Sloan School of Management: Recent submissions

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    • Multiple Team Membership: A Theoretical Model of its Effects on Productivity and Learning for Individuals, Teams, and Organizations 

      O'Leary, Michael Boyer; Mortensen, Mark; Woolley, Anita (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-09)
      While organizations strive to manage the time and attention of workers effectively, the practice of asking workers to contribute to multiple teams simultaneously can result in the opposite. We present a model of the effects ...

    • Reconciling Equational Heterogeneity within a Data Federation 

      Firat, Aykut; Madnick, Stuart; Siegel, Michael; Grosof, Benjamin; Manola, Frank (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-04-01)
      Mappings in most federated databases are conceptualized and implemented as black-box transformations between source schemas and a federated schema. This approach does not allow specific mappings to be declared once and ...

    • The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes 

      Pindyck, Robert S.; Wang, Neng (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-09)
      What is the likelihood that the U.S. will experience a devastating catastrophic event over the next few decades – something that would substantially reduce the capital stock, GDP and wealth? What does the possibility of ...