TITLE

Management Insights

PUB. DATE

April 2006

SOURCE

Management Science;Apr2006, Vol. 52 Issue 4, piv

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Abstract

ABSTRACT

A section of abstracts summarizes several articles in the same issue, including "The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery," by Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano, "Does Past Success Lead Analysts to Become Overconfident?" by Gilles Hilary and Lior Menzly, and "A General, Analytic Method for Generating Robust Strategies and Narrative Scenarios," by Robert J. Lempert, David C. Groves, Steven W. Popper, and Steve C. Bankes.

ACCESSION #

25660257

Tags: ABSTRACTS;  INDEPENDENT contractors;  PERFORMANCE standards;  STOCKBROKERS -- Psychology;  ROBUST optimization

 

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