We consider advertising problems under an IT capacity constraint encountered by electronic retailers in a duopolistic setting. While there is a considerable amount of literature on advertising games between firms, introducing an IT capacity constraint fundamentally changes this problem. In the...

Search advertising marketplace is highly competitive in nature. As such, advertisers have to consider their competitors' responses when making advertising decisions, which concern both bid determination in individual keyword auction instances, and budget allocation over time at the aggregate...

As a new software licensing model, software-as-a-service (SaaS) is gaining tremendous popularity across the globe. In this study, we investigate the competition between a new entrant and an incumbent in a SaaS market, and derive the optimal market entry strategy for the new entrant. One...

Monte Carlo production in CMS has received a major boost in performance and scale since the past CHEP06 conference. The production system has been re-engineered in order to incorporate the experience gained in running the previous system and to integrate production with the new CMS event data...

We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...

Rawls (1958) suggested that it is possible to arrive at a fair allocation in a 2-player Nash demand game by granting equal gains to both players. Rawls theorized that players themselves would select this allocation if they bargain from the 'original position'. Harsanyi (1958) suggested the...

Crowdsourcing platforms provide a venue where firms looking for solutions (seekers) and individuals who can provide solutions (solvers) interact with each other. As crowdsourcing contest platforms have grown in popularity with numerous tasks being posted on a daily basis, a concern that has...

Prior work on software release policy implicitly assumes that testing stops at the time of software release. In this research, we propose an alternative release policy for custom-built enterprise-level software projects, which allows testing to continue for an additional period after the...