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作者：Hosanagar, Kartik; Chuang, John; Krishnan, Ramayya; Smith, Michael D.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Content delivery networks (CDNs) are a vital component of the Internet's content delivery value chain, servicing nearly a third of the Internet's most popular content sites. However, in spite of their strategic importance, little is known about the optimal pricing policies or adoption drivers of CDNs. We address these questions using analytic models of CDN pricing and adoption under Markovian traffic and extend the results to bursty traffic using numerical simulations. When traffic is Markovia...
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作者：Ferran, Carlos; Watts, Stephanie
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Boston University
摘要：This research uses dual-process cognitive theory to describe how people process information differently when it is delivered via videoconference rather than when it is delivered face-to-face. According to this theory, relative to face-to-face communication, people in videoconferences tend to be more influenced by heuristic cues-such as how likeable they perceive the speaker to be-than by the quality of the arguments presented by the speaker. This is due to the higher cognitive demands that vid...
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作者：Belloni, Alexandre; Freund, Robert; Selove, Matthew; Simester, Duncan
作者单位：Duke University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We take advantage of recent advances in optimization methods and computer hardware to identify globally optimal solutions of product line design problems that are too large for complete enumeration. We then use this guarantee of global optimality to benchmark the performance of more practical heuristic methods. We use two sources of data: (1) a conjoint study previously conducted for a real product line design problem, and (2) simulated problems of various sizes. For both data sources, several...
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作者：Gruber, Marc; MacMillan, Ian C.; Thompson, James D.
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Entrepreneurs play a fundamental role in bringing new technologies to market. Because technologies are often configurable to serve a variety of different markets, it is possible for entrepreneurs to identify multiple market opportunities prior to the first market entry of their emerging firms, and if they elect to do so, to therefore have a choice of which market to enter first. The empirical results presented in this paper offer three new insights regarding this important early-stage choice i...
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作者：Terwiesch, Christian; Xu, Yi
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：In an innovation contest, a firm (the seeker) facing an innovation-related problem (e. g., a technical R&D problem) posts this problem to a population of independent agents (the solvers) and then provides an award to the agent that generated the best solution. In this paper, we analyze the interaction between a seeker and a set of solvers. Prior research in economics suggests that having many solvers work on an innovation problem will lead to a lower equilibrium effort for each solver, which i...
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作者：Lan, Yingjie; Gao, Huina; Ball, Michael O.; Karaesmen, Itir
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：In this paper, we consider the classical multifare, single-resource (leg) problem in revenue management for the case where demand information is limited. Our approach employs a competitive analysis, which guarantees a certain performance level under all possible demand scenarios. The only information required about the demand for each fare class is lower and upper bounds. We consider both competitive ratio and absolute regret performance criteria. For both performance criteria, we derive the b...
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作者：Stern, Zvi; Katz-Navon, Tal; Naveh, Eitan
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hadassah University Hospital; Hadassah University Medical Center; Reichman University; Technion Israel Institute of Technology
摘要：Every organization is confronted by employee errors. Situational learning orientation may mitigate an employee's tendency to err. A situational learning orientation refers to the extent to which employees share the perception that there is an emphasis on improvement and on actively searching for additional knowledge and feedback in their department. The present study suggests that situational learning orientation interacts with two other organizational factors-autonomy and voice-as it influenc...
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作者：Naseraldin, Hussein; Herer, Yale T.
作者单位：University of Toronto; Technion Israel Institute of Technology
摘要：We research the management approach that quantitatively combines decisions that affect different planning horizons-namely, the strategic and operational ones-and simultaneously derive the optimal values of these decisions. The system we investigate comprises retail outlets and customers in an in finite-horizon setting. Both retail outlets and customers are located on a finite homogenous line segment. The total demand posed by customers is normally distributed with known mean and variance. To o...
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作者：Ghemawat, Pankaj; Levinthal, Daniel
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Choice settings are strategic to the extent that they entail cross-sectional or intertemporal linkages. These same factors may impose daunting demands on decision makers. We develop a graph-theoretic generalization of the NK model of fitness landscapes to model the way in which policy choices may be more or less strategic. We use this structure to examine, through simulation, how fully articulated a strategy or set of policy choices must be to achieve a high level of performance and how feasib...
