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  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

his company, and a discussion of recent efforts by Abrahams to break free of constraints that have limited the size and revenue-generating ability of Improbable Research for many years. Among those efforts are a decision to distribute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

All For One

some constraints on that creativity, Hill has found that most firms err on the side of too much limitation. “If you have talented, passionate people, it’s going to get pretty crazed at times. But if you don’t allow that creativity to be... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

policy, with a Pareto‐efficient objective that trades off this principle and conventional utilitarianism, is simulated using conventional constraints and methods. A wide range of optimal policy outcomes can result, including those that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

assignment of termination and broad licensing rights to the financing firm occurs in contractually difficult environments in which there is no specifiable lead product candidate. We also analyze how the contractual design varies with the R&D firm's financial View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

determine the equilibrium supply chain structure. These operational tradeoffs arise as a result of the geographic constraints posed by the availability of arable land and the spatial population distribution. We model the interdependent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

some of the staff that are necessary for the elective procedures that we’ll hopefully be doing in the not-too-distant future? How do we balance that from a capacity standpoint, a PPE standpoint, and also a staffing standpoint? That is one... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

unfavorable expectations face an additional constraint: their prices and first-party content investment need to be such that low (zero) participation equilibria are eliminated. This additional constraint typically leads them to invest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

as the state grew in the middle of the 20th century through the Great Depression and World War Two, and the advance of entitlements, we needed to fund those things and the fiscal capacity of the state grew. I think there's a lingering... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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constraint on growth, but instead tend to revolve around the organization’s capacity to scale. Very often, the very process of expanding the scale of the organization destroys the attributes (e.g. culture,... View Details