Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • The Power of Alumni Networks - Success of Startup Companies Correlates With Online Social Network Structure of Its Founders 

      Nann, Stefan; Krauss, Jonas; Schober, Michael; Gloor, Peter A.; Fischbach, Kai; e.a. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-02)
      In this paper we analyze the success of startups in Germany by looking at the social network structure of their founders on the German-language business-networking site XING. We address two related research questions. ...

    • Class Pricing 

      Wernerfelt, Birger (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-01-15)
      A contract with K-class pricing divides a large set of goods or services into K classes and assigns a single price to any element of a class. Class pricing can be efficient when several different versions may be traded and ...

    • Social Learning in Social Networks 

      Lamberson, PJ (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-10)
      This paper analyzes a model of social learning in a social network. Agents decide whether or not to adopt a new technology with unknown payoffs based on their prior beliefs and the experiences of their neighbors in the ...