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Investigations Done Right and Wrong: Government by Investigation, 1945-2012… odds that their work will pay off in improved government performance and more effective public policy. …
Faculty Profile
Olivia CortelliniOlivia Cortellini (she/her) is an Adjunct Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She also serves as the Senior Data and Reporting Analyst at the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), a non-profit educational …
News
City Health Dashboard Expanding to 500 More Cities… leaders the ability to view data on their cities’ performance in 26 key measures of health such as obesity and …
Capstone Projects
PO Administration and PO Business Development and MarketingThe resident has been involved in a major planning process aimed at improving ambulatory care encounters. She was responsible for conducting the patient survey and performing correlational analysis. The resident also helped lead, and collected data from, …
News
Professor Paul Light Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee Professor Paul C. Light of NYU Wagner, a nationally recognized scholar of government reform, offered testimony Aug. 5 before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the U.S. Inspector General Office and the boundaries of its access to the records of government …
Capstone Projects
Developing a Methodology for Evaluating the Effects of Areawide Rezonings in New York CityNew York City does not currently conduct a routine practice of revisiting area wide rezoning after some years have elapsed to determine whether the consequences were as expected or different from what was anticipated. The Capstone team worked with the New …
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International Development - PhD… services by poor households, fiscal decentralization, performance/outcome evaluation). …
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Analysis of Electrical Power and Oil and Gas Pipeline Failures… as an input into risk management policies to improve the performance of these systems, as well as for security and …
Capstone Projects
CULTURALLY INFORMED HUMAN RESOURCES STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE
ORGANIZATIONAL WORK CULTURE… development, which includes procedures for job design, performance appraisal, and professional development. …
Faculty Profile
Jacob Victory… Professor Victory's last position was Vice President of Performance Management Projects, focusing on implementing …
News
Why Falling Confidence in Government May Sway Voters in 2024… 2024 presidential campaign with the federal government’s performance rating in decline and the public appetite for …
Alumni In Action
Roland Persaud… are most helpful to you in your current work? I learned performance measurement and management which has been most …
Publication
Helping Without Harming: The Instructor’s Feedback Dilemma in Debriefing—A Case Study… dilemma. They must offer clear feedback on learners’ task performance without damaging their relationship with those … empathic way to help sustain good or improve suboptimal performance in the future. …
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Planning for an Uncertain Future: Can Multicriteria Analysis Support Better Decision Making in Climate Planning?The realities of climate change demand updated approaches and tools to support decision making. In this article, we examine the promise of an emerging tool, multicriteria analysis (MCA), in climate-change planning. We find that MCA has the potential to …
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Alumni Voices: Razakh Abukar Abdirahman (MPA 2019)… about obtaining data and utilizing results to illustrate performance. Once the contract ends, he plans to move into …
Publication
Did case-based payment influence surgical readmission rates in France? A retrospective studyOBJECTIVES: To determine whether implementation of a case-based payment system changed all-cause readmission rates in the 30 days following discharge after surgery, we analysed all surgical procedures performed in all hospitals in France before …
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Best Schools, Worst Schools and School Efficiency… the effect of teacher degree level on educational performance. …
Faculty Profile
Thomas D'Aunno… Accountable Care Organizations and of the organization and performance of the nation’s substance use disorder treatment …
Capstone Projects
Individual Donor Marketing PlanThe Hispanic Federation is a not-for-profit health and human services organization operating in the tri-state region. The Federation sought to identify new sources of funding and expand its current donor base in order to sustain current programs, …
Capstone Projects
Girls Gaining GroundThe Capstone team performed a qualitative evaluation of Bhavishya Alliance's Girls Gaining Ground program, a pilot program to empower adolescent girls in Maharashtra, India. The team traveled to India, where it conducted site visits in Mumbai slums and …
Publication
Managing Diversity in Civil Service: A Conceptual Framework for Public Organizations.… addressing traditional and new requirements for effective performance in public organizations. I survey the core … with a diagnosis of how diversity affects organizational performance. It continues with an analysis of the extent to …
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The French Health Care System… and coverage; and most importantly, its overall performance. …
Capstone Projects
Optimizing front-end processes: improving patient experience in ambulatory careThe NYU Langone Faculty Group Practice (FGP) provides ambulatory care through more than 140 different practices. Due to practice acquisitions and recent technological upgrades, FGP has made patient experience a top priority. FGP requested that the …
Capstone Projects
EXPANDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENTCitizens Committee for Children of New York (CCCNY) is a New York City-based nonprofit that advocates for policies that enhance the lives of young people. CCCNY enlisted a team to develop strategies to enhance its civic engagement techniques, widen the …