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Maximizing The Spread Of Influence Through A Social Network: Models for the processes by which ideas and influence propagate through a social network have been studied in a number of domains, including the diffusion of medical and technological innovations, the sudden and widespread adoption of various strategies in game-theoretic settings, and the effects of "Word of mouth" in the...; Tags: Cornell University, social networking, network, collaboration, strategy; White papers
Valuing Employees: A Success Strategy for Fast Growth Firms and Fast Paced Individuals: This research considers the effect of pace on employee and firm performance. Population ecology and protection motivation theory suggest that to achieve success in a fast paced environment, companies should create an environment where employees feel they are valued. The theories emphasize that both fast pace and value are needed...; Tags: Performance management, Investment, Cornell University, environment, stock price, motivation, performance, theory, stock, strategy; White papers
Pay for What Performance? Lessons From Firms Using the Role-Based Performance Scale: The goal of this paper is to introduce a new measure of individual performance that views performance measurement in terms of roles that are enacted at work. The paper also demonstrates how this measure can help organizations diagnose the degree to which their current compensation system is paying for the...; Tags: Performance management, Cornell University, performance, compensation; White papers
The Decision To Adopt A Classified Board Of Directors At IPO: This paper examines the factors that explain whether or not managers of IPO (Initial Public Offering) companies elect to adopt a classified board of directors, a governance arrangement that has an anti-takeover effect and is typically considered an indicator of poor corporate governance. Controlling for the endogeneity of venture capital...; Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, Cornell University, IPO, venture capital, board, corporate governance; White papers 2007-05-01
Foreign Capital And Economic Growth: Contrary to the predictions of standard theoretical models, non-industrial countries that have relied more on foreign finance have not grown faster in the long run. By contrast, growth and the extent of foreign financing are positively correlated in industrial countries. We argue that the reason for this difference may lie...; Tags: Financial accounting, Cornell University, financing, financial system, financial, finance; White papers 2007-03-01

The Balanced Scorecard As A Strategy-Evaluation Tool: The Effects Of Responsibility And Causal-Chain Focus: This paper uses an experiment to examine whether involvement in scorecard implementation can mitigate the effects of motivated reasoning when the scorecard is framed as a strategic tool, rather than merely as a balanced set of measures. Psychological research on motivated reasoning suggests that managers will evaluate and interpret data...; Tags: Cornell University, Balanced Scorecard, performance, tool; White papers 2007-01-31
Can't Block, Must Run: Small Firms And Appropriability: This empirical study examines small firms' strategies towards appropriating the returns to their investments in innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative samples of firms. First, few of the smallest firms appear to benefit from patenting. Even within this...; Tags: Cornell University, investment, R&D, strategy, benefit; White papers 2007-01-01
Point-Of-Sale Information Sharing In A Supply Chain Network: To capture the complexity of a supply networks' relationships and interactions, methods such as agent-based simulation can provide a rich representation of complex supply networks systems. This is accomplished by explicitly modeling the individual organizations within the supply network and the ways in which they interact and react to each...; Tags: Real estate, Research & Development, Cornell University, agent, modeling, point-of-sale, supply chain, network; White papers 2006-10-16
Acceptable Intellectual Property: Decisions about intellectual property are about much more than simply finding ways to stimulate and reward innovation; they are also about accountability, control, and governance. In biotechnology, these decisions will not only determine who will own emerging technologies; they will also influence how much they will cost, to whom they...; Tags: Cornell University, intellectual property, biotechnology, accountability; White papers 2006-05-10
Turnover Events, Vicarious Information and the Reduced Likelihood of Outlet-Level Exit Among Small Multi-Unit Organizations: A key question for organizational learning research is to identify opportunities and constraints for firms to gain useful information from the activities and performance of other firms. One argues that market-level turnover events generate and release vicarious information that small multi-unit organizations can use to enhance their own performance. This...; Tags: Performance management, Cornell University, performance; White papers 2005-05-23
Float, Don't Fix, the Interest Rate on Hotel Debt: This study examines the viability of floating-rate debt financing strategies by investigating the time-series relationships between LIBOR, the index typical used in floating-rate debt contracts, and RevPAR, a proxy for hotel revenues. The strong correlations found from this analysis suggest that hotel investors who match interest payments with hotel revenues...; Tags: Financial accounting, Cornell University, financing, interest rate, payment, analysis, financial, strategy; White papers 2005-01-07
Lowest Price Guarantee Reservations: What Hotel Companies Need to Do to Get It Right: While this growth has driven up the profits of internet online travel agencies, hotel operators are experiencing a loss of control over the pricing of rooms and a potential transfer of pricing authority to such third-party companies. The popularity of such services stems from the consumers' desire to obtain the...; Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Cornell University, pricing strategy, agency, Internet; White papers 2005-01-05
Unspanned Stochastic Volatility: Evidence From Hedging Interest Rate Derivatives: Most existing dynamic term structure models assume that interest rate derivatives are redundant securities and can be perfectly hedged using solely bonds. The paper finds that the quadratic term structure models have serious difficulties in hedging caps and cap straddles, even though they capture bond yields well. Furthermore, at-the-money straddle...; Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, Investment, Cornell University, interest rate, bond, volatility, security; White papers 2004-12-17
The Psychology of Revenue Management: Impact of Familiarity, Framing and Fencing Condition on the Perceived Fairness of Rate Fences: Revenue management (RM) has been practiced in the airline, hotel and car rental industries for over 15 years, and has more recently attracted attention in other industries, including broadcasting, golf, health care and restaurants. Perceived fairness is a serious concern for revenue managers who like to use a range of...; Tags: Operational accounting, Cornell University, revenue management, familiarity, fairness, broadcasting, industry, health care; White papers 2004-12-14
Comparing Your Milk Checks: This is the fifth year we have conducted the analyses of producer milk checks. The purpose of this project has been to better help producers understand their own milk checks and how they might compare their checks with other producers. From the year 2000 through 2004, August milk check premiums...; Tags: Cornell University, Y2K; White papers 2004-11-10
Venture Capital and Corporate Governance in the Newly Public Firm: This paper examines the effects of pre-IPO venture capital backing on the corporate governance of the IPO firm. Three sets of tests are conducted which examines effectively how governance and monitoring might differ for venture and non-venture backed firms. It is found that venture-backed IPO firms have lower earnings management,...; Tags: Corporate law, Investment, Financial Planning, Cornell University, pre-IPO, corporate governance, IPO, venture capital, monitoring, shareholder, accounting; White papers 2004-09-25
Business Enterprise Value in Hotels: The Reality Vs. the Shell Game: The motivation for the determination that Business Enterprise Value (BEV) exists comes from the fact that personal property (tangible or intangible) is not subject to property taxes. There is an obvious incentive to determine that large portions of a building's going concern value are BEV in the absence of mitigating...; Tags: Cornell University, absence, motivation, incentive, game; White papers 2004-09-15
Let Me Count the Words: This article examines the use of both qualitative and quantitative data for better understanding of hospitality industry. With the available data gathering and analysis software, hospitality business analysts can make guests' open-ended comments more meaningful to management and provide a richer and deeper understanding of the guests' experience. By "quantifying"...; Tags: Cornell University, analysis; White papers 2004-09-15
Understanding First-Day Returns of Hospitality Initial Public Offerings: This paper helps in understanding the economic rational behind the hospitality industry's Initial Public Offering (IPO) process. The paper makes clear the reasons as to why under-pricing is a necessity evil for managers of private hospitality firms if they choose to go public. It provides an empirical characterization of first-day...; Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, Cornell University, IPO; White papers 2004-09-15
Coyote Loco Hot Sauces: Brand management is an important part of effective marketing. Many tools can be used to create, emphasize, strengthen, and re-create a brand. The purpose of this project was first to research and to analyze Coyote Loco's market and its management's goals and then to use those findings to develop a...; Tags: Branding, Marketing research, Cornell University, brand, brand image, brand management, product development, marketing, tool; White papers 2004-09-15