This note discusses the measure of centrality, the pivotal concept in Hackman's (1985) theory of resource allocation. It suggests defining centrality in terms of a unit's centrality in an organization ...

Part I of this paper presented a method for primal decomposition of large convex separable programs into a sequence of smaller subproblems. In this part, additional theory and development of a ...

Marshall, Paul W. "Linear Programming: A Technique for Analyzing Resource Allocation Problems." Harvard Business School Background Note 171-322, January 1971. (Revised November 1975.) ...

This work presents an object placement and lookup method that achieves full placement flexibility, balanced load, low ...

Bower, J. L. Managing the Resource Allocation Process: A Study of Corporate Planning and Investment. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, Division of Research, 1970.