An upfront fee for taking Medicaid patients could shorten stays
Breakthrough technologies are years off for aviation, but incremental improvements are available
Banks close neighborhood outlets and raise prices for branch-delivered services
Less diligent as shoppers, such buyers help drive up home prices
Getting the mix right is the goal of a Medicare pilot, which itself could use substantial improvement
Applying the behavioral concept of “place attachment” to the logistics of battling climate change
Power companies haven’t maximized the benefits of customers agreeing to short-term electricity interruptions
Seeing global crises as ongoing, rather than episodic, and applying modern supply-chain management
Customer loyalty, barriers to entry and other factors at play
Uninsured and insured both receive help; benefits are temporary
Behavior, other factors influence which improvements are effective
A method that establishes a range of needs — and then tightens the range — works better
Lenders and private-party sellers constrain a seeming windfall
Equal incentives perceived differently and can affect norms
Airbnb hosts seem to prosper more than Uber drivers
A model for staffing O.R.s incorporates the costs of worker dissatisfaction and idle time