organ transplants - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver

challenges of organ transplantation: "There's a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one," explains... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2012
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Faculty Research Online

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives

chance at life through bone marrow donations, and has registered more than 4 million bone marrow donors worldwide. After losing his first wife to blood cancer, Harf and his wife’s physician launched DKMS. With his daughter, Katharina, Harf has built it into the most... View Details

17 Aug 2011
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Breath of Life

for other hollow organs, such as the esophagus, where cancer is 20 times more prevalent than in the trachea. Eventually, similar techniques will be applied to the big five solid organs — heart, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas — though... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

PublicationsNonsimultaneous Chains and Dominos in Kidney Paired Donation—Revisited Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Duncan S. Gilchrist, Alvin E. Roth, and Michael A. Rees Publication:American Journal of Transplantation 11, no. 5 (May 2011)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/2/3/257/pdf Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate Authors:Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Organ... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
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Rebel with a Cause

introduced HIV and hepatitis C into his system. Today he’s in full health: a liver transplant cured both the hemophilia and the hepatitis, and tests showed he is naturally immune to HIV infection. This past March Massie was named... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

on the cadaver waiting list. “We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with.” They sent the paper to several kidney surgeons. The medical director of the New England Organ Bank met with Roth to pursue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

Summing Up: Which Schools Will Produce the Next Generation of Transformative Leaders? This month’s column featured two leaders who were able to build organizations that literally transformed the mutual fund and airline industries. In the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

lower. But sniping isn't a universal strategy for success, says Roth, who teaches in the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit. It's all in the rules of the game. On Amazon.com, for example, where end-of-auction deadlines... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

21 Sep 2018
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HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups

Point Media in Santa Monica. “It was a fantastic dynamic,” says Alexa McCulloch (MBA 1999), the workshop organizer and president of the club. “We assured each presenter that this was a confidential opportunity to open up and ask... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

politico-economic aspects of organ shortage in transplantation medicine." Social Science & Medicine 46:299-311. Richardson, Ruth, and Brian Hurwitz. 1995. "Donors' attitudes towards body... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

and Why? Authors:Stephen Leider and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Journal of Transplantation 10 (May 2010): 1221-1227 Abstract The shortage of transplant kidneys has spurred debate about legalizing monetary... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

research effort. In 1996, however, Cheauré made a dramatic shift when he parlayed his enthusiasm for purebred dogs into a second career and took the helm of the American Kennel Club (AKC), a $60 million not-for-profit organization devoted... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

19 Jun 2018
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Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

volunteers. “We heard from three organizations,” says the program’s chair, Mark Chussil (MBA 1979). “We selected two, and will field teams for both of them, based on their needs, and the skills and experience of our volunteers.” The winning pitches came from Relay... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing his first wife to blood... View Details

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

business school, Ilana was a registered nurse on the Bone Marrow Transplant and COVID-19 units at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She also brings operational experience from her roles at two early-stage... View Details

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

investing) was a very American activity. Efforts to transplant the model were few and far between, and these efforts were usually unsuccessful. It is easy to see why it is hard to create a new venture capital industry "from... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Project Antares with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health. The effort aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, such as delivering medicines at very low cost. A speedy View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

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