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Organ donations from deceased donors (cadavers) provide the majority of transplanted organs in the United States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the... View Details

Keywords: Organ Donation; Health; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods; United States

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October 2002 (Revised May 2021)
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Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (A)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman

The night before the launch of the Challenger shuttle, officials from Morton Thiokol (Solid Rocket Booster manufacturer) and NASA participated in a teleconference to discuss whether to postpone the shuttle launch due to predicted low temperatures at Kennedy Space... View Details

Keywords: Process Analysis; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Engineering; Risk Management; Analysis; Decision Making; Aerospace Industry; United States

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30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

apply came from talking to HBS alumni. While each individual had unique experiences and found varying degrees of career success, not one regretted the decision to attend. I never detected a single trace of regret. That might not be the... View Details

01 Oct 1989
Conference Presentation

Organization Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective

By: L. M. Applegate and J. C. Henderson

Keywords: Organizations; Decisions; Groups and Teams

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23 Jun 2016
News

Making better decisions when it comes to your health

1986
Article

Model Management Systems: Designs for Decision Support

By: L. M. Applegate, B. Konsynski and J. Nunamaker

Keywords: Management; System; Design; Decision Making

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1991
Chapter

Organizational Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective

By: L. M. Applegate and J. Henderson

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decisions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Organizational Culture

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01 Sep 1998
News

The Hidden Traps in Decision Making

Keywords: John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Riaffa

June 2005
Article

Compensatory Transfers in Two-Player Decision Problems

By: Jerry R. Green

This paper presents an axiomatic characterization of a family of solutions to two-player quasi-linear social choice problems. In these problems the players select a single action from a set available to them. They may also transfer money between... View Details

Keywords: Bargaining; Cost Allocation; Decision Making

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