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  • January 1975
  • Article

A Lattice Fixed-Point Theorem with Constraints

By: A. E. Roth
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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  • August 1974 (Revised November 1974)
  • Case

Reynolds Construction Company

By: Paul W. Marshall
Deals with the use of critical path method for the construction of remote control building, which is part of a water purification system. Discusses the necessity of determining the shortest possible time in which a job could be done without spending more money. Case... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Cost Management; Time Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; System; Construction Industry
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  • fall 1973
  • Article

Statistical Sampling in Auditing with Auxiliary Information Estimators

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Information
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  • spring 1973
  • Article

A Stochastic Model for Auditing

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Accounting Audits
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  • September 1972 (Revised February 1984)
  • Case

Blanchard Importing and Distribution Co., Inc.

By: Paul W. Marshall
Illustration of the two main types of errors resulting from use of the economic order quantity (EOQ) as a tool in production scheduling. Designed to permit class discussion to begin with a consideration of one common type of mistake, errors in calculation of the EOQ... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Production; Debates; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • Article

Overhead Allocation via Mathematical Programming Models

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Gerald Thompson
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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  • January 1971 (Revised November 1975)
  • Background Note

Linear Programming: A Technique for Analyzing Resource Allocation Problems

By: Paul W. Marshall
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Mathematical Methods; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 1970
  • Dissertation

Analytical Optimal Control Theory as Applied to Stochastic and Non-Stochastic Economics

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Economics
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  • 1969
  • Other Unpublished Work

An Empirical Investigation of the Samuelson Rational Warrant Pricing Theory

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Price
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  • April 1966
  • Article

A Two-Stage Forecasting Model: Exponential Smoothing and Multiple Regression

By: D. B. Crane and James R. Crotty
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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  • Other Unpublished Work

A Technique to Estimate Retail Demand and Lost Sales

By: A. Raman and Giulio Zotteri
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Demand and Consumers; Sales; Retail Industry
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  • Research Summary

Behavioral Hazard and Public Policy

By: Joshua R. Schwartzstein

It is well recognized that people overuse low-value medical care due to moral hazard—because copays are lower than costs. Now Professor Schwartzstein has introduced the concept of “behavioral hazard” to explain the opposite: people underuse high-value care because... View Details

  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics

By: Alexandre Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li, Martin Ramé and Kai Wang
Contagion models are ubiquitous in epidemiology, social sciences, engineering, and management. This paper formulates a prescriptive contagion analytics model where a decision maker allocates shared resources across multiple segments of a population, each governed by... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Mathematical Methods
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  • Teaching Interest

Case Method Teaching

By: V.G. Narayanan
I like to offer seminars on Case Method Teaching to professors who would like to improve their case-method teaching. View Details
Keywords: Cases; Education Industry; India
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Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement

By: Jerry R. Green
For the past century, economists have used the hypothesis that individual choice is based on rationality in their calculations of individual and collective welfare. The central ideas are that actual market choice reveal underlying preferences, and with a good set of... View Details
  • Research Summary

Compensatory Transfers in Collective Decision Making

By: Jerry R. Green
Jerry R. Green is studying mechanisms that can be employed to promote efficient collective decisions while providing justifiable compensation to participants who favor different, less efficient alternatives. This type of decision problem is pervasive in business,... View Details
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Cost Management and Management Control Systems in Hospitals

By: V.G. Narayanan

 Hospitals tend not to have very good cost accounting and control systems. More broadly,  there is enormous opportunity for managing costs and aligning incentives in the health care industry. I am studying how cost accounting methods can be used to... View Details

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Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

By: Laura Alfaro
We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for... View Details
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Design Driven Innovation

By: Roberto Verganti

Firms, managers and scholars have often balanced between two approaches to innovation: user centered (where incremental innovation is pulled by the market) and technology push (where innovation comes from breakthrough development in technologies). However there is a... View Details

  • Research Summary

Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

By: Michael Beer

Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

  1. Capacity of the... View Details

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