We study two firms that compete on price and lead-time decisions in a common market. We explore the impact of decentralizing these decisions, as made by the marketing and production departments, respectively, with either marketing or production as the leader. We compare scenarios in which none,...

Cook County Hospital, like many hospitals in the United States and worldwide, is pursuing a strategy to combat health-care associated infections (HAIs). In the United States, approximately two million people are infected each year and over 100,000 die. In this paper, an interdisciplinary team of...