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ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network ICIC Initiative for a Competitive...
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- Working Paper
The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
By: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees and Alvin E. Roth
It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost) efficient kidney exchange can be achieved by using at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has...
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Networks;
Complexity;
Performance Efficiency;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Ashlagi, Itai, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18202, July 2012.
- 17 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women
working-class women about diminished possibilities for their husbands and sons to provide for their families. Many supporters’ families work in blue-collar occupations such as construction, transportation, and infrastructure; live in low...
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by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
algorithm,” Zhang says. “It provides flexibility. There is opportunity for a (Black) host to improve revenue, but only if you use it.” It’s unclear why fewer Black hosts use the tool. Asian and Latino hosts also appear to use the...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
or she did a good job." Ashok Malhotra favors "reasonable incentives for short-term performance" and "higher incentives for long-term performance." The rationale, as Mark Evans explains, is that "a CEO must develop and implement strategies...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
fan, and historian, his expertise is both varied and deep. He and his wife, Maria, have raised five children, and their blended family brings them great joy. The pair has generously supported various organizations that provide direct...
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Susan Young
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
mixed martial artists from around the world. An enormous screen shows highlights from previous matchups held since ONE FC’s 2011 founding, in locations as diverse as China, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Cambodia, but the...
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- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
sign up for the job to stare at a screen. They are doing this to provide care for people,” says one of the study’s co-authors, Joel Goh, a visiting scholar in the Technology & Operations Management Unit...
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Kyle Schultz
Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied.
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- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
prudent temperaments while others flourish in the hands of risk takers. Brands thrive when there's a close fit between process and corporate temperament. This explanation, I believe, will provide the framework for understanding Triarc's...
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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
to recent research, the single most important factor is simply a sense of making progress on meaningful work. But creating an environment that fosters progress takes some careful effort. In their new book, The Progress Principle: Using...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
distress prevalent among Chinese women. MOONWISE intends to produce bite-sized courses for teenage girls and provide training for teachers and parents. Clockwise from top left: Rea Savla, Sophy Wang, Benjamin Schedl, Teresa Danso-Danquah...
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
With very clean emissions, 60 and 70 MPG fuel consumption, and lots of power, diesel compacts would provide stiff competition to hybrids. But GM has just lost its ability to develop small cars with the sale of its Opel subsidiary to...
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- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many US hospitals could not provide enough beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of inadequate capacity is of utmost importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing the...
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- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC...
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- 14 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects of Staff Participation and Collaboration in Healthcare Delivery
- January 2011 (Revised April 2014)
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Uptake of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests
By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Kindred and Richard Sedlmayr
This case describes barriers to adoption of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Zambia and highlights the importance of understanding end users in promoting product adoption. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are simple, easy-to-use tools that provide a relatively reliable,...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Health Pandemics;
Technology;
Health Care and Treatment;
Policy;
Behavior;
Prejudice and Bias;
Health Industry;
Zambia
Ashraf, Nava, Natalie Kindred, and Richard Sedlmayr. "Uptake of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests." Harvard Business School Case 911-007, January 2011. (Revised April 2014.) (Request a courtesy copy.)
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2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy - MBA
Acts Careful note should be taken that Harvard Business School is not and should not be considered to be a protector or sanctuary from the existing laws of the city, state, or federal government. A social host may under certain...
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- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
activity, and even when provided with free supplies, people continue to wash their hands without soap—if they wash their hands at all. “If you look at these public health initiatives, you see that they are often a complicated combination...
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by Carmen Nobel