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Implications of two-sided advertising in the automotive industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The extreme competition in the automotive industry results in razor-thin profit margins as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) compete for market share and profits which increase shareholder value. Product differentiation ...
An analysis of nine-ending pricing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Prices ending in 9 are ubiquitous. In this paper I first develop a theoretical model of the effect of such prices on sales and review the empirical literature on the topic. Then I use a data set from an online experiment ...
Growth, litigation and innovation of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Wide-spread usage of peer-to-peer file-sharing began in the late 1990's with Napster-a network that allowed users to share digital music without going through legal channels to purchase the copyrighted material. Since ...
Globalization at NTT DoCoMo : implementing global business management strategies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Global business management has become one of the most important issues facing companies today, and global economic dynamics provide companies with both tremendous opportunities and formidable challenges. Countries are ...
Creating a diverse technical workforce in the Federal Government : the challenges of growing and sustaining technical talent in the new millennium
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The United States is a world leader in the global scientist and engineering enterprise, however with a shortage of US workers prepared to fill scientist and engineering positions in the future, other nations are preparing ...
Microcredit client risk profiling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Analysis of new and renewing microborrower risk behaviors at the Mexican microfinance institution FinComun shows that risk behavior can be predicted. The range of risk behaviors analyzed include: incidence of late payments, ...
Strategic challenges of the Japanese investment banking industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Since the collapse of the bubble economy in 1990, Japanese securities houses have suffered serious damage and have not been able to keep up with the progress of the global investment banking industry. During this period, ...
System dynamics simulation of the telecom industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The primary goal of this research effort was to integrate several pieces of relatively simple dynamics simulations into a full blown system dynamics simulation of the telecom industry. The economic simulation model was ...
Predicting the triple beta-spiral fold from primary sequence data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The Triple β-Spiral is a novel protein structure that plays a role in viral attachment and pathogenesis. At present, there are two Triple β-Spiral structures with solved crystallographic coordinates - one from Adenovirus ...
Organizational changes at a media conglomerate with the adaption to the Internet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Since the Internet began to be a source of information to many people around the world, newspapers and other traditional media have had to adapt their strategies in order to cope with this nascent medium. In fact, and years ...