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  • 2022
  • Case

Mandalay Homes: Building Sustainable Innovation in Residential Construction

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Mandalay Homes, a home builder based in northern Arizona, is a market leader in energy efficiency based construction. The company is now at a crossroads for developing a strategy for the future. Internal leadership is in agreement that quality is better than quantity... View Details
Keywords: Green Building; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Construction Industry
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    Elisabeth C. Paulson

    Elisabeth Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first year course on Technology and Operations Management in the required curriculum.
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    Keywords: agriculture; federal government; state government; grocery; nonprofit industry
    • 07 Mar 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

    for the auction house, which must determine how to allocate marketing and other expenditures between buyers and sellers to attract new business. As more job seekers sign on to Monster.com, more employers are willing to be paying customers... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services
    • 14 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

    Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford
    • Research Summary

    Internet Auctions for Close Substitutes

    Economists agree that eBays auction design is sensible and potentially welfare-maximizing for the trade of collectibles, which are unique and idiosyncratic. For mainstream goods, which have close but imperfect substitutes (cars, cameras, computers, clothes), the... View Details

    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Some Neglected Axioms in Fair Division

    By: John W. Pratt
    Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their entitlements if they receive nothing else. The "price" procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash... View Details
    Keywords: Resource Allocation; Valuation; Price; Cost
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    • 03 Mar 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism

    Keywords: by Katherine L. Milkman, James Burns, David C. Parkes, Gregory M. Barron & Kagan Tumer; Web Services
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Paying It Backward and Forward: Expanding Access to Convalescent Plasma Therapy Through Market Design

    By: Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sönmez and M. Utku Ünver
    COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) therapy is currently a leading treatment for COVID-19. At present, there is a shortage of CCP relative to demand. We develop and analyze a model of centralized CCP allocation that incorporates both donation and distribution. In order... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Convalescent Plasma; Vouchers; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Market Design
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    • May 2020
    • Article

    Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
    In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
    In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
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    • October 2014
    • Background Note

    Leader-as-Architect: Alignment

    By: Ethan Bernstein, Ryan Raffaelli and Joshua Margolis
    Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational strategy, shaping organizational identity, and then managing four organizational components—formal organizational structure, culture, people, and critical... View Details
    Keywords: Organization; Resource Management; Leadership; Business Processes; Design; Organizational Design; Identity; Strategy; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Alignment
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    • 09 Jan 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

    Keywords: by Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger; Health
    • June 2024
    • Article

    Real Growth in Space Manufacturing Output Substantially Exceeds Growth in the Overall Space Economy

    By: Tina Highfill and Matthew Weinzierl
    Accurately measuring real economic output in the space economy is made difficult by the rapid increase in capabilities and decrease in prices of launch and satellite technologies achieved over the past two decades. Nominal measures of output in space will tend to... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Economic Growth; Price; Production; Aerospace Industry
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    • 28 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

    Vivek F. Farias, both of MIT's Sloan School—can help policy designers create the most equitable point system based on their chosen constraints and criteria. They detail the proposed model in a new paper, Fairness, Efficiency and... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health
    • January 2011 (Revised July 2012)
    • Case

    Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change (Abridged)

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
    Arcadia Biosciences is seeking to introduce genetically modified rice to China that will lower farmers' costs and generate environmental benefits through reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The case describes challenges facing this small agricultural biotechnology... View Details
    Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Intellectual Property; Genetics; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China
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    • 18 Nov 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Financial Development and Technology Diffusion

    Keywords: by Diego Comin & Ramana Nanda
    • December 2008 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mary Louise Shelman
    Arcadia Biosciences is an entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China; India; California
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    • 11 Oct 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

    “It’s a very lengthy process, and we continue to look to bring on new partners.” While the refugee and asylum-seeker algorithms have a particular application, Paulson says the methodology can be adapted to solve resource allocation... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
    • 10 Jun 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets

    Keywords: by Zacharias Sautner & Belén Villalonga
    • 02 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 2, 2016

    instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household attention View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne