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Sophie Bai (HBS 2020) is working with classmates Danielle Waldman (HBS 2020), Elaine Liu (HBS 2020), Natalie Knipp (HBS 2020), Graham Lieberman (HBS 2017), Arting Chang (HBS2020), Qimei Luo, Matthew Wozny (HBS 2019), Anna Ike (HBS 2021), Judy Kim (HBS 2021), Jess Yuan... View Details

June 2007
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Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

By: A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver

Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Size; Emotions; Human Needs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Fairness; Performance Improvement; Health Industry

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