DRAFT of August 1991. For the final version see Decision Support Systems‚ December 1992‚ pp 365-386. RECENT APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMIC THEORY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH J. Yannis Bakos University of California‚ Irvine Chris F. Kemerer Massachusetts Institute of Technology August 1991 This is a draft version of the article that appeared in Decision Support Systems‚ December 1992‚ pp 365-386. Helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article were received from C. Beath‚ E
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a) A company is interested in providing a new benefit to its employees to encourage them to utilize public transportation. To study the potential of providing this benefit‚ the company would like to do a survey of the workers at a company to gather information on why do or do not use public transportation for commuting to work. The company is about 25‚000 people in areas where public transportation is available. You also want to find out the reasons why their choice is what it is. In this case
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insignificant above 1:1*106 SPH particles. To provide proper constraint to the body of water‚ Planar walls were defined at five corners of the water block. An initial vertical velocity of 9.14 m/s is applied to the fuselage model to replicate a 4.3 m (14 ft) vertical drop. LS-DYNA contact codes were applied to the numerical model‚ where the contact interaction between the fuselage skin and the water particles was based on the soft contact-penalty algorithm. Numerical model for the vertical impact of
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HBS Case Report: Shenzhen Development Bank Contents Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation of Newbridge’s proposed investment into Shenzhen Development Bank. Methods of analysis include an assessment of the bank’s financial performance‚ examining factors such as its asset quality‚ earning capability and capital adequacy. It also provides an in-depth analysis into the appropriateness of the price Newbridge must pay for the
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LEAD-USER RESEARCH FOR BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATION Lead-user research can help companies uncover both unmet customer needs and the innovative solutions that leading-edge users are developing to meet those needs. Ivy Eisenberg OVERVIEW: The best companies often work closely with their customers to uncover needs and wants that can be translated into new or improved product or service offerings. The lead-user research method goes a step further‚ looking not only to the typical customer‚ but to those
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Assignment Challenges in Managing Innovation across Supply Chains —Evaluation and Implementation Student: Ying Deng Student ID:1205690 Course Number: 07 14511 Teacher: Professor Dr Victoria Hanna Date: 10/01/2013 Acknowledgement This research paper is written for the subject: “Global Marketing” in the University of Birmingham. Firstly‚ we would like to thanks Almighty Lord to give us knowledge and keep us healthy during the whole period of our research work. Secondly
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HBS- Airborne Express Background Information Seattle based Airborne Express was the third largest express mail business in the 1990s. The product of two specialist airfreight carriers‚ Airborne Express began operations in 1968 and targeted businesses requiring regular‚ high-volume shipments of urgent items. Airborne maintained low cost operations by focusing on efficiency. We discuss how the express mail industry evolved throughout the 1990s and what Airborne did to remain competitive. How and
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CASE OVERVIEW Valley Technology Inc. is a part of the computer storage industry that initially offered a tape drive portfolio of products‚ which provides backup and recovery capabilities‚ and it has recently introduced a network attached product which is dedicated to file sharing only. The company encountered dilemmas regarding the most appropriate alternative that would be best to resolve their plan of reducing the company’s overall cost‚ specifically with the tape storage division
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of appreciation between couples can also be a root issue of infidelity and other problems in the marriage. When appreciation is low‚ conflict is high. Notice this in siblings who are most often not appreciative. Allowing Technology to Interfere When couples allow technology to interfere with their
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Challenge of Training Global Workers: Education Recently‚ globalization has become more and more common in everyday business and world politics. Different countries can contact each other easily allowing foreign trade to flourish‚ but‚ with the ease of communication and travel comes some issues that should be accounted for‚ for example‚ before hiring workers from different countries‚ you need to get to know their individual culture‚ which in turn would be beneficial in training them. There are
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