Power in multiple perspectives
We believe that actionable research is a fundamental part of discovering, implementing, and scaling innovations that can transform today’s health system. Our leadership team and Advisory Board bring a wide variety of professional experiences to HSI, supporting our researchers' efforts. Our researchers have deep expertise in multiple disciplines:
- Economics, finance, and behavioral science
- Operations research and analytics
- Work and organization studies
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Economics, Finance, and Behavioral Science
Ernst Rudolf Berndt
Louis E. Seley Professor Emeritus in Applied Economics
Ernst Berndt is a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Until January 2011, he was Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Program on Technological Progress and Productivity Measurement. Berndt’s recent…
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Ford Foundation International Career Development Assistant Professor
Mert Demirer is the Ford Foundation International Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Demirer’s main area of research is industrial organization with a…
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Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management
Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He studies public economics in the areas of healthcare and child welfare. His healthcare research investigates sources of value…
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William F. Pounds Associate Professor of Management
Dean Eckles is the William F. Pounds Associate Professor of Management and an Associate Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. He is affiliate faculty at the Institute for Data, Systems & Society in the Schwarzman College of Computing. His substantive…
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Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Robert Gibbons is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and he is Professor of Economics in MIT’s Department of Economics. He is also the co-principal…
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David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology
Danielle Li is the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology and a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are in economics…
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Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance
Tong Liu is the Judy C. Lewent (1972) and Mark Shapiro Career Development Assistant Professor of Finance and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Tong’s research focuses on corporate finance, entrepreneurial…
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Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor
Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, a Professor of Finance, and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Lo's current research spans four areas: evolutionary models of…
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Mitsubishi Career Development Assistant Professor in International Management
Alexey Makarin is the Mitsubishi Career Development Assistant Professor in International Management and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Alexey is an applied economist with research interests in…
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Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Robert C. Pozen is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.In 2012, he won acclaim for a popular book entitled Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your…
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Erwin H. Schell Professor
David Rand is the Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, the director of the Applied Cooperation Initiative, and an affiliate of the MIT Institute of Data, Systems, and Society, and the…
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Hear name pronounced.Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Catherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. She is the faculty director of the EMBA program. She has also been the Chair of the MIT Sloan PhD Program. Her research interests lie in…
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Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor
Benjamin Vatter is the Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on competition and optimal policy design, with particular…
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Sloan Fellows Professor of Management
Michael D. Whinston is the Sloan Fellows Professor of Management in the Applied Economics Group at MIT Sloan and Professor of Economics in the Economics Department.Whinston was the Robert E. and Emily H. King Professor of Business Instutions in the…
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Sinan Aral
David Austin Professor of Management
Sinan Aral is a global authority on business analytics; award-winning researcher; entrepreneur, and venture capitalist who is ranked among the top 50 management scholars in the world and was rated the World’s “Top Digital Thinker” in 2021. He is the…
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Associate Dean for Business Analytics
Dimitris Bertsimas is the Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, a Professor of Operations Research, and the Associate Dean for the Master of Business Analytics at MIT. He was named Vice Provost for Open Learning in September…
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Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor
Vivek is interested in the development of new methodologies and applications for large scale dynamic optimization. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 2007 and is the Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor at MIT…
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Senior Lecturer
Renée Richardson Gosline is a Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and head of the Human-First AI group at MIT's Initiative on The Digital Economy. She is an expert on the intersection between behavioral…
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Robert G. James Career Development Associate Professor in Operations Management
Jónas Oddur Jónasson is the Robert G. James Career Development Associate Professor in Operations Management and Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He serves as an associate editor for Management…
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Nanyang Technological University Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics
Rahul Mazumder is the Nanyang Technological University Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics and an Associate Professor of Operations Research and Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Prior to joining MIT, he was an…
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John C Head III Dean (Interim), MIT Sloan School of Management
Georgia Perakis is the John C Head III Dean (Interim) of the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor of Operations Management, Operations Research & Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She has been on the faculty at MIT Sloan…
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Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Operations Management
Anne Quaadgras is the Director of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative and a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan.Her work focuses on health systems transformation, and the role of information technology in supporting that change.Prior to her doctoral…
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Hear name pronounced.Schussel Family Professor of Management Science
Hazhir Rahmandad is the Schussel Family Professor of Management Science and a Professor of System Dynamics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Hazhir's research shows how complex organizational dynamics can lead to heterogeneity in organizational…
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Senior Lecturer, Global Economics and Management
Anjali Sastry is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.She is also a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School.Sastry explores practical aspects of organizational and managerial effectiveness in settings facing complex challenges and…
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Senior Lecturer, System Dynamics
Steve Spear DBA MS MS is principal of SeeToSolve LLC, whose SaaS products support the tapping into of an enterprise’s distributed and collective intelligence, and he is author of The High Velocity Edge. As a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of…
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Associate Dean (Interim) of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Sloan
Nikolaos (Nikos) Trichakis is the J.C. Penney Professor of Management and a Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include optimization under uncertainty, data-driven optimization and…
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Eastman Kodak Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management
Roy E. Welsch is the Eastman Kodak Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management and a Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Center for Statistics and Data Science. He is the Director of…
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John D. C. Little Professor of Marketing
Juanjuan Zhang is the John D. C. Little Professor of Marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management.An expert in quantitative modeling, Zhang combines economic theory with data science to optimize various business decisions in this fast-changing…
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John S. Carroll
Hear name pronounced.Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management, Emeritus
John Carroll is the Gordon Kaufman Professor of Management, Emeritus and a Professor Post Tenure of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was also Professor of Engineering Systems until 2015 and served as Co…
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Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Zen Chu serves as Faculty Director of MIT's Hacking Medicine Initiative, and is a Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Innovation for both the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology program. Zen actively consults…
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Hear name pronounced.David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation
Kate Kellogg is the David J. McGrath Jr Professor of Management and Innovation, a Professor of Business Administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Kate's research focuses on helping knowledge workers and organizations develop and implement…
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Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies
Erin L. Kelly is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research. Kelly’s research has been published in many top…
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T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Management
Eric von Hippel is the T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Management and a Professor of Management of Innovation and Engineering Systems at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research discovers and explores patterns in the sources of innovation…
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