Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Bringing Entrepreneurial Ideas to Life 

      Eesley, Charles E.; Hsu, David H.; Roberts, Edward B. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-10)
      Organizational design in the context of new venture development is particularly challenging due to initially severe resource constraints. Deepening our understanding of differential productivity in the startup resource ...

    • Dueling Stakeholders and Dual-Hatted Systems Engineers: Engineering Challenges, Capabilities and Skills in Government Infrastructure Technology Projects 

      Brooks, JoAnn M.; Carroll, John S.; Beard, Jon W. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-10-02)
      Engineering projects that support government enterprises face substantial challenges due to demands from diverse stakeholders and rapidly-changing technologies. In this paper, we present findings from analysis of five case ...

    • Linking Network Structure and Diffusion Through Stochastic Dominance 

      Lamberson, P.J. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Instittute of Technology, 2009-09-28)
      Recent research identifies stochastic dominance as critical for understanding the relationship between network structure and diffusion. This paper introduces the concept of stochastic dominance, explains the theory linking ...