Sloan Center for Internet Retailing
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The University of California, Riverside
Sloan Center for Internet Retailing is a university research center dedicated to improving the effectiveness of online retailing.
The Center is housed at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
and is directed by Donna Hoffman
and Tom Novak
. It aims to foster an academic community that engages in direct interaction with the Internet retailing industry, conduct original research that has a real and positive impact on business practice and educate students to serve as managers and researchers devoted to addressing the Internet retailing industry's challenges.
The UCR Sloan Center is the home of eLab
, a virtual research lab and online panel for the study of online consumer behavior, and the eLab eXchange, a public prediction market
devoted to forecasting events related to Internet retailing.
University of California, Riverside
The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system. UCR is consistently ranked as one of the most ethnically and economically diverse universities in the United...
Sloan Center for Internet Retailing is a university research center dedicated to improving the effectiveness of online retailing.
The Center is housed at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management , is a part of the UCR School of Business Administration located at the University of California, Riverside. Current graduate degree offerings include a full-time/part-time MBA and executive MBA. A Ph.D...
and is directed by Donna Hoffman
Donna Hoffman
Donna Hoffman is the Chancellor's Chair at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Riverside. She is the founder of eLab, an online laboratory for consumer behavior research and the Co-Director of the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing.- Academic Career...
and Tom Novak
Tom Novak
Tom P. Novak is Albert O. Steffey Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing at the University of California, Riverside, where he joined the faculty in July 2006. Novak's research since 1993 has focused exclusively on Internet and Web based commerce...
. It aims to foster an academic community that engages in direct interaction with the Internet retailing industry, conduct original research that has a real and positive impact on business practice and educate students to serve as managers and researchers devoted to addressing the Internet retailing industry's challenges.
The UCR Sloan Center is the home of eLab
Elab
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, a virtual research lab and online panel for the study of online consumer behavior, and the eLab eXchange, a public prediction market
Prediction market
Prediction markets are speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions...
devoted to forecasting events related to Internet retailing.