Publications

March 1985 (Revised November 1985)
Case

Wilmington Tap and Die

By: Robert S. Kaplan

The general manager of a division manufacturing taps and dies must decide whether to continue a major capital investment program. The program was designed to replace aging mechanical machines with modern, electronically controlled equipment. A post-audit, after an... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Investment; Accounting Audits; Cost Management; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Production; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Manufacturing Industry

February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
Case

Komatsu Ltd.

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Reviews and updates the structure and characteristics of the earth-moving equipment industry presented in the companion case, Caterpillar Tractor Co. After revealing that CAT has suffered major financial losses during the period from 1981 through 1984, the case... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Machinery and Machining; Price; Growth and Development; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Industrial Products Industry

Educators

December 1984
Case

Expense Tracking System at Tiger Creek

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Mill manager Carl Adelman learns that a group of senior managers is soon to visit the Tiger Creek mill to learn more about the success of the newly implemented Expense Tracking System. The System had been installed on two paper machines to give workers real time cost... View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Success; Cost Management; Technology; Pulp and Paper Industry

Educators

December 1984
Article

The Evolution of the Labor Market for Medical Interns and Residents: A Case Study in Game Theory

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Labor; Markets; Theory; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

October 1984 (Revised February 2007)
Background Note

Introduction to Portfolio Theory

By: Andre F. Perold

Introductory note describing the basic building blocks of Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio theory. View Details

Keywords: Theory; Investment Portfolio

Educators

1 Sep 1984
Conference Presentation

Ensuring Minority Achievement in Corporations: The Importance of Structural Theory and Structural Change

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Diversity; Success; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation

1984
Chapter

Stable Coalition Formation: Aspects of a Dynamic Theory

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Alliances; Balance and Stability; Theory

November 1983
Article

Subjective Probability and the Theory of Games: Some Further Comment

By: A. E. Roth and F. Schoumaker

Keywords: Theory; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

June 1983 (Revised April 1991)
Case

Dominion Engineering Works

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Dominion Engineering Works faces important strategic decisions about whether to continue its focused strategy of selling newsprint machines to the Canadian paper industry or whether recent changes in industry conditions and the emergence of three global competitors... View Details

Keywords: Machinery and Machining; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Diversification

Article

Towards a Theory of Bargaining: An Experimental Study in Economics

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Negotiation; Information; Economics

April 1983
Article

Productivity and Labor Unions: An Application of the Theory of Self-Enforcing Contracts

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Labor Unions; Contracts; Theory

1983
Working Paper

A Theory of Bargaining with Monetary Transfers

By: Jerry R. Green

August 1983
Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Componential Conceptualization

By: T. M. Amabile

Considers the definition and assessment of creativity and presents a componential framework for conceptualizing this faculty. Including domain-relevant skills, creativity-relevant skills, and task motivation as a set of necessary and sufficient components of... View Details

Keywords: Theory; Social Psychology; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Characteristics

1982
Chapter

On the Microeconomic Theory of Investment under Uncertainty

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Microeconomics; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management

January 1982
Article

Empirical Analysis of the Commercial Loan Classification Decision

By: Robert S. Kaplan and J. Richard Dietrich

Keywords: Theory; Financing and Loans; Decision Making

November 1982
Article

The Social Psychology of Creativity: A Consensual Assessment Technique

By: T. M. Amabile

States that both the popular creativity tests, such as the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, and the subjective assessment techniques used in some previous creativity studies are ill-suited to social psychological studies of creativity. A consensual definition of... View Details

Keywords: Social Psychology; Creativity; Measurement and Metrics; Research; Perception; Theory

July 1981
Article

On Market Timing and Investment Performance Part I: An Equilibrium Theory of Value for Market Forecasts

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Investment; Performance; Theory; Value; Forecasting and Prediction; Markets

1980
Working Paper

Components of Manufacturing Inventories: A Structural Model of the Production Process

By: Alan J. Auerbach and Jerry R. Green

This paper presents a structural model of production and inventory accumulation based on the hypothesis of cost minimization. It differs from previous attempts in several respects. First, it integrates the analysis of input inventories with output inventories, treating... View Details

Article

On the Theory of Effective Demand

By: Jerry R. Green