Publications

July 2011
Article

Kidney Paired Donation

By: C. Bradley Wallis, Kannan P. Samy, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees

Kidney paired donation (KPD) was first suggested in 1986, but it was not until 2000 when the first paired donation transplant was performed in the U.S. In the past decade, KPD has become the fastest growing source of transplantable kidneys, overcoming the barrier faced... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Success; Problems and Challenges; Programs; System; United States

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From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Alvin J. Silk, Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. We appreciate their support and enthusiasm for our work and collections. This project would not have been possible without the... View Details

Editorial

NEAD Chains in Transplantation

By: Itai Ashlagi, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees

Article

Teaching Auction Strategy Using Experiments Administered via the Internet

By: John Asker, Brit Grosskopf, C. Nicholas McKinney, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and George Weizsäcker

Keywords: Teaching; Auctions; Strategy; Online Technology

01 Jun 1996
News

Reinventing Marketing

own activities many functions that were formerly the province of marketing," says Professor Alvin J. Silk, unit cochair. "Marketing is indeed experiencing a watershed," adds Silk's colleague and the unit's... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; Illustration by Peter Hoey

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

Soviet Union fought in the shadow of the capitalist-communist clash. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49811 forthcoming Journal of Public Economics Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence from View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

execute such campaigns? According to HBS professor Alvin J. Silk and MIT professor Ernst R. Berndt, "The long-run cost function for firms in the global advertising and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

"Africanize" their corporate image through these campaigns. Multi-agent Learning and the Descriptive Value of Simple Models Authors:Ido Erev and Alvin E. Roth Periodical:Special Issue on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2019
News

Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

Clubs News Clubs News A group of 33 members and guests of the HBS Women’s Association of New York (HBSWANY) took an outing on January 16 to see Gloria: A Life, a two-act play about the feminist icon Gloria Steinem, currently running at the Daryl View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2010
Working Paper

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried

This paper provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Surveys; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Job Search; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Service Operations; Internet and the Web

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

Match—The First Two Years Authors:Muriel Niederle, Deborah D. Proctor, Alvin E. Roth Publication:Gastroenterology 135, no. 2 (August 2008) Abstract Read paper... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

about the most interesting business trends of the year, and your predictions for 2021. Top 10 most popular stories Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk Ken Frazier, one of only four Black CEOs of Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

how are they likely to shape the future for media competitors, advertisers, and their agencies? HBS professor Alvin Silk has long studied such issues, and his latest findings, presented in a new working... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-082.pdf Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth Abstract As multi-hospital kidney... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried

This paper, written by the members of the American Economic Association (AEA) Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the AEA in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Jobs and Positions