Do Business Students Make Good Citizens?

Do Business School Professors Make Good Executive Managers?

Executive Overview Despite suggestions that business school professors do not understand what actually accounts for the performance of business organizations, the evidence is anecdotal at best. We review past work, develop expectations, and provide large-scale evidence for examining the validity of such suggestions. We accessed extensive data provided by Dun & Bradstreet and procured detailed i...

It just doesn't make good business sense.

Evolution: Do Bad Husbands Make Good Fathers?

Males sometimes harm their mates as they seek to maximise the number of offspring they sire. But are females really suffering or do the benefits of having sons that inherit their father's manipulative traits make up for the costs? Three recent studies provide the first hard data addressing this issue, but they differ in their conclusions.

Do SAT Solvers Make Good Configurators?

A configuration process is about finding a configuration, a setting, that satisfies the requirements given by the user and constraints imposed by the domain. Feature models are used to record product domains and constraints imposed on individual products. As such constraints are in practice of complex nature, it is desirable to perform the configuration interactively. This article shows how to ...

Dual citizenship rights: do they make more and richer citizens?

In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws on naturalization rates and labor market outcomes in the United States. Based on data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses, I f...