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  • 20 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

Globalization hasn't made manufacturing clusters obsolete, but the geographically concentrated pockets of industry have to be smart to ensure their survival, according to new research from Harvard Business School. Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson; Financial Services
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Where the Cloud Rests: The Location Strategies of Data Centers

By: Shane Greenstein and Tommy Pan Fang
This study provides an analysis of the entry strategies of third-party data centers in the United States. We examine the market before the pandemic in 2018 and 2019, when supply and demand for data services were geographically stable. We compare with the entry... View Details
Keywords: Cloud Computing; Location Strategies; Data Centers; Information Infrastructure
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  • 31 Jan 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and Adjustment Behavior

Keywords: by David F. Drake

    Hamdi Akın

    Keywords: Construction, infrastructure
    • October 2016
    • Article

    Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity

    By: Alan MacCormack and Daniel J. Sturtevant
    Technical debt is created when design decisions that are expedient in the short-term increase the costs of maintaining and adapting this system in future. An important component of technical debt relates to decisions about system architecture. As systems grow and... View Details
    Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Performance Efficiency; Applications and Software; Infrastructure
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    • 01 Mar 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Hurry Up and Wait: Differential Impacts of Congestion, Bottleneck Pressure, and Predictability on Patient Length of Stay

    Keywords: by Jaeker Berry Jillian & Anita L. Tucker; Health
    • 07 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Supply-Chain Disruptions Matter

    Keywords: by William Schmidt & Ananth Raman
    • April 1987 (Revised January 1988)
    • Background Note

    Managing Information Technology: IT Organization and Leadership

    By: Lynda M. Applegate
    Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Infrastructure; Leadership
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    • 01 Oct 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Organizational Factors that Contribute to Operational Failures in Hospitals

    Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker, W. Scott Heisler & Laura D. Janisse; Health
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Behavioral Operations

    Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Gary P. Pisano
    • April 1982 (Revised July 1986)
    • Case

    Brookfield Corp.'s Personal Computers (A)

    By: Walter J. Salmon
    Keywords: Information Technology; Information Infrastructure
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    • August 2005 (Revised August 2006)
    • Case

    Grupo Martica

    Grupo Martica commissions a computer security expert to conduct an audit of its systems, network, and processes. This audit reveals that Martica is quite vulnerable, and the company's de facto CIO must decide what steps to take to improve security. He wonders how... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Complexity
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    • 04 Oct 2022
    • Blog Post

    Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies

    dire implications for the world We need to dramatically accelerate deployment of capital into sustainable infrastructure projects.” – Amanda Li (MBA 2018), COO and co-founder of Banyan Infrastructure Amanda... View Details
    • April 1996
    • Case

    Southern Pulp and Paper

    A paper mill's paper machines are a bottleneck in the operation. The causes include poor scheduling, lack of investment, and ineffective process control. The plant manager is charged with improving this situation fairly rapidly and has a number of proposals for change... View Details
    Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Performance Improvement; Infrastructure; Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • Jan 2014
    • Case

    Rethinking Cities: Chicago on the Move

    decreasing popularity of cars and increasing urban populations—have implications for 21st century transportation and infrastructure. This is apparent in the case of Chicago, a global city in the vanguard of change. This paper focuses on five major 21st century... View Details
    • February 2008
    • Article

    Bandwidth Allocation in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Networks

    By: Albert Creus Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
    We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network. Given an arbitrary population of peers composed of sharers and freeriders, where all peers interconnect to maximize their allocated bandwidth, we derive the expected bandwidth... View Details
    Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Resource Allocation
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    • 08 Jul 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

    Keywords: by Kristina McElheran
    • Editorial

    Sanitation and State Capacity

    By: Akshay Mangla
    Keywords: India; State Capacity; Sanitation; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; India
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    • 08 Jul 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

    when a market participant or network of participants is able to leverage capabilities and infrastructure to increase revenues and profitability within a single product line or market. Economies of scope are achieved when a market... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate