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An Introduction to Real Options. Incorporating Flexibility to Quantitative Strategic Analysis
Caldart, Adrian; Ricart, Joan EnricTechnical Note DGN-616-EStrategyAt the time of making strategic investments, managers are increasingly dissatisfied with the lack of realism of the existing quantitative methods of capital budget valuation. Standard valuation techniques, based on the calculation of discounted cash flows, have been massively questioned due to their inability to capture management's flexibility to adapt and revise later decisions in response to unexpected market developments. This note addresses ...Starting at €8.20
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New Ways to Answer Old Questions: Conjoint Analysis Takes the Guesswork Out of Pharmaceutical Marketing Decisions
Green, Paul; Joachimsthaler, Erich A.Technical Note MN-284-EMarketingNew developments in marketing research now provide the techniques required to accurately and precisely measure consumer preferences and the trade-offs consumers make between various product attributes, and beyond that to simulate managerially meaningful outcomes such as gains/losses in market share, sales volume, and gross profit. These new developments in marketing research represent a sort of second generation methodologies and refinements of t...Starting at €8.20
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Strategy in Turbulent Environments. Organizations as Nonlinear Feedback Systems
Caldart, Adrian; Ricart, Joan EnricTechnical Note DGN-619-EStrategyEnvironmental turbulence challenges the traditional view of organizational and environmental behavior, based on the assumptions of linear and convergent dynamics. A new paradigm is gradually emerging based on a new view of dynamics, one characterized by nonlinearity and positive feedback loops. This view is implicit in very well known characterizations of dynamics as vicious or virtuous circles, self-fullfilling prophecies and network effects. A ...Starting at €8.20
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Nuevas formas de responder a las viejas preguntas: El análisis conjunto elimina la aleatoriedad de las decisiones de marketing del sector farmacéutico
Green, Paul; Joachimsthaler, Erich A.Technical Note MN-284MarketingCon la evolución de la investigación de marketing se dispone actualmente de técnicas que permiten evaluar con exactitud las preferencias de los consumidores y sus compensaciones entre los distintos atributos de los productos. Dichas técnicas permiten asimismo simular resultados significativos, desde el punto de vista de la gestión, tales como el aumento y disminución de la cuota de mercado, del volumen de ventas y de los beneficios brutos. Esta e...Starting at €8.20