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NEW YORK — Columbia Business School’s W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness announced that Mary Barra, chair and CEO of General Motors, and Ken Frazier, Merck’s executive chairman of the board, will receive its 2021 Deming Cup for Operational Excellence at a virtual ceremony on October 19.

In a new study on hospital mortality rates, Columbia Business School’s Merrill Lynch Professor of Workforce Transformation Ann P. Bartel and Associate Professor of Business Carri W. find that increasing heart attack patients’ length of stay by just one day could decrease 30-day mortality rates and save lives

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A series of research papers from Columbia Business School show how hospitals can reduce costs by examining their patient efficiency strategies

Yash Kanoria, assistant professor of Decision, Risk, and Operations at Columbia Business School, was recently awarded a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the design of matching markets.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, demand for emergency health care services is rapidly increasing, causing over-crowding and long wait-times in emergency rooms nationwide. New research from Columbia Business School shows that predictive analytics – that is, using data about ER demand to predict future demand – could help hospitals reduce wait times and improve care by diverting patients away from emergency rooms before they become overcrowded.