What's in a Name? How Senior Managers use <scp>Name‐Based</scp> Heuristics to Allocate Financial Resources in Multinational Corporations

How Senior Managers Acquire and Use Information in Environmental Scanning

Environmental scanning is the acquisition and use of information about events and trends in an organization’s external environment, the knowledge of which would assist management in planning the organization’s future courses of action. This paper reports a study of how 13 chief executives in the Canadian publishing and telecommunications industries scan their environments and use the informatio...

How to Allocate Resources For Features Acquisition?

We study classification problems where features are corrupted by noise and where the magnitude of the noise in each feature is influenced by the resources allocated to its acquisition. This is the case, for example, when multiple sensors share a common resource (power, bandwidth, attention, etc.). We develop a method for computing the optimal resource allocation for a variety of scenarios and d...

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Multinational Corporations in Transnational Accountability

How to Allocate Resources and Build Optimal Teams

In the five decades of modern project management (the computer age), PM software developers have made constant strides in providing support within their tools for the continuing challenge of assigning resources to projects and tasks. Many of these solutions have failed to garner the support of the tools users. Some products have totally flopped and have quickly been removed from the market. Oth...