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  • 18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

developmental justification, aid is deeply political. This paper examines the political economy of aid allocation first from the perspective of the donor country, and then the political economy of aid receipt and implementation from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

from the incorporation of non-directed donors in transplant chains rather than simple exchanges. It is controversial whether these chains should be performed simultaneously ("domino paired donation," DPD) or nonsimultaneously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508102 The Energy Foundation Harvard Business School Case 308-078 The Energy Foundation, a philanthropic foundation established through a partnership among major donors with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13

some circumstances, charities with identical objectives can differ by obtaining funds from distinct donor groups. The model then provides an interpretation for situations in which the number of charities rises while total donations are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

and an online community to create solutions for social issues. Emphasis is placed on comparing the IDEO and OpenlDEO processes using real-world project examples. For IDEO this includes the redesign of Air New Zealand's long haul flights. For OpenIDEO this includes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

Allocation for Kidney Transplantation Authors:Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis Abstract We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006

This paper examines accountability processes in a nonprofit organization serving immigrants and refugees, with special attention to their impacts on mission-based activities. The research finds that upward accountability requirements of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2007
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for assigning children to schools in Boston and New York and for facilitating exchanges of kidneys. Computers enable the design of "smart markets" that combine the inputs of users in complex ways: In kidney exchange, they run through every possible match of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-103.pdf   Cases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2011
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The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

projects with social impact—from cleaning up a river to saving animals—and allowed other users to vote on which projects Pepsi should fund. Or consider DonorsChoose.org, which allows donors to contribute funds directly to low income... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2008
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How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

help shape it. Q:  What are you working on next? A: I'm making a matching market for live donor kidneys for transplant, a kidney exchange. This is a market that gives market designers an opportunity to help save lives a little more... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

and Models, edited by G. Caprio, 47-58. U.K.: Academic Press, 2012 Abstract Despite its developmental justification, aid is deeply political. This paper examines the political economy of aid allocation first from the perspective of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

planning, HIV/AIDS, and malaria prevention must determine what to do about their slow-to-take-off clean water initiative. PSI's point-of-use products offered effective protection against water-borne diseases, especially diarrhea, yet the organization found it hard to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has grown in practice, cycles among n>3 pairs have proved useful, and long chains initiated by non-directed, altruistic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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