Search Results - "GRAVES, SAMUEL B."

THE CORPORATE SOCIAL PERFORMANCE-FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE LINK by WADDOCK, SANDRA A., GRAVES, SAMUEL B.

“…Strategic managers are consistently faced with the decision of how to allocate scarce corporate resources in an environment that is placing more and more…”
Get full text

Doing good does not preclude doing well: corporate responsibility and financial performance by Lee, Jegoo, Graves, Samuel B, Waddock, Sandra

“…Purpose This paper aims to propose and test a modified interpretation of long-standing issues on the corporate responsibility (CR)–corporate financial…”
Get full text

Overconfidence and disappointment in venture capital decision making: An empirical examination by Graves, Samuel B., Ringuest, Jeffrey

“…We examine the effects of overconfidence in venture capital investing. Overconfidence in financial decision making is a robust, well-established finding, and…”
Get full text

A multiobjective evolutionary approach for linearly constrained project selection under uncertainty by Medaglia, Andrés L., Graves, Samuel B., Ringuest, Jeffrey L.

“…In the project selection problem a decision maker is required to allocate limited resources among an available set of competing projects. These projects could…”
Get full text

Responsibility: The New Business Imperative by Waddock, Sandra A., Charles Bodwell, Graves, Samuel B.

“…Businesses today are experiencing profound pressures to reform and improve stakeholder-related practices and their impacts on stakeholders and the natural…”
Get full text

Overconfidence and Disappointment in Decision-making under Risk: The Triumph of Hope over Experience by Ringuest, Jeffrey L., Graves, Samuel B.

“…Overconfidence in economic decision-making is a well-established phenomenon; however, assessment of its scale and impact are largely absent from the…”
Get full text

Understanding Shareholder Activism: Which Corporations are Targeted? by Rehbein, Kathleen, Waddock, Sandra, Graves, Samuel B.

“…This study provides preliminary empirical evidence that shareholder activists target companies because of their size as well as specific stakeholder-related…”
Get full text

Probabilistic dominance criteria for comparing uncertain alternatives: A tutorial by Graves, Samuel B., Ringuest, Jeffrey L.

“…This paper is a tutorial which demonstrates the current state-of-the-art methods for incorporating risk into project selection decision making. The projects…”
Get full text

Institutional Owners and Corporate Social Performance by Graves, Samuel B., Waddock, Sandra A.

“…In this study, we hypothesize that institutions invest more heavily in companies with strong corporate social performance. Analysis indicated a significant,…”
Get full text

Patient Decision Making: Exponential versus Hyperbolic Discounting by Graves, Samuel B., Ringuest, Jeffrey L.

“…Evidence strongly indicates that human decision makers discount the future using a hyperbolic function instead of following an exponential, which has been the…”
Get full text

Mean–Gini analysis in R&D portfolio selection by Ringuest, Jeffrey L, Graves, Samuel B, Case, Randy H

“…To date no single model has been published which fully satisfies the needs for a practical R&D project selection technique. Some earlier models cannot handle…”
Get full text

Innovative productivity and returns to scale in the pharmaceutical industry by Graves, Samuel B., Langowitz, Nan S.

“…This study shows that firms in the pharmaceutical industry experience decreasing returns to scale in R&D as the level of R&D expenditures rises. The paper…”
Get full text

Formulating Optimal R&D Portfolios by Ringuest, Jeffrey L., Graves, Samuel B.

“…This considerably simplified method for finding optimal R&D portfolios requires a minimum of information about the individual projects, namely the probability…”
Get full text

The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Corporate Stakeholder Practices by Waddock, Sandra, Graves, Samuel B.

“…One of the intriguing unanswered research questions is ‘what is the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) on corporate responsibility?’ This study examines…”
Get full text

A sampling-based method for generating nondominated solutions in stochastic MOMP problems by Ringuest, Jeffrey L., Graves, Samuel B.

“…This paper presents a method for generating nondominated solutions for stochastic multiobjective mathematical programming problems which is applicable to both…”
Get full text

Conditional stochastic dominance in R&D portfolio selection by Ringuest, J.L., Graves, S.B., Case, R.H.

“…This paper describes a methodology for the selection of research and development (R&D) projects to add to or remove from an existing R&D portfolio. The…”
Get full text

Formulating Optimal R&D Portfolios by Graves, Samuel B., Ringuest, Jeffrey L., Case, Randolph H.

“…R&D managers continue to report their dissatisfaction with currently-available R&D portfolio management models and the need for better and simpler modeling…”
Get full text

R&D productivity: A global multi-industry comparison by Graves, Samuel B., Langowitz, Nan S.

“…This study considers the productivity of R&D expenditures on an international and multi-industry basis. Using 1992 data reported by Business Week on 117…”
Get full text

Formulating R&D Portfolios that Account for Risk by Ringuest, Jeffrey L., Graves, Samuel B., Case, Randolph H.

“…R&D managers express displeasure with the state of the art in portfolio decision models and are often doubtful about their firm's current portfolio of…”
Get full text

Fad and Fashion in Shareholder Activism: The Landscape of Shareholder Resolutions, 1988-1998 by Graves, Samuel B., Waddock, Sandra, Rehbein, Kathleen

“…For some time now, shareholder resolutions have captured the imaginations of activists from outside of corporations who would like to change corporate…”
Get full text