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September 2023
Supplement

Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation Dataset for Students

By: Shawn Cole

2009
Working Paper

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Market Entry and Exit; Welfare; Health Industry; Pennsylvania

1996
Working Paper

Efficiency and Legitimacy: The Adoption of TQM by Large Industrial Corporations

By: Nitin Nohria and Sandy E. Green

September 2023
Supplement

Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation: Guidelines and Suggestions

By: Shawn Cole

2009
Working Paper

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Market Entry and Exit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Government Legislation; Mathematical Methods; Health Industry; Pennsylvania

2024
Working Paper

Dusting Off the Old Ones: Drug Licensing to Startups, Innovation Success and Efficiency

By: Mosab Hammoudeh, Joshua Lev Krieger and Jiajie Xu

This paper investigates whether moving R&D from incumbents to startups can increase innovation. Using comprehensive drug development data, we examine the outcomes of drug projects licensed from large firms to startups. We find that these projects licensed to startups... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Research and Development; Performance Efficiency; Pharmaceutical Industry

November/December 2003
Article

Building the Velcro Organization: Creating Value Through Integration and Maintaining Organization-Wide Efficiency

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Organizations; Value; Integration; Performance Efficiency

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May 2004
Article

The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America

A decade of experience has shown that monitoring the performance of public and private monopolies is the hardest part of electricity sector reform in South America—because operators control most of the information needed for effective regulation. South American... View Details

Keywords: Information; Mathematical Methods; Monopoly; Globalization; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; South America

22 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

Keywords: by Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak & Alvin E. Roth

2001
Working Paper

The Efficiency of Equity-Linked Compensation: Understanding the Full Cost of Awarding Executive Stock Options

1995
Working Paper

Away with the Curse: Effects of Communication on the Efficiency and Distribution of Outcomes

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Joseph Moag and Max Bazerman

June 2012
Teaching Note

Edward Lundberg and the Rockville Building: Energy Efficiency Finance in Commercial Real Estate (TN)

By: John D. Macomber and Annelena Lobb

Article

Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber?

By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin

New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and consumers to transact with relative ease and increased trust. These platforms provide notable benefits including reducing... View Details

Keywords: Platforms; Regulation; Sharing Economy; Uber; Airbnb; Universal Service; Insurance; Market Platforms; Service Delivery; Software; Service Industry

2007
Working Paper

Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match

By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu and Alvin E. Roth

01 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber?

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Damien Geradin; Web Services

2015
Report

The Value of Data: Consequences for Insight, Innovation & Efficiency in the U.S. Economy

By: John A. Deighton and Peter A. Johnson

February 1998
Article

'A Matter of Trust': Effects of Communication on the Efficiency and Distribution of Outcomes

By: K. L. McGinn, J. Moag and M. H. Bazerman

Keywords: Trust; Communication; Outcome or Result; Distribution

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1996
Working Paper

'A Matter of Trust': Effects of Communication on the Efficiency and Distribution of Outcomes

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Joseph Moag and Max Bazerman

2020
Chapter

El problema de la productividad [The Productivity Problem]

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

The weak performance of the Latin American region in terms of the growth of its GDP is largely due to its low productivity growth. In fact, the region's main problem has been its lack of efficiency in combining capital and labor to produce. In this chapter, we... View Details

Keywords: GDP Growth; Productivity Growth; Efficiency; Labor; Capital; Growth and Development; Latin America