Efficacy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
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Get Well Soon

million Pursuing Perfection grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In addition to funding an improvement-science training program, the grant requires that the hospital undertake improvement projects. Hence, Kotagal develops hospital-wide protocols with proven... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

well, but it was manual, requiring several redesigns and tweaks to perfect the models. It was frustrating. So Sabin designed a machine learning program that would test all of various parameters of club head design, iterate countless models, and then simulate their... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

national study on the efficacy of charter schools, and the results were jarring: Just 17 percent of charter schools outperformed their traditional public-school peers, while 37 percent performed significantly worse. And while charter... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes

is substantially lessened. Thomke and Reinertsen, while studying several hundred development projects in the fast-paced integrated circuit (IC) design industry, focused on the efficacy of two production technologies. One technology had... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

02 Aug 2018
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Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

Now some have criticized the efficacy of campaigns like the one that you ran with the Georgia Meth Project saying that it's very difficult to prove success and to attribute success to particular ads. How do you measure success? Langford:... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

believe in the efficacy of their ideas and in themselves." And finally, O'Donnell, who says that as a young man he never listened to those who gave him advice, reluctantly offers the following: "It's basic," he says. "Be honest with... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

the availability of critical resources, and the efficacy of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. The company has created a set of free publicly available visual analytic dashboards. "The algorithms highlight the... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

individuals. Entrepreneurial Spirits: Through the Seventeen Success Principles of Napoleon Hill by Poly Emenike (OPM 38, 2009) (The Napoleon Hill Foundation) A testimonial to the efficacy of the principles of Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), an... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

of the experience I had on my sabbatical led me to believe that I wanted to spend a year really giving of my time, and so I went to work with a nonprofit, whose board I had been on for the past five years, that did academic, rigorous assessments of the View Details

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