Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • PepsiAmericas: Building an Information Savvy Company 

      Beath, Cynthia M.; Ross, Jeanne W. (Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge, MA, 2010-02)
      In 2009 PepsiAmericas was learning how to leverage an information backbone designed to provide information to the firm’s decision makers at all levels of the organization. The firm had built this information backbone—and ...

    • From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation 

      Baldwin, Carliss; von Hippel, Eric A. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Managment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-08)
      In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single user individuals or firms, and open collaborative innovation. We ...

    • Firms In Markets Under Uncertainty 

      Gibbons, Robert; Holden, Richard T.; Powell, Michael (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-07)
      We analyze a rational-expectations model of price formation in an intermediate-good market under uncertainty. There is a continuum of dyads, each consisting of an upstream party and a downstream party. Both parties can ...