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Cost-Effectiveness of Referring Patients to Centers of Excellence for Mitral Valve Surgery
(2015-05)
BACKGROUND
The 2014 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines state that mitral valve diseases should be repaired at a Center of Excellence (CoE). We evaluate the ...
Climate Change as a Cultural and Behavioral Issue: Addressing Barriers and Implementing Solutions
(2010-07)
At the core, environmental issues like climate change are not primarily technological or economic, but behavioral and cultural. While technological and economic activity may be the direct cause of environmentally destructive ...
Overcoming Gender Discrimination in Business: Reconsidering Mentoring in the Post #Me-Too and Covid-19 Eras
(2020-11)
Due to the #MeToo movement, awareness of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace is at an all-time high and the dividing line between the genders in the workplace may be at its greatest. Women, who were already at ...
The Growing Climate Divide
(2011-06)
Climate change has reached the level of a scientific consensus, but has not yet reached the level of a social consensus. The major obstacle towards achieving that end is the increasing partisan and ideological polarization ...
Management as a Calling: A Blueprint for Management Education in the 21st Century
(2018-09)
Business’s capacity to transform society is only as great as the schools that train its future leaders. This demands that business schools reform their vision to promote values of business serving society in order for ...
Who Killed the Inner Circle? The Decline of the American Corporate Interlock Network
(2015-10)
U.S. corporations shared members of their boards of directors since the early 1900s, creating a dense interlock network in which nearly every major corporation and director was connected through short paths and elevating ...
Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Research in (and on) the Anthropocene
(2015-01)
This review article summarizes the main tenets of institutional theory as they apply to the topic of the Anthropocene in the domain of organization and the natural environment (O&NE). But our review is distinctive for two ...
Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings from the Michigan Meeting
(2017-05)
This report and the conference it summarizes are an examination of how we, as academics, practice our craft; how we work to make it more relevant to broader publics and responsive to pressing societal problems. In May 2015, ...
Mentoring in Startup Ecosystems
(2017-11)
Effective mentoring programs are very difficult to structure and execute, even with the best intentions and reasonable budget. In this report we conduct a multi-institution empirical analysis of mentoring in startup ...
Coordinating Pricing and Inventory Replenishment with Nonparametric Demand Learning
(2015-06)
We consider a firm (e.g., retailer) selling a single nonperishable product over a finite-period planning horizon. Demand in each period is stochastic and price-dependent, and unsatisfied demands are backlogged. At the ...