Spending Per Year Of Life Gained - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2016
News

investments. He also shows how to develop a sound strategy and raise needed money, gain a real-world perspective about how allocators think and act, structure the team and investment process for success, and recognize the patterns View Details

October 2023 (Revised May 2025)
Case

Nelson Mandela: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the rise of Nelson Mandela from his tribal home in South Africa to president of the country. Rejecting expectations that he would be a tribal leader, Mandela instead dedicates his life to fighting Apartheid. After peaceful approaches fail, he joins... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; South Africa

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01 Oct 2002
News

The Class of 1977

two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

once-in-a-lifetime chance to be part of the Olympics - as among their reasons for taking on the ACOG challenge. "Along with the sense of pride and place," says Frazier, an Atlanta native who returned home... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

New Year's Eve 1999 gave revelers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for celebration - the exhilarating thrill of ringing in a year that's always had an aura of science fiction... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Feb 2002
What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

think? Original Article There are striking parallels between September 11 and the collapse of Enron. Both events involved widespread destruction of trust and its attendant costs. Both have now involved the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

Only difference: Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

consulting; and 46 percent of Yale graduates took jobs in financial services and 15 percent took jobs in consulting.13 The boom in jobs in financial services and consulting during the last ten years made... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

workers. Specifically, M&A deals can help women and people of color who are stuck in lower-level positions move up the ladder, according to research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang. In analyzing more than... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

[2]. However, this lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for electric heat pumps is not standard across the U.S.– we will cover an overview of electric heat pumps and main drivers that will likely impact U.S.... View Details

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

little effect on the restaurant or movie industry. Their contentment left society slightly better off. It is generally wonderful when parties are able to trade off interests to create value. In fact, one of the most important... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

Leslie A. Perlow

Leslie A. Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She leads the Crafting Your Life Special Project, dedicated to helping individuals make purposeful life choices while gathering... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

and resells it at market rates to consumers. Working Assets takes the equivalent of 1 percent of each person's phone bill and enters it into a nonprofit donation pool that goes each View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

companies, compares the benefits of studying the Valley to those that scientists gain when studying fruit flies. "There are very short life cycles in this area, so you can... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion

peers to support our project sponsor, DoctorNow, a Korean telehealth start-up. In the weeks leading up to our Seoul adventure, we diligently forged a solid working relationship, delved into comprehensive research of the company and the... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

Now in its second year, Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) are no credit, no fee elective courses for MBA students. SIPs are open to first and second year MBA students. They offer a great opportunity for students to think about career... View Details

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

during the civil war. Investing In Growth Still, Liberia's economic team expects at least 6-7 percent GDP growth per year but believes that double-digit growth, a rare economic outcome overall in Werker's... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

going on at the School. This year the presentation topics included the human tendency toward dishonesty, the use of crowdsourcing to solve major scientific problems, and the impact View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

2011
Working Paper

Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis

We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the U.S. In... View Details

Keywords: Fairness; Policy; Health Disorders; Marketplace Matching; Performance Effectiveness; Rank and Position; Health Industry; United States