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- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
responsibility. A setback like that could have been paralyzing, but he was able to move forward to lead his country to victory in World War II." The lesson, says Nohria, is that Churchill and other great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 30 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving
- 02 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth
- 2021
- Working Paper
No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions
By: Robert C. Merton and Richard T. Thakor
This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of a no-fault-default debt structure as an alternative to the typical bankruptcy process. We show that the deadweight costs of bankruptcy can be avoided or substantially reduced through no-fault-default debt, which permits a... View Details
Keywords: No-fault Default; Chapter 11; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Institutions; Contracts
Merton, Robert C., and Richard T. Thakor. "No-fault Default, Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, and Financial Institutions." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28341, January 2021.
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Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
In 2015, 70% of newly issued leveraged loans had weaker enforcement features, called covenant-light or "cov-lite"; this is nearly a three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cycles; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Contracts; Financing and Loans; Credit; Borrowing and Debt
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination." Swedish House of Finance Research Paper, No. 16-09, March 2016.
- 26 Jan 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
The Rise and Fall of Demand for Securitizations
- 09 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects
- 22 Jan 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?
- April 2009
- Journal Article
Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma
By: Paul S. Adler, Mary Benner, David James Brunner, John Paul MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley R. Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael Tushman and Sidney G. Winter
For more than a century, operations researchers have recognized that organizations can increase efficiency by adhering strictly to proven process templates, thereby rendering operations more stable and predictable. For several decades, researchers have also recognized... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Adaptation
Adler, Paul S., Mary Benner, David James Brunner, John Paul MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley R. Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael Tushman, and Sidney G. Winter. "Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma." Journal of Operations Management 27, no. 2 (April 2009): 99–113.
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
organization or in a decision-making role,” Chang says, “you can have optimism that any progress you made will probably persist beyond your tenure.” You Might Also Like: Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and other front line providers. Use of these measures in a payment system will also accelerate their implementation. Read More in Publications on Outcomes Measurement Read More About ICHOM Cost Measurement Accurate cost measurement is essential to View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy... View Details
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
companies, however, struggle to find the optimal balance. While Farronato’s research shows that producing fewer items allows retailers to charge more for them, if companies produce too few, they also risk losing out on additional sales.... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
make it the norm. August 2013 Management Science Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization By: Iancu, Dan, and Nikolaos Trichakis Abstract—This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto e ciency in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
optimizing banner design are much smaller than those from adopting browser-level consent, which eliminates the time costs of repeated decisions. Keywords: Consumer Behavior ; Decision Choices and Conditions ; Welfare ; Policy Citation... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
the bat, the exit velocity when you hit the ball. That didn't exist 10 years ago. And what you're seeing is that hitters are now optimizing their swing to hit home runs and pitchers are optimizing their... View Details
- 15 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
- July–August 2013
- Article
Building Sustainable Cities
By: John D. Macomber
By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details
Macomber, John D. "Building Sustainable Cities." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 40–50.
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Finance - Faculty & Research
of controls, which in turn has prevented a quantitative assessment of optimal capital control models against the data. We contribute to this debate by addressing both positive and normative features of capital controls. On the positive... View Details
- June 2021
- Article
From Predictions to Prescriptions: A Data-driven Response to COVID-19
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Léonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Lingzhi Li, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Jean Pauphilet, Omar Skali Lami, Bartolomeo Stellato, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg and Cynthia Zeng
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges worldwide. Strained healthcare providers make difficult decisions on patient triage, treatment and care management on a daily basis. Policy makers have imposed social distancing measures to slow the disease, at... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Analytics and Data Science
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Léonard Boussioux, Ryan Cory-Wright, Arthur Delarue, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Driss Lahlou Kitane, Galit Lukin, Michael Lingzhi Li, Luca Mingardi, Omid Nohadani, Agni Orfanoudaki, Theodore Papalexopoulos, Ivan Paskov, Jean Pauphilet, Omar Skali Lami, Bartolomeo Stellato, Hamza Tazi Bouardi, Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Holly Wiberg, and Cynthia Zeng. "From Predictions to Prescriptions: A Data-driven Response to COVID-19." Health Care Management Science 24, no. 2 (June 2021): 253–272.