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:

Economics, Finance, and Behavioral Science

Ernst Rudolf Berndt

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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Mert Demirer

Mert Demirer

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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Joseph Doyle

Joseph Doyle

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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Dean Eckles

Dean Eckles

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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Robert Gibbons

Robert Gibbons

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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Danielle Li

Danielle Li

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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Tong Liu

Tong Liu

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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Andrew W. Lo

Andrew W. Lo

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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Alexey Makarin

Alexey Makarin

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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Robert C. Pozen

Robert C. Pozen

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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David G. Rand

David G. Rand

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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Catherine Tucker

Catherine Tucker

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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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Ben Vatter

Ben Vatter

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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Michael Whinston

Michael Whinston

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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Operations Research and Analytics:

Operations research and analytics

Sinan Aral

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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Dimitris Bertsimas

Dimitris Bertsimas

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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Vivek F. Farias

Vivek F. Farias

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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Renee Richardson Gosline

Renee Richardson Gosline

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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Jónas Oddur Jónasson

Jónas Oddur Jónasson

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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Rahul Mazumder

Rahul Mazumder

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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Georgia Perakis

Georgia Perakis

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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Anne Quaadgras

Anne Quaadgras

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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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Hazhir Rahmandad

Hazhir Rahmandad

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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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Anjali Sastry

Anjali Sastry

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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Steven Spear

Steven Spear

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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Nikos Trichakis

Nikos Trichakis

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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Roy E. Welsch

Roy E. Welsch

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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Juanjuan Zhang

Juanjuan Zhang

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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Work and Organization Studies:

Work and Organization Studies

John S. Carroll

John S. Carroll

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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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Zen Chu

Zen Chu

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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Kate Kellogg

Kate Kellogg

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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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Erin Kelly

Erin Kelly

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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Eric Arthur von Hippel

Eric Arthur von Hippel

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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