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Showing 1 to 20 of 420 for “"Business Administration, Management, and Operations"”.
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Three Essays on Return Predictability and Decentralized Investment Management
… a focus on return predictability, innovation and market efficiency, and delegated investment management.</p><p>In Chapter 1, "Maximum Return Predictability", I develop two theoretical upper bounds on the R2 of the regression of stock returns on predictive variables. Empirically, I found that …
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Investigation and Identification of Key Characteristics of Successful Camps and Retreat Centers
<p>This thesis was designed to investigate and identify key characteristics of successful camps, outdoor centers, and retreat centers. The study utilized a survey of selected camps and centers within the United States, in the Spring of 1996. The results were analyzed individually and as a whole. …
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Essays on pricing of cardinality bundles
<p>This dissertation studies the pricing of cardinality bundles, where firms set prices that depend only on the size of the purchased bundle, a practice that is increasingly being adopted by industry. The first essay develops a fast combinatorial technique to obtain the optimal prices for …
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Entrepreneurship inside and out: Three essays exploring the interplay between hybrid entrepreneurs and their organizational employee roles
… of a new form of interrole dynamics: employee and entrepreneurial role interactions. Through three essays, I conceptually and empirically explore the effects of engaging in hybrid entrepreneurship on outcomes associated with employee and entrepreneurial roles. In Essay One I present a …
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An Examination Of Ceo Reputation Decline And Repair In Response To Deviant Actions
… in managerial reputation, little research in the management field has attempted to theorize and empirically examine reputation as a dynamic construct. This paper synthesizes prior reputation literature across disciplines to develop a model of reputation change. Using the context of executive …
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Drug Supply Chain Security Act of 2013 and It’s Computer System Implementation
<p>Since 1987, the federal government and state governments, have tried to combat counterfeit drugs from entering the United States and the states' pharmaceutical supply chain. The latest attempt to prevent counterfeit drugs from entering the state drug supply chain was the California E-Pedigree …
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A framework for social media use in project management
… has been rapid adoption of social media (SM) in business functions such as marketing and advertising. This being primarily due to its capability to communicate information. There has been less widespread adoption of SM for other business functions and the potential of SM is not comprehensively …
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Three Essays In Finance
… is composed of two papers on R&D investment, and another paper on the cross section of stock returns.</p> <p>Chapter One investigates the effect of legal shareholder protection on the efficiency of corporate R&D investment. The main finding is that institutional protection of shareholder …
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Misforecasting Positive Affective Responses to Prosocial Behavior
… <p> This difference between forecasted and experienced affect is called affective misforecasting. Across five studies, the present research examines the impact of affective misforecasting on prosocial behavior. More specifically, this research shows that with </p> <p> general everyday …
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KNOCK! KNOCK! IS THE DOCTOR IN? IMPACT OF CONSUMER-FACING HEALTH IT ON HEALTH OUTCOMES
<p>This study draws from Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) to investigate how the Consumer-Facing Health-ITs (CHITs) influence the health outcomes of patients (or consumers) in a primary care setting. This study brings the patient's perceptions to the table and conducts this investigation by …
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WILLINGNESS TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY PERSPECTIVE
… healthcare consumer records electronically and allow information exchange between healthcare consumers and providers. While recent years have seen significant growth in the assimilation of HIT among healthcare providers and consumers, concerns over the privacy of health information persist. …
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