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Opportunity 1: Understanding the Psychology of a Consumer
The Vohs lab in the Marketing Department is looking for a research assistant to aid in consumer psychology research on the self.
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Opportunity 2: Why here? An economic history of corporate headquarters in the Twin Cities
All over, individuals are curious why so many excellent companies are headquartered in the Twin Cities. This research looks to find an answer to that curiosity.
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Opportunity 3: Convergence and entrepreneurship in the video-game industry
A new buzzword - interactive entertainment has emerged in the past few years and is set to revolutionize both the internet as well as the computer technology.
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Opportunity 4: Drug-device-biologics convergence and policy and new venture creation
The traditional pharmaceuticals industry is faced with the prospect of convergence from medical devices and a new breed of biotechnology product--biologics. Combination products or products that combine technologies from drugs, devices or biologics are the next new innovations in the industry.
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Opportunity 5: Social Responsibility and Entrepreneurship
Individuals and groups are acting together in order to change society through collective action constitute social movements...we seek to understand how social movements create opportunities for entrepreneurs, new markets, and new industries.
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Opportunity 6: Network Outcomes Following Alliance Termination
Based on past research, we know that alliances and networks yield strategic advantages to firms...this represents an exciting research opportunity because it can help managers better understand the network effects of alliance termination.
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Opportunity 7: Evolution of the Green Economy
The realization of a global transition to a green economy will necessarily require unique sets of coalitions among and between technological domains and different regional players, all of which will have distinct advantages and disadvantages.
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Opportunity 8: When to Form and When to Avoid Strategic Alliances in the Face of Uncertainty?
Companies are establishing strategic alliances-technology sharing agreements, joint R&D projects, exclusive marketing arrangements, etc.-with each other at an ever-increasing rate.
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Opportunity 9: To Collect, Code, and Organize Secondary Data on Mergers and Acquisitions in the Fuel Cell Industry
The project entails the collection, coding and organization of secondary data on mergers and acquisitions in the fuel cell industry world-wide. It will be used for an on-going study of how inter-organizational relationships and mergers and acquisitions influence innovation outcomes in the fuel cell industry.
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Opportunity 10: Personal Operations Management
This research project is designed to identify operations management principles (particularly "lean thinking" principles) that can be applied to help individual knowledge workers improve their productivity.
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Opportunity 11: Evolution of the Personal Navigation Device Industry
The last ten years have seen the rapid spread of GPS devices. Our project seeks to examine the emergence growth of this industry.
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Opportunity 12: Effects of Imperfect Information on the Formation of Trust
Based on past research, we know that decision to create new inter-organizational relationships are fraught with high levels of risk and therefore require correspondingly high degrees of trust since no contract can fully specify all the contingencies that may arise.
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Opportunity 13: Promoting Worker Well-being Through the use of Intervention Techniques such as Respite Activities and Mindfulness Training
This study examines the growing public health concern of workers stress and well-being, and strategies for reducing the extent to which work stressors negatively affect employee physical (e.g., elevated heart rate, headaches) and psychological (e.g., depression, anxiety) health.
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Opportunity 14: An Empirical Study of Portfolio Managers' Consistency and Momentum
Adherents to the Efficient Market Hypothesis conclude that the aggregate impact of investors upon securities prices leaves securities very efficiently priced at any point in time, making it nearly impossible for portfolio managers to consistently "beat the market" and thereby outperform their competitors.
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Opportunity 15: Brand Management Strategies
This project focuses on the understanding how brands can leverage their equity to stretch beyond the core areas associated with their image/representation, and when it might be meaningful to do so.
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Opportunity 16: The Effects of Work Events on Employee Mood
This project is a review of the literature to determine the extent to which various types of work events (e.g., positive feedback, criticism, social interactions, etc.) influence employee mood.
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Opportunity 17: Cultural Symbolism of Brands and Self-Brand Relationships
Imbuing brands with unique meanings that resonate among consumers is the cornerstone of the brand building process (Keller 1993). Not surprisingly, marketing researchers have devoted special attention to measuring the multiple meanings symbolized by brands and to studying preferences for brands imbued with those symbolic meanings that match consumers' personal identities.
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Opportunity 18: The Economics of CEO-Firm Matching: Evidence from CEO Turnovers
Hiring a chief executive is one of the most important decisions for a company. This project examines how the board chooses a new CEO based on information it has learned from past CEOs, the firm's past and current performances, and the CEO labor market conditions.
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Opportunity 19: Gender Differences in Collective Bargaining Outcomes
This is a database, built over twenty plus years, on the outcomes of collective bargaining negotiations by teams of CSOM students in MAHRIR, MBA and undergraduate courses.
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Opportunity 20: Identifying the determinants of Adoption and Use of Digital Goods in Social Networks
This project is sponsored by a small Twin-Cities based technology startup - Yugma. We want to do research and help Yugma understand users and provide recommendations for product positioning and enhance the transition from the Free to Premium product.
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Opportunity 21: Assisting in the Performance Evaluation and Oversight of Minnesota Public Pension Funds
Long-lasting evidence shows that most pension funds fail to capture the investment returns made available by their own investment policies. A top-down approach will be taken to delineate the primary groups of active decision-makers and determine how much value has been added or lost by each of them, from policy makers to portfolio managers.
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Opportunity 22: Temporary Price Trends in the Securities Markets: Examining Short-term Direction Indicators in Security Prices
Adherents to the Efficient Market Hypothesis conclude that the aggregate impact of investors upon securities prices leaves securities very efficiently priced at any point in time, making it nearly impossible for portfolio managers to consistently "beat the market" and thereby outperform their competitors.
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Opportunity 23: Temporal Constraints on Decision Making: A Natural Field Experiment of Career Selection Decisions
Managers often make high stakes decisions under duress of deadlines and time pressure, with limited control over the timing and duration of access to relevant information. These are "temporal constraints on decision making". We will examine the career selection decisions of residents who have input into their schedules to determine the role individual discretion plays into temporal factos that influence decision making.
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