Cobra Kai: Franchise Generationality in the Contemporary Reboot

The REBOOT approach to software reuse

ion: Usually an OO component can be characterized by a noun, e.g., calendar, flight manager, fire alarm system. Operations: Components have operations, and these are characterized in the Operations facet. Operates On: This facet describes the objects that the component acts on, e.g., integers, set, list, resource. Dependencies: These are non-functional dependencies and characteristics which lim...

The Case for Franchise Encroachment

As franchisors add same brand outlets to a geographical market, the resulting encroachment from multiple locations creates con ict via revenue cannibalization. We empirically explore the possibility that encroachment could, in fact, have the opposite e ect by increasing revenues as more same brand units are added. In particular, we propose that same brand units create a spillover e ect that can...

The Lifeboat Problem ∗ Kai

We study an all-pay contest with multiple identical prizes ("lifeboat seats"). Prizes are partitioned into subsets of prizes ("lifeboats"). Players play a twostage game. First, each player chooses an element of the partition ("a lifeboat"). Then each player competes for a prize in the subset chosen ("a seat"). We characterize and compare the subgame perfect equilibria in which all players emplo...

Cobra-Head Stone in Single-System Ureterocele

The FDA reboot of antibiotic development.

In May 2012, a number of us listened spellbound as Janet Woodcock of the FDA announced at a meeting at the Brookings Institution that the agency would “reboot” their entire approach to antibiotic development (J. Woodcock, presented at an Expert Workshop on Facilitating Antibacterial Drug Development, 9 May 2012). She recognized that there is a public health crisis of antibiotic resistance that ...