ATG Interviews Jay Jordan, CEO, OCLC

Jay Johnson

It is seldom possible to plausibly define and observe a pool of potential entrants to a market. This study overcomes that limitation by taking advantage of an opportunity to reasonably define the potential entrants into MTBE production, a rapidly growing environmental product from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s. Potential entrants are identified as those firms having access to specific assets tha...

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc

This meeting of the Board of Trustees of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., pursuant to the notice of the Secretary dated May 29, 2007, and in accordance with Article VII, Section I, of the Code of Regulations of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., convened at 8:30 a.m. local time on June 11, 2007, in the Saxenburgaal Room of the Pulitzer Hotel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Ms. Wi...

CEO Education, CEO Turnover, and Firm Performance

We analyze the effects of CEO education on CEO turnover (firing and replacement) and firm performance. Our primary interest is on the role that CEO education plays in a firm’s decision to replace its current CEO, the role that it plays in selecting a new CEO, and on whether CEO education significantly affects performance. We use six main measures of CEO education: whether or not the CEO attende...

Jay Cummings: Research Statement

My research has touched many areas of combinatorics, including enumerative, algebraic, spectral, extremal and probabilistic. The projects below include finding the stationary distribution of a random coloring procedure, pursuing new directions in the math of juggling, working with undergraduates on Ramsey theory, and studying a pair of topics from spectral graph theory. I have mentored undergra...

Laugh Track Jay