66 Rent Seeking
67 United States versus Microsoft
68 Global Warming
69 Regulatory Reform and Deregulation
70 Assessing Risks
71 Expanding a Highway
72 Building a Bridge
73 Gearing Down for a Recession
74 Drilling for Oil
75 The Perils of International Business
76 Developing an Anticlotting Drug
77 Risking a New York Blackout
78 Risky Decisions
79 The BP Oil Spill Disaster
80 The Demand for Insurance
81 Risk Management at Microsoft
82 The Stock Market and the Economy
83 Evaluating a Seismic Test
84 Predicting Credit Risks
85 Decision Pitfalls
86 The Shuttle Disaster and NASA’s
Risk Analysis
87 Escalating Investments in R&D
88 Searching for the Best Price
89 Incentive Pay at Du Pont’s
Fiber Division
90 A Loss-Making Benefits Plan
91 A “Lemons” Market
92 A Building Contract
93 Health Insurance and Medical Spending
94 The Financial Meltdown
95 Airbus’s Dysfunctional Organization96 DHL Worldwide Express
97 Integration or Franchising?
98 Information Technology and
Organizational Structure
99 Motivating Workers
100 Executive Compensation and Incentives
101 Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, and Lehman
102 Sanofi’s Bid for Genzyme
103 Selling a Warehouse
104 The Paperback Rights for In Search of
Excellence
105 A Patent Conflict
106 A Complex Procurement
107 Wooing David Letterman
108 Making a Tender Offer
109 Failed Agreements
110 Texaco versus Pennzoil
111 Bidding to Televise the Olympics
112 A Stock Repurchase
113 Auctioning Google’s Online Ads
114 Dutch Auctions
115 Bidding for an Office Building
116 The Winner’ Curse
117 A Competitive Procurement
118 Real-Life Bidding Behavior
119 An Investment Problem
120 An Optimal Computer Mix
121 Spending on Clean Water
122 Allocating HIV Resources
123 Staffing a Police Force
124 Clean Coal
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