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    • Decomposing the Congestion Effect and the Inference Effect of Competition: A Field Experiment 

      Tucker, Catherine; Zhang, Juanjuan (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007-11-18)
      Are firms more or less likely to enter a market if they observe that competitors have entered? This most basic question has received contradictory empirical answers. The normative recommendation to firms that make entry ...
    • The MIT Collaboratorium: Enabling Effective Large-Scale Deliberation for Complex Problems 

      Klein, Mark (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007-12-31)
      While current online discussion tools such as email, chat, wikis, and web forums have been enormously successful at enabling unprecedented global knowledge sharing, they face significant limitations from the perspective ...
    • Tautologies, models and theories--can we find "laws" of manufacturing? 

      Little, John D. C. (Cambridge, Mass : Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
      Are there "laws" of manufacturing? If so, what do they look like? If not, what other forms of knowledge might comprise intellectual foundations for a discipline of manufacturing? We differentiate among mathematical ...