As a consultant within a large, growing, high-profile consulting firm, this challenge is interesting in terms of preventing potential future cyber-attacks. The organization supports a large number of sensitive US Government projects, including hosting or developing portals and applications as part of the work. Protecting this organization’s networks indirectly protects sensitive US Government n...

We study the welfare implications of scalable price targeting, an extreme form of third-degree price discrimination implemented with machine learning for a large, digital firm. Targeted prices are computed by solving the firm’s Bayesian Decision-Theoretic pricing problem based on a database with a high-dimensional vector of customer features that are observed prior to the price quote. To identi...

Abstract The company led by David Mackey and his siblings is a leading developer manufacturer of free space optical communications systems, ground terminals adaptive systems.

Agency Theory as the dominant view of Corporate Governance disregards that the key task of firm governance is to generate, accumulate, transfer, and protect firm specific knowledge. Three different foundations to the theory of the firm which underpin different concepts of corporate governance are discussed: The traditional view of the firm as a nexus of contracts, the view of the firm as a nexu...