A principal often needs to match agents to perform coordinated tasks, but agents can quit or slack off if they dislike their match. We study two prevalent approaches for matching within organizations: Centralized assignment by firm leaders and self-organization through market-like mechanisms. We...

In this paper, we propose a team rating system that accounts for differences in strength of schedule by computing an additive correction factor which adjusts team winning percentage. This approach permits teams to be ranked appropriately despite disparate schedules. Our method is easy to compute...

Let (X1,X2,X3) be a 3-variate normal vector with zero means and a non-singular co-variance matrix [Sigma], where for i[not equal to]j, [Sigma]ij=0. It is shown here that it is then possible to determine the three variances and the three correlations based only on the knowledge of the density of...

More companies probably undertake some form of forward estimation of their markets and their sales than of any other aspect of their activities. The estimates produced may then be used in a variety of ways, such as in production planning, planning the sales force, setting advertising...