Submitted by ABarnes on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 16:29
Igor Vaysman is Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting, College of Business Administration,University of Texas at Austin. Professor Vaysman received his B.S. from Trinity University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His teaching and research interests include managerial and organizational design, costing systems, and decentralization.
Submitted by rthomas on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 16:01
Professor Bhide notes that managers recognize the need for balance between centralized command-and-control and individual initiative and judgment. But he observes that in recent times “a new form of centralized control has taken root – one that is the work not of old-fashioned autocrats, committees, or rule books but of statistical models and algorithms.”