided by SAS Institute
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Webcasts
Managing Volatility - Practical Tools For Planning And Managing In Today's Uncertain World
Feb 2009
This webcast discusses some of the practical tools and techniques that can help provide insight for effective decision-making. This session is designed for business and finance executives who are...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Webcasts
Alternative Approaches For Forecasting New, Low Volume, Or Highly Seasonal Items
Mar 2009
Product portfolios will always evolve to meet the demands of customers, but in difficult economic times the decision to add or eliminate products has even more risk. This webcast describes...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Webcasts
Putting Predictive Analytics To Work
Apr 2009
Seeking out increasingly small margins has brought analytics into vogue. Organizations realize that they can gain analytic insights about customers, products, channels, partners and much more. But...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Loyalty Vs. Ethics: From The White House To The Workplace
Jul 2008
What happens to an organization's credibility when its leadership is accused of wrongdoing? How should managers and employees handle conflicts between loyalty to the organization and its leaders...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Everything You Need To Know About Running A Project Meeting
Jul 2009
It's a fact of business life: every project requires periodic meetings where the stakeholders get together to discuss the project's goals, assigned tasks, and progress. It's up to the project...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Overcoming Consensus Paralysis
Jul 2010
One of the simplest things is also the one that derails many IT transformation efforts: the ability to make decisions. Whether it's because people are afraid of hurting feelings or that they just...
Provided by CastlePointe
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White Papers
Encouraging Initiative
Jun 2010
Encouraging employee initiative makes sense. By allowing employees a more active role in problem solving, managers increase staff feelings of satisfaction with their jobs while freeing themselves...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Peter Drucker's Story Of Two Vice Presidents (Why What Everybody Knows Is Frequently Wrong)
Nov 2007
In modern times, the impact of mass agreement about an issue has been addressed and confirmed in psychological research. In one experiment, subjects were asked to rate the attractiveness of...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Deal Or No Deal: Making The Right Decision
Aug 2007
Every day we are confronted with decisions that affect our lives in varying degrees. When a crisis occurs or tough choices need to be made, the ability to make accurate judgments is essential. At...
Provided by American Management Association
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White Papers
Decision-Making: The Lifeblood Of Business
Apr 2010
All business owners and leaders know that decision-making is what makes and breaks a business. One is often faced with what not-to-do, and that kind of effort takes up more brain power than...
Provided by American Express
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Downloads
BRMS Demo: Author and deploy rules using WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System
Aug 2010
Learn how the WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System (JRules BRMS) can automate decision making for data validation, eligibility and pricing in a real-world scenario. This demo...
Provided by IBM
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Downloads
BRMS Video: BRMS 101: Introduction to Business Rules Management
Aug 2010
"Has your organization run into difficulties adapting to evolving business conditions? Is there interest in being able to increase the efficiency of your operational processes? Are your business...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Break The Golden Rule
Aug 2009
It's not hard for most of the people to recall a time when one lets people down by inaccurately anticipating their preferences or expectations. Whether it's the wrong birthday gift for a spouse or...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Momentum Bias: Transcend The Trend
Jul 2009
Humans have an almost innate tendency to identify recent trends and subconsciously project them into the future. Whether playing sports, investing in the markets, or picking someone up at a bar,...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Embracing Your Inner Customer
Jun 2009
It never seems to fail. We all know companies who provide bad service or make decisions that will undoubtedly upset and anger customers - and we always wonder why. Yet, at the same time, many of...
Provided by American Express
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Case Studies
IT service management in an uncertain economy: Financial Services podcast
Aug 2010
This 9 minute podcast provides an overview of the results from a global survey recently conducted by IBM to identify the impact of economic uncertainty on the financial services industry. The...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Are You A Small Business Owner That Wants To Make The Right Decisions About Your Company ?
Mar 2010
You are probably already aware of resources like magazines and websites, but these forums don't always offer the right type of advice for your real-life issues. It is difficult to be at the head...
Provided by SooperArticles
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White Papers
Journal of Management Excellence - Creating Options
Jan 2010
In a down economy, organizations often busy themselves doing the same day-to-day activities just trying to survive. "Cut costs and sell more" is the main directive, and, chances are, competitors...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Reporting 2.0: The Next Evolutionary Step In Business Reporting
Jan 2010
Reporting is the primary tool used by over 80% of information consumers to support decision making. The reason for the ubiquitous adoption of Reporting is its ability to provide a real-time and...
Provided by Synaptris
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White Papers
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
Aug 2010
People have probably all learned a lesson the hard way a time or two. Many good leaders learn how to do it the right way by either observing others' mistakes or making their own. If people adapt,...
Provided by Reynolds Consulting
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Podcasts
Power And The Illusion Of Control
Jan 2010
Niro Sivanathan's latest research investigates why power creates the illusion of control over uncontrollable situations, perhaps leading to some of the risky decisions that contributed to the...
Provided by London Business School
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Webcasts
Olympian And alumnus Jim Scherr Visits Kellogg
Oct 2007
Take accountability and make decisions, Jim Scherr told students during his visit. "Decisions will make themselves unless you make them when they hit your desk."
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Learning, Public Good Provision, And The Information Trap
May 2008
The authors consider an economy where decision maker(s) do not know the true production function for a public good. By using Bayes rule they can learn from experience. They show that the economy...
Provided by University of Zurich
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Liquidity Preference And Information
Mar 2010
This paper explores the link between anticipated information and a preference for liquidity in investment choices. Given a subjective ordering of investment portfolios by their liquidity, the...
Provided by University of London
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Communication In The Boardroom
Apr 2008
Communication is at the core of good governance, yet, because of data constraints, research on boardroom communication is almost nonexistent. The author examines communication in the boardroom...
Provided by Stockholm Institute for Financial Research
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What Does CEOs' Personal Leverage Tell Us About Corporate Leverage?
Aug 2009
The authors find that firms behave remarkably similarly to how their CEOs behave personally when it comes to leverage choices. They start the analysis by compiling a comprehensive sample of home...
Provided by Stockholm Institute for Financial Research
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Networks And Buyer Behaviour At The Base Of The Pyramid (BOP)
Aug 2008
Networks traditionally have been studied in the context of areas such as industrial marketing in developed country markets and economics and sociology (focusing on livelihoods) in developing...
Provided by University of Western Sydney
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Network Connectivity And Business Netquakes - Ways To Understand The Spread Of Change
Aug 2008
Business network dynamics are generally discussed from the perspective of a focal business relationship and of relationships (e.g. with customers and/or suppliers) connected to it. Such studies...
Provided by Uppsala University
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How To Extend A Model Of Probabilistic Choice From Binary Choices To Choices Among More Than Two Alternatives
Sep 2009
This paper presents an algorithm that extends a binary choice model to choice among multiple alternatives. Both neoclassical microeconomic theory and Luce choice model are consistent with the...
Provided by University of Zurich
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An Experimental Study Of Jury Deliberation
Sep 2009
The authors study the effects of deliberation on collective decisions. In a series of experiments, they vary groups' preference distributions (between common and conflicting interests) and the...
Provided by University of Zurich
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Biased Experts, Costly Lies, And Binary Decisions
Jul 2010
Decision makers lacking crucial specialist know-how often consult with better informed but biased experts. In the model the decision maker's choice problem is binary and her preferred option...
Provided by University of Zurich
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Do Groups Fall Prey To The Winner's Curse?
Sep 2010
In a company takeover experiment, groups placed better bids than individuals and substantially reduced the winner's curse. This improvement was mostly due to peer pressure over the minority...
Provided by University of Zurich
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Management Decision Making By The Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Proposed Modification For Large-Scale Problems
Sep 2008
The use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for decision making is sometimes marred by the laborious effort of conducting a large number of pairwise comparisons, especially in the presence of...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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ND Expert: What's At Stake In Google's China Decision
Mar 2010
Even as Google debates discontinuing its operations in China, there are larger Internet security issues at stake, says information security expert John D'Arcy, assistant professor of information...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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Social Capital, Ethnicity And Decision-Making In The Philippine Vegetable Market
Sep 2007
The paper tackles the issue of social capital as observed in several ethnically bonded groups of agricultural rural communities in the mountainous regions of northern Philippines. In the first...
Provided by University of Bonn
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The Role Of Fear In Home-Biased Decision Making: First Insights From Neuroeconomics
Nov 2007
The authors used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging ("fMRI") to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying home - biased, financial decision-making. Twenty-eight subjects were instructed to...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Firm Value And The Mis-Use Of The CAPM For Valuation And Decision Making
Feb 2008
This paper shows that a decision maker using the CAPM for valuing firms and making decisions may contradict Modigliani and Miller's Proposition I, if he adopts the widely-accepted disequilibrium...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Committees Versus Individuals: An Experimental Analysis Of Monetary Policy Decision Making
Nov 2007
The authors report the results of an experimental analysis of monetary policy decision making under uncertainty. A large sample of economics students played a simple monetary policy game, both as...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Analysis And Intuition: Californian Survey On Strategic Decision Making
Jun 2008
Many management scholars believe that the process used to make strategic decisions affects the quality of those decisions. Several authors, however, have observed a lack of research on the...
Provided by Universitatea Petru Maior
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Review Of Two Management Science Techniques Applied To Decision Making In The Telecommunications Industry
Jun 2009
Modern managers increasingly base their business decisions on the evaluation and interpretation of data. To assist with the decision making process, many mathematical models can be applied. In...
Provided by Northwest University
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Information Theory And Knowledge-Gathering
Nov 2007
It is assumed that human knowledge-building depends on a discrete sequential decision-making process subjected to a stochastic information transmitting environment. This environment randomly...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Libertarian Paternalism And Information Sharing
Nov 2009
The authors develop a theoretical model to study the effects of libertarian paternalism on knowledge acquisition and social learning. Individuals in the model are permitted to appreciate and use...
Provided by University of California
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Opinion As Incentives
Dec 2007
The authors study a model where a Decision Maker (DM) must select an adviser to advise her about an unknown state of the world. There is a pool of available advisers who all have the same...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Preference-Theoretic Weak Complementarity: Getting More With Less
Nov 2008
A preference-theoretic characterization of weak complementarity is provided based on an explicit representation of revealed preference. Weak complementarity is defined in terms of the observable...
Provided by Louisiana State University
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The Impact Of Council Voting Rules On EU Decision-Making
Nov 2008
This paper deals with the design of voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules is examined. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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Decision-Making: A Neuroeconomic Perspective
Nov 2007
This paper introduces and discusses from a philosophical point of view the nascent field of neuroeconomics, which is the study of neural mechanisms involved in decision-making and their economic...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Neural Substrates Of Decision-Making In Economic Games
Nov 2007
In economic experiments decisions often differ from game-theoretic predictions. Why are people generous in one-shot ultimatum games with strangers? Is there a benefit to generosity toward...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Relative Remote Rural Areas (RRRA)in Developed Regions: An Analysis Of The Emilia-Romagna Region To Support Policy Decision Making
Nov 2007
This paper addresses the identification and the analysis of the Remote Rural Areas (RRA) that should be at the center of future regional development policies for periphery areas in averagely...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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The Effects Of Detailing On Prescribing Decisions Under Quality Uncertainty
Nov 2007
A fundamental question in pharmaceutical marketing management is: How does the effectiveness of detailing change when additional information on drugs is revealed via patients' experiences during...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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An Evaluation Of Government Efforts To Improve Regulatory Decision Making
Aug 2010
In response to the increasing impact of laws and regulations, several governments have introduced economic analysis as a way of improving regulatory decision making. This paper provides the first...
Provided by University of Manchester
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Information Asymmetries And Regulatory Decision Costs: An Analysis Of U.S. Electric Utility Rate Changes 1980 - 2000
Feb 2010
The authors argue that information asymmetries between regulators and firms increase the administrative decision costs of initiating new policies due to the costs of satisfying evidentiary or...
Provided by University of Western Ontario
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Investment Decisions, Net Present Value And Bounded Rationality
Dec 2007
The Net Present Value maximizing model shows fallacies and inconsistencies that may be easily unmasked by performing a cognitive analysis of the decision-making process implied by the maximization...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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DSS Model Based On Rules And OLAP For Management By Budgets
Jan 2008
Implementing Decision Support System (DSS) for the management by budgets has become one of the top priorities for the vast majority of today's organizations. This system represents a powerful tool...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Potential Recruits Seek Information Online For Military Enlistment Decision-Making
Aug 2009
How do potential recruits decide to enlist in the military? What information do they seek on which to base career decisions? The Internet increasingly provides a medium for advertising and...
Provided by RAND
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Financial Decision Making And Cognition In A Family Context
Sep 2010
In this paper, the authors studied the association of cognitive traits and in particular numeracy of both spouses on financial outcomes of the family. They found significant effects, particularly...
Provided by RAND
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Eventological Theory Of Decision-Making
Jun 2009
The eventological theory of decision-making, the theory of event-based decision-making is a theory of decision-making based on eventological principles and using results of mathematical eventology...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Economic Decision-Making In Poverty Depletes Behavioral Control
Dec 2010
Economic theory and common sense suggest that time preference can cause or perpetuate poverty. Might poverty also or instead cause impatient or impulsive behavior? This paper reports a randomized...
Provided by Princeton University
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Travel Decision-Making: The Role Of Habit
Sep 2010
The complexity of travel decision making is widely recognized and has previous been studied by the means of grand models and process studies. This paper has used the Self-Reported Habit Index of...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Decision Making In The Stock Market: Incorporating Psychology With Finance
Mar 2010
The decision-making by individual investors is usually based on their age, education, income, investment portfolio, and other demographic factors. The impact of behavioural aspect of investing is,...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Optimal Boundaries For Decisions
Mar 2011
In this paper the authors state and prove some new results on the optimal boundaries. These boundaries (called Pareto boundaries too) are of increasing importance in the applications to Decision...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Econometrics And Decision Making: Effects Of Presentation Mode
Feb 2010
Much of empirical economics involves regression analysis. However, does the presentation of results affect economists' ability to make inferences for decision making purposes? In a survey, 257...
Provided by Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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A Useful Case Study On Decision Making Related To Financing Methods: Learning About Finance By Study Case
Jun 2008
The finance, nothing else but the pure research finance, has studied and explained the process of valuation as a variable of work skills' interest. When being said "Work skills", it means...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
Expected Utility Theory
Nov 2007
This paper is a modern look at a decision theory and social choice. It emphasizes recent developments that go beyond the classic theory of utility and expected utility. However, a sensible...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Gray Markets, Demand Uncertainty, And Excess Inventory
Mar 2010
The legal diversion of large quantities of goods from authorized distribution channels to unauthorized or "Gray market" channels has important consequences to both firms and consumers through...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Entrepreneurs And Newsvendors: Do Small Businesses Follow The Newsvendor Logic When Making Inventory Decisions?
Aug 2007
This work empirically assesses the degree to which inventory decisions made by entrepreneurs and small businesses are informed by the logic underlying the newsvendor or base stock model and are...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
"Consensus Building And Value Conflicts: Lessons From CALFED"
Mar 2009
Much has been said about the need and benefits of consensus building for resolving disagreements about water and environmental management. Less has been said about how to better convene and...
Provided by National University of Singapore School of Business
-
White Papers
Destruction Of Value: An Analysis Of Manager Selection Decisions By Institutional Plan Sponsors
Sep 2007
Prior research has examined the institutional asset management industry and documented the factors which influence plan sponsors' decisions to place assets with investment products or managers....
Provided by Boston University School of Management
-
White Papers
Leadership Style And Conflict In Decision Making Groups
Sep 2007
This paper reviews the existing research on conflict in decision making groups, and the limited research on the effect of leadership style on such groups. The preferred leader actions are...
Provided by University of Nebraska
-
Webcasts
Healthcare Case Study: The Doctor Will B.R.M.S. You Now (New York Times article)
Aug 2010
Learn how Vanderbilt University uses business rules in complex, critical patient care decisions to deliver increased speed and accuracy and arrive at better outcomes.
Provided by IBM
-
Webcasts
Integrating Risk Management With Business Strategy
Mar 2010
This webcast focuses on integrating risk management framework within the business decision making process. Key business decisions impact both the strategy definition and the execution. Without...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
Webcasts
Driving Decisions With Predictive Analytics: The Top Business Applications
Sep 2009
The value proposition is straight-forward and proven: Predictive analytics produces business insight that delivers. The customer predictions generated by predictive analytics deliver more relevant...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
Webcasts
Innovating In Times Of Trouble And Plenty
May 2009
This Webcast will cover the top ten list of how the global economy shapes business decisions. In the boardroom, we grew up in a predictive strategy mode. We're now in an emerging strategy mode....
Provided by SAS Institute
-
Webcasts
Managing Volatility - Practical Tools For Planning And Managing In Today's Uncertain World
Feb 2009
This webcast discusses some of the practical tools and techniques that can help provide insight for effective decision-making. This session is designed for business and finance executives who are...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
Webcasts
Alternative Approaches For Forecasting New, Low Volume, Or Highly Seasonal Items
Mar 2009
Product portfolios will always evolve to meet the demands of customers, but in difficult economic times the decision to add or eliminate products has even more risk. This webcast describes...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
Webcasts
Putting Predictive Analytics To Work
Apr 2009
Seeking out increasingly small margins has brought analytics into vogue. Organizations realize that they can gain analytic insights about customers, products, channels, partners and much more. But...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
White Papers
Loyalty Vs. Ethics: From The White House To The Workplace
Jul 2008
What happens to an organization's credibility when its leadership is accused of wrongdoing? How should managers and employees handle conflicts between loyalty to the organization and its leaders...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Everything You Need To Know About Running A Project Meeting
Jul 2009
It's a fact of business life: every project requires periodic meetings where the stakeholders get together to discuss the project's goals, assigned tasks, and progress. It's up to the project...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Overcoming Consensus Paralysis
Jul 2010
One of the simplest things is also the one that derails many IT transformation efforts: the ability to make decisions. Whether it's because people are afraid of hurting feelings or that they just...
Provided by CastlePointe
-
White Papers
Encouraging Initiative
Jun 2010
Encouraging employee initiative makes sense. By allowing employees a more active role in problem solving, managers increase staff feelings of satisfaction with their jobs while freeing themselves...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Peter Drucker's Story Of Two Vice Presidents (Why What Everybody Knows Is Frequently Wrong)
Nov 2007
In modern times, the impact of mass agreement about an issue has been addressed and confirmed in psychological research. In one experiment, subjects were asked to rate the attractiveness of...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Deal Or No Deal: Making The Right Decision
Aug 2007
Every day we are confronted with decisions that affect our lives in varying degrees. When a crisis occurs or tough choices need to be made, the ability to make accurate judgments is essential. At...
Provided by American Management Association
-
White Papers
Decision-Making: The Lifeblood Of Business
Apr 2010
All business owners and leaders know that decision-making is what makes and breaks a business. One is often faced with what not-to-do, and that kind of effort takes up more brain power than...
Provided by American Express
-
Downloads
BRMS Demo: Author and deploy rules using WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System
Aug 2010
Learn how the WebSphere ILOG JRules Business Rules Management System (JRules BRMS) can automate decision making for data validation, eligibility and pricing in a real-world scenario. This demo...
Provided by IBM
-
Downloads
BRMS Video: BRMS 101: Introduction to Business Rules Management
Aug 2010
"Has your organization run into difficulties adapting to evolving business conditions? Is there interest in being able to increase the efficiency of your operational processes? Are your business...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Break The Golden Rule
Aug 2009
It's not hard for most of the people to recall a time when one lets people down by inaccurately anticipating their preferences or expectations. Whether it's the wrong birthday gift for a spouse or...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Momentum Bias: Transcend The Trend
Jul 2009
Humans have an almost innate tendency to identify recent trends and subconsciously project them into the future. Whether playing sports, investing in the markets, or picking someone up at a bar,...
Provided by American Express
-
White Papers
Embracing Your Inner Customer
Jun 2009
It never seems to fail. We all know companies who provide bad service or make decisions that will undoubtedly upset and anger customers - and we always wonder why. Yet, at the same time, many of...
Provided by American Express
-
Case Studies
IT service management in an uncertain economy: Financial Services podcast
Aug 2010
This 9 minute podcast provides an overview of the results from a global survey recently conducted by IBM to identify the impact of economic uncertainty on the financial services industry. The...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Are You A Small Business Owner That Wants To Make The Right Decisions About Your Company ?
Mar 2010
You are probably already aware of resources like magazines and websites, but these forums don't always offer the right type of advice for your real-life issues. It is difficult to be at the head...
Provided by SooperArticles
-
White Papers
Journal of Management Excellence - Creating Options
Jan 2010
In a down economy, organizations often busy themselves doing the same day-to-day activities just trying to survive. "Cut costs and sell more" is the main directive, and, chances are, competitors...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Reporting 2.0: The Next Evolutionary Step In Business Reporting
Jan 2010
Reporting is the primary tool used by over 80% of information consumers to support decision making. The reason for the ubiquitous adoption of Reporting is its ability to provide a real-time and...
Provided by Synaptris
-
White Papers
Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
Aug 2010
People have probably all learned a lesson the hard way a time or two. Many good leaders learn how to do it the right way by either observing others' mistakes or making their own. If people adapt,...
Provided by Reynolds Consulting
-
Podcasts
Power And The Illusion Of Control
Jan 2010
Niro Sivanathan's latest research investigates why power creates the illusion of control over uncontrollable situations, perhaps leading to some of the risky decisions that contributed to the...
Provided by London Business School
-
Webcasts
Olympian And alumnus Jim Scherr Visits Kellogg
Oct 2007
Take accountability and make decisions, Jim Scherr told students during his visit. "Decisions will make themselves unless you make them when they hit your desk."
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
Podcasts
Bankers Fail To Grasp Complexities Of Globalization
Dec 2008
Business leaders can no longer pretend to be working in a fragmented world, the president of Inter-American Development Bank tells Thunderbird graduates Dec. 12. "Every decision you make as a...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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Podcasts
Chicago Booth Podcast: Faculty Panel On Ethics And Wall Street
Jan 2010
Booth faculty members Steve N. Kaplan, Tobias Moskowitz and Luigi Zingales spoke at a Myron Scholes Global Market Forum event sponsored by the Initiative on Global Markets. They offered advice to...
Provided by University of Chicago (Booth)
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White Papers
Political Risk Aversion
Sep 2009
This paper studies the effect of individual uncertainty on collective decision-making to implement innovation. The author shows how individual uncertainty creates a bias for the status quo even...
Provided by International Monetary Fund
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Webcasts
Executive MBA: Values And Integrity
Jan 2010
Barry Van Dyck, Director of Recruiting and Admissions, leads a student panel as they discuss the intersection of personal values and everyday business decisions.
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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Webcasts
Become The Decision Maker
Jan 2010
The case method at HBS Executive Education.
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
Impacts Of Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation On Decision Making Processes
Jan 2009
This paper reports on findings from the first phase of research investigating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and its impact on decision making process in Australian organisations. The focus of...
Provided by Association for Information Systems
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White Papers
Don't Stand By Me
Sep 2009
When business leaders leave organizations following poor decisions, constituents often find comfort in replacing them with insiders - others familiar with the problem and original choices. But new...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Whitepapers
IBM Smart Products Virtual Briefing Center
Oct 2010
The Smart Products Virtual Briefing Center provides an access point to industry-specific solutions. You will be able to attend webcasts in the auditorium, visit the industry-specific knowledge...
Provided by IBM
