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Proactive and Reactive Product Line Strategies: Asymmetries Between Market Leaders and Followers

Shankar, Venkatesh - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 2, pp. 276-292

To what extent do firms engage in product line actions simultaneously with actions in other marketing variables? What are the determinants of product line actions? To what extent are product line actions proactive? To what degree are they reactive? How can a firm's product line action elasticity...

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Beyond the Endogeneity Bias: The Effect of Unmeasured Brand Characteristics on Household-Level Brand Choice Models

Chintagunta, Pradeep; Dubé, Jean-Pierre; Goh, Khim Yong - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 5, pp. 832-849

We investigate the role of potential weekly brand-specific characteristics that influence consumer choices, but are unobserved or unmeasurable by the researcher. We use an empirical approach, based on the estimation methods used for standard random coefficients logit models, to account for the...

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A Goal Programming/Constrained Regression Review of the Bell System Breakup

Charnes, A.; Cooper, W. W.; Sueyoshi, T. - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 1, pp. 1-26

The recently implemented court decision to break up Bell (=American Telephone & Telegraph Co.) to accord with U.S. anti-trust laws represents a highly significant policy decision which is proving to be influential in other countries as well as the U.S. The telecommunication industry is of such...

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Demand Forecasting Behavior: System Neglect and Change Detection

Kremer, Mirko; Moritz, Brent; Siemsen, Enno - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 10, pp. 1827-1843

that forecasting behavior systematically deviates from normative predictions: Forecasters overreact to forecast errors in …

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A Case-Based Model of Probability and Pricing Judgments: Biases in Buying and Selling Uncertainty

Brenner, Lyle A.; Griffin, Dale W.; Koehler, Derek J. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 1, pp. 159-178

We integrate a case-based model of probability judgment with prospect theory to explore asset pricing under uncertainty. Research within the "heuristics and biases" tradition suggests that probability judgments respond primarily to case-specific evidence and disregard aggregate characteristics...

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A Model for Predicting Frequencies of Random Events

Rosenfield, Donald - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 8, pp. 947-954

This paper presents a new technique for forecasting frequencies of events over time for individuals. The technique …

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Turnpike Horizons for Production Planning

Thompson, Gerald L.; Sethi, Suresh P. - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 3, pp. 229-241

A quadratic model for production-inventory planning was made famous by Holt, Modigliani, Muth, and Simon in 1960 in (Holt, C. C., F. Modigliani, J. F. Muth, H. A. Simon. 1960. Planning Production, Inventories, and Work Force. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.), especially for its...

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A Recursive Kalman Filter Forecasting Approach

Kahl, Douglas R.; Ledolter, Johannes - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 11, pp. 1325-1333

This paper examines the forecasting accuracy and the cost effectiveness of time series models with time …-varying coefficients. A simulation study investigates the potential forecasting benefits of a proposed Kalman filter type adaptive … estimation and forecasting approach. It is found that: (1) When appropriate, the time-varying coefficient approach leads to …

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Partitioning Variance in Regression Analyses for Developing Policy Impact Models: The Case of the Federal Medicaid Program

Chen, Milton M. - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 1, pp. 25-36

This paper extends the usual regression analysis to include the partition of the variance to examine the possible secondary and higher order impact of policy variables in a policy impact model. The federal Medicaid program is analyzed using the methodology to assess the impact of the policy...

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Consensus Forecasts of Corporate Earnings: Analysts' Forecasts and Time Series Methods

Conroy, Robert; Harris, Robert - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 6, pp. 725-738

An alternative to using a single forecasting method is to average the forecasts made by various methods. In this paper … predict corporate earnings per share. We conclude that, on average, the primary forecasting advantages of analysts over time … beginning of the fiscal year. For predictions in the first half of the fiscal year, there is evidence of forecasting benefits …

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