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The Stuart School of Business Working Papers Series presents research by Stuart School of Business faculty and graduate students.  It is designed to describe both work in progress and completed research. Comments on the papers are encouraged and should be sent directly to the author(s).

The content of the Working Paper Series reflects the research and opinions of the authors, and does not represent the opinion of Stuart School of Business or Illinois Institute of Technology.

• ANMI-Market Volatility
• ICESI

• Ethical Dilemma of Science and Technology
• Organizing for E-Business
• Recent Publications and Working Papers
• The Metrics of Technology Evaluation: Where We Stand and Where We Should Go From Here
• Organizational Change Phenomena, Managerial Cognition, and Archival Measures: Reconceptualization and New Empirical Evidence

Prof. Michael Gorham

• The Exchange-Traded Derivatives Market: A Light in the Current Financial Darkness

Prof. Michael Kelly

• Computational Solution of the American Put using the Moving Free Boundary Method
• Solving the American Put Financial Derivative using Differential Equations and Integration in Mathematica

• Adjusting An Existing Forecasting Model When Some Future Demands Are Known In Advance; A Bayesian Technique, with Raida Abuizam
• Characteristics & Tables of the Doubly-Truncated Normal Distribution, with Arvid C. Johnson
• Characteristics & Tables of the Left-Truncated Normal Distribution, with Arvid C. Johnson
• Min and Max Exponential Extreme Interval Values and Statistics with Marsha Jance
• Min and Max Normal Extreme Interval Values and Statistics with Marsha Jance
• Min and Max Uniform Extreme Interval Values and Statistics with Marsha Jance
• The Initial Buy Quantity
• Use of the Left-Truncated Normal Distribution for Improving Achieved Service Levels, with Arvid C. Johnson
• Values for the Cumulative Distribution Function of the Standard Multivariate Normal Distribution, with Carol Lindee
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• Statistical Measures on the National, distribution center and dealer demands along the supply chain, with Wayne Bancroft, Nick Malham
• Optimal Order Quantity Assuming the Component Part Quantity Is A Random Variable, with Robert B. Allen
• Supplier Lateness, Service Level and Safety Time
• Tables for the Standard Bivariate Normal Distribution., with Montira Jantaravareerat
• Tables and Characteristics of the Standardized Lognormal Distribution, with Arvid C. Johnson
• Demands, Backorders, Service Level, Lost Sales and Effective Service Level
• Characteristics and Tables of the Partial expectations of the left-truncated normal distribution
• Some Measures on the Standard Bivariate Lognormal Distribution
• Safety Stock and Forecast Error
• Safety Stock comparison with Availability and Service level
• Multi-Item Ordering Decision with Target Discount Contract, with Ornlatcha Sivarak
• LostSales
• The Queueing Theory of the Erlang Distribution Interarrival and Service Times, with Noln Plunchitchom
• Forecasting with Irregular Demand History, with Athapol Ruangkanjanases
• 2-Level-Service

• On The Quantification Of Financial Markets - Rocket Science: Boom or Bust? , with Michael K. Ong

• Nonlinearity and the Forward Premium Anomaly
• Components of Economic Growth in Japan and the United States
• Mortgage Prepayments as Precursor to the Financial Crisis