Anish Agarwal

Aug 24, 2024 | medium.com | Anish Agarwal

The single most important activity for senior leadership in a company is making good decisions (often with limited information on a strict deadline). This is where the people getting elevated from middle management struggle the most. What made them good managers was executing someone else’s plan but when tasked with making decisions themselves, managers often struggle with decision-making. Even those who are quick to decide often feel guilty when things don’t go as planned.

May 7, 2024 | fmearticles.com | Anish Agarwal

Did you read the product description of your favorite bedroom furniture but found yourself completely confused about what is the best type of wood for bedroom furniture? There are virtually unlimited types of wood out there, so I don’t blame you one bit. In fact, I used to find myself absolutely lost when I looked at the description of fancy furniture and read fancy names of wood—names that flew right past me.

Dec 26, 2023 | arxiv.org | Zhiwei Steven |Keegan Harris |Anish Agarwal |Vasilis Syrgkanis

[Submitted on 26 Dec 2023 ( v1 ), last revised 13 Feb 2024 (this version, v2)] Title:Incentive-Aware Synthetic Control: Accurate Counterfactual Estimation via Incentivized Exploration Download a PDF of the paper titled Incentive-Aware Synthetic Control: Accurate Counterfactual Estimation via Incentivized Exploration, by Daniel Ngo and 4 other authors Download PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We consider the setting of synthetic control methods (SCMs), a canonical approach used to estimate the...

Feb 21, 2023 | ldi.upenn.edu | Anish Agarwal

Droves of nurses and physicians are leaving the bedside as the health care workforce continues to face significant levels of burnout. One factor behind this trend is clinician concern about safety when caring for patients. An unfortunate fact is that many emergency nurses and physicians report experiencing physical, verbal, and sexual abuse while at work.