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  • June 1991
  • Background Note

Corporate Advantage: Identifying and Exploiting Resources

By: David J. Collis
Describes the economic theory that was behind the view that resources are central to the creation of value in multibusiness corporations and identifies tests that resources must pass to become part of a firm's "distinctive competence". Describes how those resources can... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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Collis, David J. "Corporate Advantage: Identifying and Exploiting Resources." Harvard Business School Background Note 391-285, June 1991.
  • January 2003
  • Article

A Multivariate Model of Strategic Asset Allocation

By: Luis M. Viceira, John Y. Campbell and Y. Lewis Chan
Keywords: Assets; Resource Allocation
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Viceira, Luis M., John Y. Campbell, and Y. Lewis Chan. "A Multivariate Model of Strategic Asset Allocation." Journal of Financial Economics 67, no. 1 (January 2003): 41–80. (Click here for Appendix. Winner of the second 2003 Fama/DFA Prize for Capital Markets and Asset Pricing.)
  • August 2012
  • Article

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

By: Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth
Organ donations from deceased donors (cadavers) provide the majority of transplanted organs in the United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the... View Details
Keywords: Organ Donation; Health; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods; United States
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Kessler, Judd B., and Alvin E. Roth. "Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate." American Economic Review 102, no. 5 (August 2012): 2018–2047.
  • May 2023
  • Article

Incentive Effects of Subjective Allocations of Rewards and Penalties

By: Wei Cai, Susanna Gallani and Jee-Eun Shin
We examine the incentive effects of subjectivity in allocating tournament-based rewards and punishments. We use data from a company where reward and punishment decisions are based on a combination of objective metrics and subjective performance assessments. Rankings... View Details
Keywords: Subjectivity; Tournament-based Incentives; Rewards; Penalties; Expectancy Theory; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Management; Decisions; Performance; Measurement and Metrics
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Cai, Wei, Susanna Gallani, and Jee-Eun Shin. "Incentive Effects of Subjective Allocations of Rewards and Penalties." Management Science 69, no. 5 (May 2023): 3121–3139.
  • 1992
  • Chapter

Sharing the Burden. Fair Allocation and Equity

By: James K. Sebenius, Michael Grubb, Antonio Magalhaes and Susan Subak
Keywords: Fairness; Equality and Inequality; Resource Allocation; Welfare
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Sebenius, James K., Michael Grubb, Antonio Magalhaes, and Susan Subak. "Sharing the Burden. Fair Allocation and Equity." In Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications and Responses, edited by Irving Mintzer, 305–322. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • 2016
  • Chapter

Fiscal Issues for Cross-Border Natural Resource Projects

By: Joseph Bell and Jasmina Chauvin
Projects that cross national boundaries give rise to the complex question of how the project's taxable income should be allocated among the national entities. This chapter utilizes a hypothetical mining project with the mine and infrastructure in two different... View Details
Keywords: Extractive Industries; Business & Government Relations; Transfer Pricing; Taxation; Infrastructure; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business and Government Relations; Mining Industry
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Bell, Joseph, and Jasmina Chauvin. "Fiscal Issues for Cross-Border Natural Resource Projects." Chap. 8 in International Taxation and the Extractive Industries, edited by Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Artur Świstak, and Victor Thuronyi, 190–214. Routledge Studies in Development Economics. Routledge, 2016.
  • November 2007
  • Teaching Note

Asset Allocation I, II & III (TN)

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Keywords: Resource Allocation; Assets
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Coval, Joshua D., and Erik Stafford. "Asset Allocation I, II & III (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 208-089, November 2007.
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Scientific Production: An Exploration into Organization, Resource Allocation, and Funding

By: Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby, Karim R. Lakhani, Kyle R. Myers, Nina Cohodes, Sarah Bratt, Dennis Byrski, Hannah Cohoon and Maria Roche
Production of scientific knowledge is core to civilizational advancement in economic and material wellbeing of societies. Despite its fundamental importance, however, a systematic effort to quantitatively study the factors underlying scientific production, particularly... View Details
Keywords: Funding; Science; Knowledge; Research; Information Management; Resource Allocation
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Thursby, Jerry, Marie Thursby, Karim R. Lakhani, Kyle R. Myers, Nina Cohodes, Sarah Bratt, Dennis Byrski, Hannah Cohoon, and Maria Roche. "Scientific Production: An Exploration into Organization, Resource Allocation, and Funding." Working Paper, May 2020.
  • 2005
  • Chapter

Matching and Allocation in Medicine and Health Care

By: Alvin E Roth
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Health Industry
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Roth, Alvin E. "Matching and Allocation in Medicine and Health Care." In Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership, edited by P. Reid, W. Compton, J. Grossman, and G. Fanjiang, 237–239. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2005.
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Capital Allocation Hurdle Rates, Budgets or Both?

By: W. C. Kester and R. Taggart
Keywords: Resource Allocation; Capital; Budgets and Budgeting
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Kester, W. C., and R. Taggart. "Capital Allocation Hurdle Rates, Budgets or Both?" MIT Sloan Management Review 30, no. 3 (Spring 1989): 83–90.
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DEA Model with Shared Resources and Efficiency Decomposition

By: Yao Chen, Juan Du, H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has proved to be an excellent approach for measuring performance of decision making units (DMUs) that use multiple inputs to generate multiple outputs. In many real world scenarios, DMUs have a two-stage network process with shared input... View Details
Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Efficiency; Intermediate Measure; Performance Efficiency
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Chen, Yao, Juan Du, H. David Sherman, and Joe Zhu. "DEA Model with Shared Resources and Efficiency Decomposition." European Journal of Operational Research 207, no. 1 (November 2010): 339–349.
  • May 1987 (Revised June 1987)
  • Background Note

Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)

By: David A. Garvin
Describes Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II), a production technique designed to couple business and financial plans with manufacturing plans. It is an important tool for aligning manufacturing with a company's overall strategy and goals. Describes MRPII,... View Details
Keywords: Design; Finance; Surveys; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Production; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy
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Garvin, David A. "Note on Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)." Harvard Business School Background Note 687-097, May 1987. (Revised June 1987.)
  • December 2009
  • Article

Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions

By: Yuhai Xuan
This article investigates how the job histories of CEOs influence their capital allocation decisions when they preside over multi-divisional firms. I find that, after CEO turnover, divisions not previously affiliated with the new CEO receive significantly more capital... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Budgeting; Financial Management; Managerial Roles; Resource Allocation
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Xuan, Yuhai. "Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 12 (December 2009): 4919–4948. (Online Appendix.)
  • October 2004
  • Article

Strategic Asset Allocation in a Continuous-time VAR Model

By: John Y. Campbell, George Chacko, Jorge Rodriguez and Luis M. Viceira
Keywords: Assets; Resource Allocation; Strategy
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Campbell, John Y., George Chacko, Jorge Rodriguez, and Luis M. Viceira. "Strategic Asset Allocation in a Continuous-time VAR Model." Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control 28, no. 11 (October 2004): 2195–2214.
  • January–February 2013
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Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the United... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Policy; Healthcare; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Health Industry; United States
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Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis. "Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation." Operations Research 61, no. 1 (January–February 2013): 73–87.
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Where Do Resources Come from? The Role of Idiosyncratic Situations

By: Gautam Ahuja and Riitta Katila
In this paper, we examine the emergence of resources. Our analysis of technological capability acquisition by global U.S.-based chemical firms shows that the emergence of resources is inherently evolutionary. We find that path-creating search that generates resource... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Resource Allocation
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Ahuja, Gautam, and Riitta Katila. "Where Do Resources Come from? The Role of Idiosyncratic Situations." Special Issue on The Global Acquisition, Leverage, and Protection of Technological Competencies. Strategic Management Journal 25, nos. 8-9 (August–September 2004): 887–907.
  • March–April 2017
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Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources." Organization Science 28, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 339–354.
  • September 8, 2020
  • Article

Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties

By: Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra and Sendhil Mullainathan
This study describes correlations between the dollar amount of relief funding authorized by the US Congress to fund prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to reimburse health care entities for lost revenues, and county-level... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Resource Allocation; Demographics; Race
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Kakani, Pragya, Amitabh Chandra, and Sendhil Mullainathan. "Allocation of COVID-19 Relief Funding to Disproportionately Black Counties." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 324, no. 10 (September 8, 2020): 1000–1003.
  • 2011
  • Chapter

Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis

By: Robert C. Pozen, Betsy Palmer and Natalie Shapiro
Keywords: History; Assets; Resource Allocation; Investment Portfolio; Financial Crisis
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Pozen, Robert C., Betsy Palmer, and Natalie Shapiro. "Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis." In Growing Old: Paying for Retirement and Institutional Money Management after the Financial Crisis, edited by Y. Fuchita, R. Herring, and R. Litan. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.
  • February 1996 (Revised May 2002)
  • Teaching Note

Xerox: Outsourcing Global Information Technology Resources TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan
Teaching Note for (9-195-158). View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Global Range; Resource Allocation; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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McFarlan, F. Warren. "Xerox: Outsourcing Global Information Technology Resources TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 196-086, February 1996. (Revised May 2002.)
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