Sloan School of Management: Recent submissions

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    • How to Catch a Tiger: Understanding Putting Performance on the PGA Tour 

      Fearing, Douglas; Acimovic, Jason; Graves, Stephen C. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-01)
      Existing performance metrics utilized by the PGA TOUR have biases towards specific styles of play, which make relative player comparisons challenging. Our goal is to evaluate golfers in a way that eliminates these biases ...

    • 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 ...