Reallocation - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

company decided to reallocate most of its employees from temporarily locked-down activities to the inbound logistics and internal order handling. To sustain the radical change of operations and deliver on the huge spike in orders, the... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

reallocated for city delivery work. That’s going to make things more efficient and strengthen supply-chain security.” Just Charge It That EV section of your nearby parking lot is only going to grow, says Molly Middaugh (MBA 2018). She’s... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

models, which will continue to add value after the crisis subsides. Saenz and O’Keeffe state: “Leading companies are reallocating resources to pockets of current and future growth, such as e-commerce, to protect against revenue loss.”... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

01 Jun 2000
News

Capturing Human Capital

organization's vital information, knowledge, and expertise cannot be hauled to top-management levels for reallocation across competing needs. These reside deep within the organization and therefore must be developed and leveraged through... View Details

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

about the best location or locations for managerial talent, for instance, they should be aware that reallocating talent is neither costless nor easy. Interpersonal relationships and internal communication networks rise in importance. As... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/ Working Papers Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

12 Jul 2011
News

Phone Fun

have included gangster elf-themed holiday wrapping paper and a Valentine’s Day condom giveaway. “I tell my team that ideas are key and if those ideas are good, I'll reallocate budgets to make them happen,” Braterman said in the June 3... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

channel is selection and market reallocation whereby competition leads to factor reallocation both within and between domestic firms and exits of the least productive firms. We investigate the roles of these... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

needed to manage its operations by business instead of by country, strategically reallocating resources. "I also showed them how to look at expenses as a percentage of revenues, something that's commonly done in the packaged-goods... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition from multinationals leads to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

through affective mechanisms. Working Papers Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom, and William Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2020
News

Ink: The Habit of Innovation

revive the zombie. ... Almost every company has more resources than it realizes. Find and put the zombies down, reallocate resources on your most promising projects, and you will suddenly see your innovation efforts become bigger, better,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition from multinationals leads to factor View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

Web

Product Management - Course Catalog

Pursuing Adjacent Products. How to find a new product adjacency? How to develop a MVP for a new product adjacency? How to shut down a poor performing product and reallocate the team to a new growth opportunity? Course Pedagogy The PM... View Details

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

information technology until something breaks. This crisis required rapid and large reallocation of modern information technology, with particular links to communications. Some of it broke. The best organizations have had the ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

revenue toward high impact opportunities, then an investment may allow the financier to reallocate funds to other purposes. Does the company have opportunities to expand its profitability at little cost to its social mission? If yes, an... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset pricing model is used to derive the hypothesis that JGTRRA should lead to a portfolio reallocation by U.S. investors towards equities in tax-favored countries. A difference-in-difference... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

whereby headquarter locations have been split up and reallocated across the world, and c) the growing importance of non-US markets for US firms. Rather than questioning the loyalties of executives, it is critical to understand these... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

reallocates resources to go after those 'cracks', they will be missed." At the end of the day, he wrote, "most investors are looking at total cash flow return on total investment. An agile corporate center can better focus on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

philosophy are flawed? What if intellectual capital rather than financial capital was the scarce resource, as it is in many companies today? Unlike financial resources, an organization's vital information, knowledge, and expertise cannot be hauled to top management... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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