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Roger Brockett An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering School: FAS Dept: Engineering and Applied Sciences Contact: brockett@hrl.harvard.edu Keywords: Decision Theory Courses [Under Construction]	[http://deas.harvard.edu/faculty/profile/Roger_Brockett] Robotic Manipulation, Computer Vision, and Intelligent Machines. As high-data-rate sensing mechanisms have proliferated and the value of autonomous decision making has become more widely recognized, many sophisticated techniques have been applied to process data within feedback loops. As a result, interest in estimation and control algorithms suitable for time-critical applications has grown. Professor Brockett's research is concerned with the development of prototype modules and general principles that can be used to design such systems and to predict how they will interact with their environment. Robots are one example of computer-controlled machines in which motion control is a central issue. Others include surveillance vehicles, numerically controlled machine tools, autonomous loaders, repair vehicles, etc. Many recent efforts to permit these systems to react to various sensory data in real time incorporate new computational paradigms, such as neural networks and adaptive arrays. In recent work, Professor Brockett and his coworkers have shown how parallel analog algorithms can be used for these purposes and how several problems in combinatorial optimization can be understood in the context of control and dynamical systems. Problems of computational tractability are critical to systems that must operate in real time. An answer that cannot be computed in a fixed amount of time may be useless. To operate within these constraints, systems must reduce data as they are gathered, making use of special data structures that facilitate rapid computation. One goal of current research is the development of a device-independent language to control such systems and to model in a useful way systems that are language driven.
Drew Fudenberg Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics School: FAS Dept: Economics Contact: dfudenberg@harvard.edu Keywords: Game theory, microeconomic theory, learning in games, reputation and repeated play, theoretical industrial organization Courses [Under Construction]	[no bio]
Daniel Gilbert Professor School: FAS Dept: Psychology Contact: gilbert@wjh.harvard.edu Keywords: Affective Forecasting Courses [Under Construction]	Daniel Gilbert is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His experimental research on “affective forecasting” examines the mistakes people make when they try to predict their emotional reactions to future events. Professor Gilbert has received research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Philosophical Society, and teaching awards from Phi Beta Kappa. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, a former Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the winner of the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. He is the author and editor of numerous scientific articles, chapters, and books, as well as several works of science fiction. But his proudest accomplishment is being listed between Glenn Campbell and Dizzie Gillespie on the list of “World’s Most Famous High-School Drop-outs” (www.education-reform.net/dropouts2.htm).
Daniel Gilbert Professor of Psychology School: FAS Dept: Psychology Contact: gilbert@wjh.harvard.edu Keywords: how and how well people predict their emotional reactions to future events Courses [Under Construction]
Jerry Green John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics School: FAS Dept: Economics Contact: jgreen@hbs.edu Keywords: Public Decision Making Courses [Under Construction]	[from KSG website] Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics. He chaired the Economics Department from 1984 to 1987, and served as Provost of the University from 1992 to 1994. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is an Oversees Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Beth Israel Hospital of Boston where he serves on the budget and finance committee and chairs the committee on conflict of interest policy. Green is known for his work on the theories of incentives, rational expectations, and behavior under uncertainty. He has contributed to a number of areas in applied economics, including tax policy, finance, health economics, higher education, and patent policy. He is the author of Incentives in Public Decision Making (with Jean-Jacques Laf font, 1978), Microeconomic Theory (with Andreu Mas-Colell and Michael Whinston, 1995) and over eighty scientific articles.
David Laibson Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy School: FAS Dept: Economics Contact: dlaibson@harvard.edu Keywords: Behavioral economics Courses [Under Construction]	http://ideas.repec.org/e/pla164.html
Carey K Morewedge School: FAS Dept: Psychology Contact: morewedg@fas.harvard.edu Keywords: Emotion and Decision-Making Courses [Under Construction]	Carey Morewedge is a graduate student in the PhD program in Social Psychology at Harvard University. His experimental psychological research centers around two topics. One is decision-making and emotion. Specifically, how do cognitive and affective biases affect one's evaluation of past, present, and future decisions in everyday life? The second is agent perception: what causes humans to infer that things possess mental or psychological states? Carey received his B.A in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2000.
Carl Morris Professor School: FAS Dept: Statistics Contact: morris@stat.harvard.edu Keywords: Hierarchical Modeling and Empirical Bayes Methods Courses [Under Construction]	[from Harvard Magazine article http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050221.html] Carl N. Morris, professor of statistics and of health care policy, might be better known for his work in hospital-quality evaluation, but he has spent countless hours assessing the squeeze play and sacrifice bunt with pages of numbers that would leave most fans downright vertiginous. It's hard to imagine Morris getting more worked up over universal healthcare than he does when his beloved Red Sox squelch a rally with a misguided attempt to steal second base. [from Statistics department webpage] During his career, Dr. Morris has sought out interdisciplinary and novel applications that implement and challenge new statistical theory. His research in the interface of statistical theory and scientific application has been aided by appointments in departments of statistics, mathematics, economics, health policy, and of behavioral sciences. Dr. Morris is best known for his contributions to the theory of hierarchical models and of empirical Bayes methods with applications to many fields, particularly including health care policy. Over the years this work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Agency for Health Care Policy Research, the Veterans Administration, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. These grants also have supported his continuing work on natural exponential families with quadratic variance functions (NEF-QVF), which was recognized as a breakthrough (Volume III on Breakthrough in Statistics, Springer, 1997). Hierarchical modeling applications of particular continuing relevance in health services research concern evaluating the quality of medical units. With collaborators and students at Harvard, and with Veterans Affairs researchers involved in profiling VA hospitals, Dr. Morris continues this research on mental and physical health and on medical profiling. This work builds on his Agency for Health Care Policy Research grant that identified important medical and health services applications of hierarchical models. Earlier work in health policy research spanned medical profiling, experimental design, and public policy experiments. He is known for his earlier experimental design work in the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and in particular for the Finite Selection Model that he developed for creating optimally balanced experiments in the HIE. Dr. Morris has also done pioneering work in the theory of statistics as applied to sports and competition, especially in baseball and tennis.
Peter Rogers Gordon McKay Professor School: FAS Dept: DEAS Contact: rogers@deas.harvard.edu Keywords: Optimization, stochashtic decisons, simulations Courses [Under Construction]	the consequences of population on natural resources development conflict resolution in international river basins improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment, with emphasis on the use of analytic optimizing methods to incorporate both the natural phenomena and the engineering controls the impacts of global change on water resources, and the development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development. He has carried out extensive field and model studies on population, water and energy resources, and environmental problems in Costa Rica, Pakistan, India, China, the Philippines, Bangladesh and, to a lesser extent, in 25 other countries. His most recent work has focused on the relationship between Chinese electric power developments and their impact on global warming.
Peter Rogers Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City and Regional Planning School: FAS Dept: Engineering and Applied Sciences Contact: rogers@deas.harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	Peter Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning at Harvard University. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership. Professor Rogers is the recipient of Guggenheim and Twentieth Century Fellowships. His research interests include: the consequences of population on natural resources development, conflict resolution in international river basins, improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment, with emphasis on the use of analytic optimizing methods to incorporate both the natural phenomena and the engineering controls, the impacts of global change on water resources, and the development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development.
Alvin Roth George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration School: FAS Dept: Department of Economics Contact: aroth@hbs.edu Keywords: auctions, electronic commerce, experimental economics, game theory, market design Courses [Under Construction]	Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and market design. The best known of the markets he has designed (or, in this case, redesigned) is the National Resident Matching Program, through which approximately twenty thousand doctors a year find their first employment as residents at American hospitals. He advised on the design of the high school matching system used in New York City to match approximately ninety thousand students to high schools each year, starting with students entering high school in the Fall of 2004. He is one of the founders and designers of the New England Program for Kidney Exchange, for incompatible patient-donor pairs. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous scientific awards. He received his Ph.D at Stanford University, and came to Harvard from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the Andrew Mellon Professor of Economics. Courses taught: Fall 2004 course in Experimental Economics, Spring 2004 Market Design course with Estelle Cantillon.
Don Rubin John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics & Chairman School: FAS Dept: Statistics Contact: rubin@stat.harvard.edu Keywords: Causal inference in experiments and observational studies, inference in sample surveys with nonresponse and in missing data problems, application of Bayesian and empirical Bayesian techniques, and developing and applying statistical models to data in a va Courses [Under Construction]
Michael Schwartz School: FAS Dept: Economics Contact: mschwarz@arrow.fas.harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]
Max Bazerman Jesse Isador Straus Professor School: HBS Dept: Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Contact: mbazerman@hbs.edu Keywords: Judgment, biases, negotiations, predictable surprises Courses [Under Construction]	Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Max H. Bazerman (B.S.E., University of Pennsylvania; M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University) was on the faculty of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University for 15 years. He was named the J.L. Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Dispute Resolution and Organizations in 1989, and in 1991, became the J. Jay Gerber Distinguished Professor. From 1998-2000, he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Visiting Professor of Business Administration and Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, Harvard University. He accepted a permanent position at the Harvard Business School in 2000. He is also formally affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, the Psychology Department, and the Program on Negotiation. During 1989-90, he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He was the founder and director of the Kellogg Environmental Research Center, and is on the board of a number of organizations. Professor Bazerman's research focuses on decision making, negotiation, creating joint gains in society, and the natural environment. He is the author or co-author of over 150 research articles and chapters, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven books, including Predictable Surprises (in press, Harvard Business School Press, with Michael Watkins), You Can't Enlarge the Pie: The Psychology of Ineffective Government (2001, Basic Books, with J. Baron and K. Shonk), Smart Money Decisions (1999, Wiley), Judgment in Managerial Decision Making (2002, Wiley, now in its fifth edition), Cognition and Rationality in Negotiation(1991, Free Press, with M. Neale), and Negotiating Rationally (1992, Free Press, with M. Neale). He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Management and Governance, The Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and the International Journal of Conflict Management, and is a member of the international advisory board of the Negotiation Journal. He was the 1992 'Teacher of the Year' by the Executive Masters Program of the Kellogg School. Max was profiled by The Organization Frontier in 1993 as the leading management expert on the topics of negotiation and decision making. In 2002, he has been named one of the top 25 authors, speakers, and teachers of management by Executive Excellence. His former doctoral students have accepted positions at leading business schools throughout the United States, including the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, the Fuqua School at Duke University, the Johnson School at Cornell University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Columbia, and the Harvard Business School. In 2003, Max received the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
David Bell Professor School: HBS Dept: Marketing Contact: dbell@hbs.edu Keywords: Utility, Risk, Multiple Objectives Courses [Under Construction]	For many years David was in the Managerial Economics area at Harvard Business School, heading the core MBA course and teaching second-year courses such as Risk Management and Agribusiness Decision Models. With Arthur Schleifer Jr., David has produced four books in a series called Managerial Decision Analysis for Course Technology Inc. The books are Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Data Analysis, Regression and Forecasting, Risk Management, and Decision Making Under Certainty. His research has centered mostly on utility functions and models of risk versus return. His best-known papers are concerned with the incorporation of psychological aspects of risk taking, such as regret and disappointment, into formal decision making systems. The Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS awarded him the Ramsey Medal in 2001.
David Bell George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business School: HBS Dept: Marketing Contact: dbell@hbs.edu Keywords: consumer psychology, decision-making, auctions, behavioral finance, decision support Courses [Under Construction]	David E. Bell is the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business at Harvard Business School and chairs the School's Marketing Department. He currently teaches retailing in the School's MBA elective curriculum and marketing in the School's PMD executive program. He chairs two executive programs: the Program for Management Development (PMD) and the Agribusiness Senior Managers' Program. In retailing, David is developing an economic framework for examining retail issues such as the interaction of store location with pricing strategy, and inventory policies. David has a particular interest in direct marketing and loyalty programs. Along with his co-author, Walter J. Salmon, David has written two books on retailing, Strategic Retail Management and Introduction to Retailing, both available from South-Western Publishing Company. For many years David was in the Managerial Economics area at Harvard Business School, heading the core MBA course and teaching second-year courses such as Risk Management and Agribusiness Decision Models. With Arthur Schleifer Jr., David has produced four books in a series called Managerial Decision Analysis for Course Technology Inc. The books are Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Data Analysis, Regression and Forecasting, Risk Management and Decision Making Under Certainty. His research in this area has centered mostly around the analysis of risk. Most recently he has published a series of papers dealing with the integration of economic and financial theories of risk. His best-known papers are concerned with the incorporation of psychological aspects of risk taking, such as regret and disappointment, into formal decision making systems. He was recently awarded the 2001 Ramsey Medal by the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS. David received a BA from Merton College, Oxford and a PhD from MIT. He lives in Belmont, MA with his wife and three children.
John Gourville Associate Professor School: HBS Dept: Marketing Contact: jgourville@hbs.edu Keywords: consumer decision making Courses [Under Construction]	JOHN T. GOURVILLE, Associate Professor of Business Administration, is a member of the Marketing Unit faculty, where he currently teaches ?The Marketing of Innovations? in the MBA elective curriculum and a consumer behavior course in the doctoral program. He also serves as the faculty chair for another Executive Education program, ?Marketing Innovative Technologies.? Professor Gourville's research focuses on consumer decision making, where he is an expert on the role of pricing in product adoption and the consumer buying process. His research has appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Letters and the Harvard Business Review. In addition, he has written over two dozen HBS cases and notes focusing on issues of pricing, product adoption, and the marketing of innovative technologies, many of which investigate the launch of new products in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.
Anna Scherbina Assistant Professor School: HBS Dept: Finance Contact: ascherbina@hbs.edu Keywords: asset pricing, behavioral finance, market efficiency, asset management Courses [Under Construction]	Anna Scherbina has been an assistant professor in the finance area of the Harvard Business School since July 2002. She currently teaches the first part of the required finance course. Her research investigates how market imperfections affect stock prices and whether stock analysts' incentives translate into pricing inefficiencies. Her research appeared in the Journal of Finance and Quarterly Review, and has described in Smart Money Magazine and The Financial Times. Professor Scherbina received a Ph.D. in finance from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Before beginning her doctoral studies, she was a research assistant at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in divisions of Research and Statistics and International Finance.
James Sebenius Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration, Director of the Negotiation Roundtable School: HBS Dept: Contact: jsebenius@hbs.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	[from Program on Negotiation Website] Professor Sebenius specializes in analyzing and advising on complex negotiations, including the most effective ways to generate and sustain cooperation among a corporation's many stakeholders. Using concepts drawn from negotiation analysis, he seeks to discover how to build and sustain winning coalitions and deal successfully with would-be blocking coalitions through the processes of coalition-building and coalition-breaking, in particular, by sequencing choices. Other current research interests include negotiating the spirit as well as the letter of the deal (with Ron Fortgang and David Lax), cross-border negotiations, deal-design (with David Lax), large project negotiations, and a new "3-D approach" to negotiation more generally (with David Lax). Professor Sebenius is also attempting (with Jay O. Light, and drawing on related work by Stuart C. Gilson and William A. Sahlman) to tailor the concepts of deal-making and deal-structuring to particular characteristics of financial and international business transactions.
Luc Wathieu Associate Professor School: HBS Dept: Marketing Faculty Contact: lwathieu@hbs.edu Keywords: consumer behavior, decision-making, marketing, game theory Courses [Under Construction]	Luc Wathieu is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. He developed and teaches Understanding Customers, an innovative second-year MBA elective on marketing research and the discovery of customer insights. He also teaches Issues and Research in Marketing, a doctoral-level course, and is a faculty on the Marketing Unit's flagship executive education program, Strategic Marketing Management. Wathieu's research and case studies focus on how firms can defeat commoditization by empowering consumers with control tools and a greater sense of purpose in consumption. His articles appear in leading journals such as Management Science, Marketing Science, and Journal of Consumer Research. Wathieu studied Economics at the University of Namur (FUNDP) in Belgium and obtained his Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD. Prior to joining Harvard, he was on the Faculty of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has consulted or taught internationally for American Express, DaimlerChrysler, Disney, Goodyear, Moevenpick, and others. He is a member of the American Marketing Association, INFORMS, the Econometric Society, and the American Economic Association, and a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Research in Marketing and of Recherche et Applications en Marketing.
John Evans Senior Lecturer on Environmental Science School: HSPH Dept: Environmental Health Contact: jevans@hsph.harvard.edu Keywords: Environmental Consequences of the Iraqi Aggression in Kuwait, Health Exposure and Risk Assessment for Air Pollution in Mexico City Courses [Under Construction]	Dr. Evans' research has focused on risk assessment, uncertainty analysis, and decision making in environmental health. One challenge for risk assessment has been to characterize the degree of uncertainty in the estimates of health risks due to environmental exposures. Quantitative information about uncertainty is needed by decision makers responsible for determining how much to spend to control environmental exposures and by scientists responsible for prioritizing research efforts. Much of Dr. Evans' work has involved the development and application of methods for characterization of uncertainty in estimates of exposures to and risks from contaminants in the environment. A second challenge for risk assessment has been to develop simple and transparent approaches for estimating population exposure to air pollutants. Dr. Evans has pioneered methods for addressing this problem using the concept of exposure efficiency or intake fraction. A challenge for environmental decision making has been to help decision makers know when they have enough information to make control decisions and when they should wait for further information. Dr. Evans has demonstrated how the decision analytic approach for estimating the value of information can be used to address this issue in support of environmental decisions. Currently, Dr. Evans is directing a program of study intended to assess and evaluate the public health impacts of Iraq's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait. The study uses the methods of epidemiology and risk assessment to characterize the health impacts of mine and ordnance accidents, smoke from the oil well fires, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the marine and terrestrial oil spills, and depleted uranium from spent munitions.
Sue Goldie Professor of Health Decision Science School: HSPH Dept: Health Policy and Management Contact: sgoldie@hsph.harvard.edu Keywords: Decision Analysis, Medical Decision Making Courses [Under Construction]	With expertise in decision analytic methods, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and technology evaluation her research focuses on reproductive health and communicable diseases of global With expertise in decision analytic methods, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and technology evaluation her research focuses on reproductive health and communicable diseases of global With expertise in decision analytic methods, mathematical With expertise in decision analytic methods, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and technology evaluation her research focuses on reproductive health and communicable diseases of global modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and technology evaluation her research focuses on reproductive health and communicable diseases of global With expertise in decision analytic methods, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and technology evaluation her research focuses on reproductive health and communicable diseases of global With expertise in decision analytic methods, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and technology evaluation her research focuses on reproductive health and communicable diseases of global With expertise in decision analytic methods, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and technology evaluation her research focuses on reproductive health and communicable diseases of global With expertise in decision analytic methods, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis and technology evaluation her research
James Hammitt Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences School: HSPH Dept: HPM Contact: jkh@hsph.harvard.edu Keywords: Benefit-Cost Analysis Courses [Under Construction]	Professor Hammitt's research concerns the development and application of quantitative methods—including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis, game theory, and mathematical modeling—to health and environmental policy. Current topics include the management of long-term environmental issues with important scientific uncertainties, such as global climate change and stratospheric-ozone depletion, the evaluation of ancillary benefits and countervailing risks associated with risk-control measures, and the characterization of social preferences over health and environmental risks using revealed-preference, contingent-valuation, and health-utility methods.
Joseph Harrington Professor of Environmental Health Engineering School: HSPH Dept: Environmental Health / Population International Health Contact: harringt@fas.harvard.edu Keywords: Optimization Courses [Under Construction]	[from HSPH faculty web page] We have been using optimization techniques such as linear and mixed-integer programming to generate alternative scheme for natural resource development. Emphasis is placed on not always looking for "globally optimal" solutions, in the mathematical sense, because such goals tend to imply the existence of a single, omniscient, all-powerful decision-maker. Actual situations involve multiple parties, uncertainties in understanding of natural phenomena and parameter values, as well as other exigencies. "Nearly optimal" solutions are generated which are subsequently subjected to a post-optimization accounting of their characteristics. Usually, consideration of the distribution of benefits and costs, financing implications, measures of equity and implementability, robustness in the face of uncertainties, and others may lead to selection of plans other than those apparently "best." We are studying the implications of several tropical diseases in water resource management, explicitly incorporating malaria and schistosomiasis into models of the Senegal River Basin. A retrospective study using the hydrological, engineering, and economic data available in the 1970s has shown that the "nearly optimal" methodology could have led to project selection and operation with similar economic projections, but substantially different public health implications.
Karen Kuntz Associate Professor of Health Decision Science School: HSPH Dept: Health Policy and Management / Biostatistics Contact: kmk@hsph.harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	Karen M. Kuntz, Sc.D., is Associate Professor of Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and is based at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. Her research focuses on the methodology and application of decision and cost-effectiveness analysis in the evaluation of medical technologies. Applied projects include the development of a policy model for the evaluation of cancer prevention and treatment strategies, particularly those for colorectal cancer. Methodological interests include the evaluation of potential biases that can occur in disease modeling. Dr. Kuntz received her masters and doctorate, both in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Jonathan Levy Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Risk Assessment School: HSPH Dept: Environmental Health Contact: jilevy@hsph.harvard.edu Keywords: Risk assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, benefit-cost analysis, with applications to air pollution exposures and health risks Courses [Under Construction]	Jonathan Levy, Sc.D., is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Risk Assessment in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health. His research centers on developing models to quantitatively assess the environmental and health impacts of air pollution from local to national scales, with a focus on urban settings. This involves the evaluation of exposure using a combination of atmospheric dispersion modeling, predictive statistical models, and field measurements. Health risks are quantified through epidemiological investigations, interpretation of past epidemiological studies, and supporting physiological and toxicological evidence. Current research relevant to decision sciences includes an evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of interventions in the indoor environment for improving the health and well-being of asthmatic children in public housing; a study to develop better exposure and health risk estimates for emissions from motor vehicles; and a study to develop quantitative measures of environmental equity suitable for air pollution risk assessment and benefit-cost analysis. Professor Levy holds an AB in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Environmental Science and Risk Management, both from Harvard.
Peter Neumann Adjunct Professor School: HSPH Dept: Health Policy and Management Contact: pneumann@hsph.harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	Peter J. Neumann, Sc.D., is Associate Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. His research focuses on the role of cost-effectiveness analysis in health care decision making. He has conducted numerous economic evaluations of medical technologies, including evaluations of treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease. He also directs a project to develop a comprehensive registry of cost-effectiveness analyses in health care. Dr. Neumann has contributed to the literature on the use of willingness to pay and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) in valuing health benefits. His other research has focused on the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of health economic information, and the role of clinical and economic evidence in informing public and private sector health care decisions, including those made by the Medicare program. He has published widely in the medical literature, and is the author of Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Improve Health Care (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is a contributing editor of Health Affairs and member of the editorial board of Value in Health. Dr. Neumann is President-elect of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), and a trustee of the Society for Medical Decision Making. He has also held various policy positions in Washington, including Special Assistant to the Administrator at the Health Care Financing Administration. He received his doctorate in health policy and management from the Harvard University.
Milton Weinstein Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Policy and Management School: HSPH Dept: Health Policy and Management Contact: mcw@hsph.harvard.edu Keywords: QALY, Cost-effectiveness Analysis, Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis Courses [Under Construction]	Dr. Weinstein, the Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Policy and Management and Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, is an internationally-known expert on the methods of cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. He is engaged in numerous research projects concerned broadly with issues of resource allocation and decision making in health policy. His research generally uses the methodologies of decision analysis, mathematical modeling, and cost-effectiveness analysis to address resource allocation decisions at the clinical, institutional, and societal levels. He directs the Program on Economic Evaluation of Medical Technology, a unit in the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. He is also a member of the Center for Outcomes and Policy Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he is engaged in research on cost-effectiveness of cancer therapies, and a member of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. He is principal investigator of the Cancer Prevention Policy Modeling Project, in which a computer simulation model is being developed to evaluate the health and economic consequences of alternative policies for the prevention, early detection, and treatment of colorectal and breast cancer. He co-directed a similar modeling effort in coronary heart disease, where the model has been used to estimate the cost-effectiveness of national guidelines for serum cholesterol reduction; to evaluate the costs and consequences of alternative drug therapies for hypertension; to predict changes in life expectancy achievable by prevention of coronary heart disease; and to assess the relative contributions of prevention and treatment in the decline of coronary heart disease mortality. Dr. Weinstein is also involved in numerous collaborative cost-effectiveness studies including a study of outcomes, patient preferences, and costs associated with chemotherapy for advanced lung cancer; on the cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS therapies; and on the use of new technologies of testing for antiretroviral resistance to drugs. His methodologic research concerns the adaptation and use of tradeoffs between current and future health outcomes and tradeoffs between quantity and quality of life. Dr. Weinstein was co-chairman of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine and is a member of the Institute of Medicine and its Committee on Priorities for New Vaccine Development.
William Hogan Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Public Policy and Administration School: KSG Dept: Contact: william_hogan@harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	Professor Hogan is Research Director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG), which is exploring the issues involved in the transition to a more competitive electricity market. He is Director of The Repsol YPF - Harvard Kennedy School Fellows Program for energy policy research. In addition, he serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and the Ph.D. Program in Political Economy and Government at the Kennedy School of Government; he has also served as Chair of the Public Policy Program and as Director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center. Professor Hogan has been actively engaged in the design and improvement of competitive electricity markets in many regions of the United States, as well as around the world, from England to Australia. His activities include designing the market structures and market rules by which regional transmission organizations, in various forms, coordinate bid-based markets for energy, ancillary services, and financial transmission rights. This research is also part of the larger activities of the Environment and Natural Resources Policy Program [http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/environment/index.htm] (See also the Environmental Economics Program and the Center for Business and Government.) He was a member of the faculty of Stanford University where he founded the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF), and is a Past President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). He received his undergraduate degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and his Ph.D. from UCLA.
Mathias Risse Associate Professor School: KSG Dept: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Contact: mathias_risse@harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	Mathias Risse is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Philosophy. He works mostly in social and political philosophy and in ethics. His primary research areas are contemporary political philosophy (in particular questions of international justice, distributive justice, and property) and decision theory (in particular, rationality and fairness in group decision making, an area sometimes called analytical social philosophy.) His articles have appeared in journals such as Ethics; Philosophy and Public Affairs; Nous; the Journal of Political Philosophy; and Social Choice and Welfare. Risse studied philosophy, mathematics, and mathematical economics at the University of Bielefeld, the University of Pittsburgh, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Princeton University. He received his BA, BS and MS in mathematics from Bielefeld, and his MA and PhD in philosophy from Princeton. Before coming to Harvard he taught in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics at Yale.
Richard Zeckhauser Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy School: KSG Dept: Contact: richard_zeckhauser@harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	Richard J. Zeckhauser is the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Zeckhauser pursues a mix of conceptual and applied research. The primary challenge facing society, he believes, is to allocate resources in accordance with the preferences of the citizenry. Much of his conceptual work examines possibilities for democratic, decentralized, allocation procedures. His ongoing policy investigations explore ways to promote the health of human beings, to help labor and financial markets operate more efficiently, and to foster informed and appropriate choices by individuals and government agencies. Zeckhauser's current major research addresses the performance of institutions confronted with inadequate commitment capabilities, incomplete information flow and human participants who fail to behave in accordance with models of rationality (for example,by engaging in herd behavior). Financial markets and health risks are the subjects of his major empirical investigations.
Robert Mnookin Samuel Williston Professor of Law; Director, Harvard Negotiation Research Project; Chair, Steering Committee, Program on Negotiation School: LAW Dept: Contact: mnookin@law.harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	[http://www.pon.harvard.edu/about/scommittee/rmnookin.php3] Recognized as one of the outstanding legal scholars in the field of conflict resolution, Professor Mnookin has applied an interdisciplinarys approach to a wide range of issues ranging from families and children to multi-national corporations. He currently teaches three courses related to mediation and negotiation at Harvard Law School. A renowned teacher and lecturer, Professor Mnookin has also taught numerous workshops for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms throughout the world and trained many executives and professionals in negotiation and mediation skills.
Avishalom Tor School: LAW Dept: Contact: tor1@law.harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]
Kip Viscusi Cogan Professor of Law and Economics; Director, Program on Empirical Legal Studies School: LAW Dept: Contact: kip@law.harvard.edu Keywords: Value of risks to health, Risk and Environmental Regulation Courses [Under Construction]	W. Kip Viscusi is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics and Director of the Program on Empirical Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. Professor Viscusi received his A.B. degree in economics summa cum laude from Harvard, where he also received his A.M. in economics, M.P.P. in public policy, and Ph.D. in economics. He received awards for best undergraduate thesis and best doctoral dissertation in economics at Harvard. Viscusi also received the Best Article of the Year Award from the Western Economic Association in 1988 and from the Royal Economic Society in 1999. His books were awarded the Kulp-Wright Award for Outstanding Book on Risk and Insurance from the American Risk & Insurance Association in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 2000, which also awarded him the Mehr Article Award in 1999. Economic Inquiry named Professor Viscusi the second most productive economist based on articles published over the past decade in major economics journals. The Journal of Risk and Insurance ranked him as the leading contributor to the risk and insurance literature in 1998, and in 2003 Health Economics ranked him as the leading contributor to the health economics literature. He was also ranked by the Journal of the European Economic Association in 2003 as number seven among economists in the world based on journal articles published, 1990-2000, and number twenty-five based on citations in journal articles over that period. Professor Viscusi's research focuses primarily on individual and societal responses to risk and uncertainty. He has published over 20 books and 240 articles, most of which deal with different aspects of health and safety risks. Viscusi’s honorary Arne Ryde lectures given at Lund University, Sweden were recently published as Rational Risk Policy (Oxford: Clarendon-Oxford University Press, 1998). He has also written, with John Vernon and Joseph Harrington, the third edition of Economics of Regulation and Antitrust (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), which is the leading textbook in the field and has been adopted at over 100 universities. His most recent book is Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). Viscusi’s estimates of the value of risks to life and health are currently used throughout the Federal government. The Washington Post designated him the "Reagan Administration's expert on the value of life." He has consulted to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the U.S. Department of Justice on issues pertaining to the valuation of life and health. Professor Viscusi also served on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for seven years.
Amartya Sen Thomas W. Lamont University Professor; Adjunct Professor of Population and International Health in the Faculty of Public Health; Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows School: University Professor / FAS / HSPH Dept: HSPH- Population and International Health Contact: asen@fas.harvard.edu Keywords: Courses [Under Construction]	Amartya Kumar Sen was born in India and was educated in Calcutta and Cambridge, England. He is the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. At Harvard University he is Lamont University Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Before joining Harvard in 1987, Professor Sen was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University and Fellow of All Souls College. Prior to that he taught at Cambridge University, Jadavpur University in Calcutta, Delhi University and the London School of Economics. Professor Sen's research has ranged over a number of fields in economics and philosophy, including welfare economics, social choice theory, decision theory, economic measurement, development economics and moral and political philosophy. He is past President of the American Economic Association, the International Economic Association, the Indian Economic Association, the Econometric Society, and the Development Studies Association. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Econometric Society. In 1990 Professor Sen received both the Giovanni Agnelli International Prize for his research on ethics of modern society, and the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award for his work on understanding and preventing world hunger. Professor Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on welfare economics.