In the last few years, there has been a trend to enrich traditional revenue management models built upon the independent demand paradigm by accounting for customer choice behavior. This extension involves both modeling and computational challenges. This paper considers the Choice-based, Deterministic, Linear Programming model CDLP of Gallego et al.,...
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As Internet-based commerce becomes increasingly widespread, large data sets about the demand for and pricing of a wide variety of products become available. These present exciting new opportunities for empirical economic and business research, but also raise new statistical issues and challenges. In this paper, we summarize research that aims...
STAMFORD, Conn. -- Citibank, through its subsidiary The Student Loan Corporation announced today a continuation of its partnership with New York University NYU to offer a comprehensive financing program for students and their families. The NYU and Citibank relationship will continue for another four years and includes private loans for...
This paper consider the problem of a monopolist retailer choosing the optimal assortment and in-ventory levels for a discrete set of products with varying prices and costs in order to maximize expected profit in a single-period setting. Customer preferences are modeled through the definition of consumer types, where a type...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Paul R. Brown, associate dean for executive MBA programs at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, has been named the next dean of Lehigh University's College of Business and Economics.
This paper offers a general equilibrium model to analyze the problem of R&D investment of firms that also face the decision between outsourcing and in-house production in the presence of R&D information leakage. A contractor hired by a firm learns the firm's technology and can diffuse the information to other...
As Internet-based commerce becomes increasingly widespread, large data sets about the demand for and pricing of a wide variety of products become available. These present exciting new opportunities for empirical economic and business research, but also raise new statistical issues and challenges. In this paper, the authors summarize a program...
This paper reviews and extends academic literature that studies the inventory turnover performance of public-listed U.S. retailers using firm-level financial data. Past research has shown that there is a large variation in the inventory turnover performance of retailers across firms as well as over time. A significant fraction of this...
Nonqualified deferred compensation is found in many forms and arrangements, including deferral of existing base pay and bonus payments, supplements to qualified pension and 401k benefits, severance benefits, and various equity-based programs. This article is intended as a brief overview of the new Section 409A provisions, a summary of a...
The performance of a stylized supply chain is studied, where two forms, a retailer and a producer, compete in a Stackelberg game. The retailer purchases a single product from the producer and afterwards sells it in the retail market at a stochastic clearance price. The retailer, however, is budget-constrained and...
This paper analyzes the impact of e-commerce on markets where established firms face competition from Internet-based entrants with focused offerings. In particular, the retail brokerage sector is studied where the growth of online brokerages and the availability of alternate sources of information and research services have challenged the dominance of...
Manufacturers often sell their products both to customers acquired over time and sustained through contractual agreements and to new businesses through electronic markets. These two sales channels contract markets and exchanged based sales and procurement coexist for several capital intensive industries such as the semiconductor and chemical industries (Kleindorfer and...
In order to save Afghanistan's historic literature, New York University has began a program to digitize all books and pamphlets printed in that country from 1871 to 1930 in what is called the Afghanistan Digital Library project, "The New York .. In order to save Afghanistan's...
An important simplifying assumption made when analyzing goods that display positive network e?ects is that potential consumers can form a rational expectation of the equilibrium demand for the good, and that they all form the same expectation, which is then fulfilled based on their consumption choices - sometimes called a...
In this paper we study how the time-series structure of the demand process an effects the value of information sharing in a supply chain. We consider a two-stage supply chain model in which a retailer serves Autoregressive Moving-Average Process ARMA demand, and a manufacturer fills the retailer's orders. We characterize...