
The word crisis with its origin in medicine was introduced into psychology and psychiatry and started to carry the meaning of “important point” and then generalized into a term for critical danger. The origin of the word crisis is the Greek “Krisis (judgment)” or “Krinein (decision, make selection).” The word has a meaning of a turning point for better or worse, a decisive moment, or crucial time.

In other words, crisis is the time when a moderate disease condition is making a big change. 5, 1194-1194.Webster, one of the well-known dictionaries in the USA, defines “crisis” as the turning point of whether a disease is going to heal or to worsen. Lippman and Read Ryan, “ On the Right of First Refusal”, Advances in Theoretical Economics, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. Lippman, “ Optimal Exit from a Deteriorating Project with Noisy Returns”, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol.

Lippman, “ Bargaining with Search as an Outside Option: The Impact of the Buyer’s Future Availability”, Decision Analysis, vol. Lippman and Kevin McCardle, “ Sex, Lies, and the Hillblom Estate,” Decision Analysis, vol. Lippman, “Optimal Exit from a Project with Noisy Returns”, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. Lippman and Richard Rumelt, “The Payments Perspective: Micro-Foundations of Resource Analysis”, Strategic Management Journal, vol. Bargaining with Search as an Outside Option: The Impact of the Buyer's Future Availability. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, vol. Optimal Exit from a Deteriorating Project with Noisy Returns. Advances in Theoretical Economics, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. and foreign executives, FEMBAs, full-time MBAs and undergraduates His audiences for this subject include U.S. He has published three books on statistics, the economics of search and the economics of information, as well as some 75 research papers on operations research, industrial organization, the economics of R&D and microeconomic theory.Īfter many years teaching statistics, stochastic processes, finance and individual decision-making, Lippman felt it was time to learn something completely new: He switched gears in 1993 and began studying and teaching negotiations analysis. However, he is best known for his work in the economics of search, for which he produced the standard reference in the field and has received more than one thousand citations. Lippman’s research interests include traditional management science/operations research topics, such as dynamic programming, queuing optimization, inventory theory and game theory. “It’s a combination that can be applied to the fields of information economics and labor economics (where search theory was first used in economics), industrial organization, and R&D (a subfield of industrial organization).”

“The focus stems from my knowledge of and facility with dynamic programming coupled with my interests in economics,” says Lippman. With just a few exceptions, I view my research as a mixture.”Įach of his papers contains a model designed to address a specific issue in economics or operations research that deals with sequential decision-making in the presence of uncertainty. “By contrast, my work would appear ‘applied’ to mathematicians. “Given that modeling and analysis are fundamental to my research approach, the level of abstraction and formalism in my writing would appear high to business people,” he says. Mathematical analysis underlies all of Lippman’s work. He began teaching at UCLA at the age of 23 and received tenure at the age of 27, making him one of the youngest faculty members to receive tenure at UCLA Anderson.

from UC Berkeley with a double major in economics and statistics, Professor Steven Lippman attended Stanford, where he received an M.S.
