It is traditional in the theory of the firm to define the production opportunity set available to the firm in terms of its boundary the maximum attainable set of output quantities for various input quantities, given the state of technology and knowledge. This boundary is the production function...

The right to bring an action in court is an important right which many argue should be granted liberally. The United States Supreme Court, for example, has held that under certain situations access to court is a citizen's fundamental right. This paper discusses one facet of access to the courts,...

An Actionable Pathway To Dramatic Increases In Individual And Organizational Performance. Full Day Workshop taught at Olin School, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA Workshop Objectives: To provide you and your organization(s) an unambiguous and actionable access to the causal link...

We develop a framework that is applicable to all freedom of expression disputes. Our framework is based on the meaning of freedom which is based on the meaning of scarcity, and which, in turn, is based on the existence of physical incompatibilities. To maximize freedom, one must differentiate...

The English language version of this paper is available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1585976Spanish Abstract: Este documento es el sexto de seis lecturas previas de nuestro curso "Ser un Líder y el Ejercicio Efectivo del Liderazgo: Un Modelo Ontológico Fenomenológico."Parte del material...

This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in short, a technology for...

In this testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee on February 1, 1989 (when LBOs and other highly leveraged transactions were under fierce attack by politicians and the media), the author identified "LBO associations" such as KKR and Forstmann Little as a valuable innovation in...

This paper examines the role of the corporate objective function in increasing corporate productivity, social welfare, and the accountability of managers and directors. Because it is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension, purposeful behavior requires a "single-valued"...

CEOs and CFOs put themselves in a bind by providing earnings guidance and then making decisions designed to meet Wall Street's expectations for quarterly earnings. When earnings appear to be coming in short of projections, top managers often react by suggesting or demanding that middle and lower...

In this 1990 "Harvard Business Review" classic, the authors begin by correcting a number of widespread misconceptions: Copyright Copyright (c) 2010 Morgan Stanley.