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• Endogenous Favoritism In Organizations

  BNET - 2005-11-01

  This paper addresses the issues of authority and communication in the management of innovation within an organization. In particular, the paper shows that when the principal can fund only one of two competing research or investment ideas, it can be optimal for the principal to listen to only one of...

  Tags: University Of Michigan, Principal, Real Estate, Leadership, Sales Force Management, Investment, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Sales, Finance

• Outsourcing and Offshoring Under the GATS

  BNET - 2005-06-01

  Globalization and the growth of outsourcing and off shoring are challenging international trade regulations. This paper asserts that current GATS framework suffers from several weaknesses including an inadequate classification method, difficulties in determining rules of origin and an opening for protectionist approaches through an inconclusive interpretation to footnote 9 to...

  Tags: University Of Michigan, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Globalization, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Strategy, Management

• A Trade Theorist's Take On Skilled-Labor Outsourcing

  BNET - 2004-09-13

  What is a trade theorist to make of the outsourcing of skilled labor services by a presumably skill-abundant country like the United States? Outsourcing makes perfect sense in any economic model when it takes advantage of international wage differentials. Within the context of the Heckscher-Ohlin HO model, however, as the...

  Tags: University Of Michigan, Theorist, Salary, Outsourcing, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources

• An Optimal Marketing And Engineering Design Model For Product Development Using Analytical Target Cascading

  BNET - 2004-09-06

  Marketing and engineering design decisions are typically treated as separate tasks both in the academic literature and in industrial practice, and their interdisciplinary interactions are not well-defined. In this paper, Analytical Target Cascading ATC, a hierarchical optimization methodology, is used to frame a formal optimization model that links marketing and...

  Tags: University Of Michigan, Target, Marketing Research, Product Development, Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations

• Employment and Health Insurance: Views From Five Surveys

  BNET - 2004-09-01

  Five national surveys offer similar accounts of employment-based health insurance and the subset of the uninsured who have declined employment-based health insurance. While offering similar stories, the surveys are far from identical in the number of people they place at each turn in the story, with the relative size of...

  Tags: Health Insurance, University Of Michigan, Employment, Health Care, Survey, Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Payroll Solutions, Vertical Industries, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

• Using Expectations to Test Asset Pricing Models

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  This paper employs analysts' expected rates of return and provides evidence on the relation between these expectations and firm attributes. The assumption that these expectations are unbiased estimates of market-wide expected rates of return allows circumventing the use of realized rates of return and providing evidence on the predictions emanating...

  Tags: Asset, Asset Pricing, University Of Michigan, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Six Sigma and HPT: Mutual Benefits

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  Many Six Sigma groups looking for ways to extend their practices have concluded that Human Performance Technology HPT offers a way to improve results. Similarly, HPT practitioners are incorporating more Six Sigma practices in their work. This paper describes how the two approaches can be used, effectively, together. It highlights...

  Tags: University Of Michigan, Benefit, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations

• Price Prediction Strategies For Market-Based Scheduling

  BNET - 2004-01-28

  In a market-based scheduling mechanism, the allocation of time-specific resources to tasks is governed by a competitive bidding process. Agents bidding for multiple, separately allocated time slots face the risk that they will succeed in obtaining only part of their requirement, incurring expenses for potentially worthless slots. We investigate the...

  Tags: Agent, University Of Michigan, Strategy, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations

• A Hybrid Model of Decision-Making in Closed Political Regimes

  BNET - 2004-01-18

  In this paper, the first cut information about an exploratory agent-based modeling project is presented where the aim is to develop a tool for intelligence analysts to employ in studying decision-making processes in closed political regimes such as Iraq, North Korea and Syria. The hybrid of the landscape metaphor (Kollman,...

  Tags: Regime, University Of Michigan, Decision-making, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Research & Development, Management, Business Operations

• Information Technology and the Transformation of Scientific and Engineering Research

  BNET - 2003-03-13

  This paper describes the information technology IT impact on transforming various economic and social dimensions of the world, and in particular focuses on the impact of IT on transforming scientific and engineering research and allied education. In February 2003 the National Science Foundation sponsored an invitational workshop on the topic...

  Tags: University Of Michigan, Information Technology, Homeland Security, Strategy, Research & Development, Government, Management, Business Operations