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About the Capstone Program  Do you have a current or upcoming project within your organization that would benefit from the critical thinking and analytical skills of next year’s NYU Wagner graduates? Does your project fall within one of these areas? Advocacy and Political Action …
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Bringing winners and losers into the classroomStudents know that economic change in the real world creates both winners and losers. Economic research today is also very engaged with inequality and its relationship to efficiency and productivity. Introductory economics courses, however, usually focus …
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Statistical Analysis for Public and Nonprofit ManagersThis is a comprehensive, clearly written guide to the use of statistical analysis in the management of not-for-profit organizations. The book emphasizes statistical models that use more than one variable and is unique in presenting multivariate statistics …
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A Philanthropy Tackles Growth In Health Costs At The State LevelSlowing the rate of growth of health spending is as critical   a goal at the state level as it is at the national level. Philanthropy   can hardly address this issue alone, yet it has an obligation   to take on big and seemingly intractable problems. The …
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Financing Pro-poor Governance in AfricaDefines key lessons on financing pro-poor governance based on cases from Latin America, Asia and Africa (Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya and Uganda). The starting point for pro-poor fiscal decentralisation is that its major goals should be improved governance …
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Crowded HouseThe extraordinary growth in the stock market over the past several years has significantly increased wealth in the US household sector. The Flow of Funds Accounts data indicate that in the second quarter of 1998 corporate equity holdings in the household …
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Alexander NiyazovDr. Niyazov is currently the Senior Director, Global Value and Evidence, Pipeline Oncology Team Lead at Pfizer Oncology. In this role, he oversees a team of outcomes researchers who generate evidence to demonstrate the value proposition of early-stage …
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Building Communities of Practice for Better Planning: Steps Forward for Municipal Planning Offices in GuatemalaIn order to include local input in the national infrastructure development plan, the Guatemalan Government created a decentralized public investment program known as the Sistema Nacional de Inversiones Publicas (SNIP). A crucial part of this program are …
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Building Communities of Practice for Better Planning: Steps Forward for Municipal Planning Offices in GuatemalaIn order to include local input in the national infrastructure development plan, the Guatemalan Government created a decentralized public investment program known as the Sistema Nacional de Inversiones Publicas (SNIP). A crucial part of this program are …
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Strategies to Support CDP Growth and SustainabilityThe Community Development Project (CDP) of the Urban Justice Center (UJC) is a local intermediary that provides litigation, research and policy, and technical and legal assistance to community-based organizations from low-income communities in New York …
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Length of Stay and Early Mobilization of ICU patientsAs part of the mission to deliver the highest quality, safest and most compassionate care, the New York Presbyterian HERCULES or Hospital Efficiency, Revenue Cycle, Clinical Utilization, Length of Stay (LOS), and Enhanced Sourcing initiative has …
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Operational and Cost Analysis for a New Educational ModelThe administration of Middle School 223 seeks to transform the school into a com­bination middle and high school. The newly­formed nonprofit organization Arete Education will offer after­school program­ming to all MS/HS 223's students, extend­ing the …
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Calvin HadleyCAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES?  I’m the incoming assistant provost for academic partnerships and student engagement at Howard University, which is a historically black university. This new role is a transition from my earlier …
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The Realities of Managing Complex Health Systems The Realities of Managing Complex Health Systems course is designed to provide students with an up close perspective of how large health systems operate. Using real life case studies, expert insight, and relevant reading materials the course will outline …
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Software Implementation Plan to Manage Charge Description MasterContinuum Health Partners, a nonprofit hospital system in New York City, recently purchased Craneware software to manage its mainframe charge description master (CDM). A primary goal of Continuum is to utilize the Craneware software for continual …
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Software Implementation Plan to Manage Charge Description MasterContinuum Health Partners, a nonprofit hospital system in New York City, recently purchased Craneware software to manage its mainframe charge description master (CDM). A primary goal of Continuum is to utilize the Craneware software for continual …
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Evaluation of the Root Cause Analysis Process at the VANYHHSThe VA New York Harbor Healthcare System (VANYHHS) charged the Capstone team with the review of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) output measurements, through the Office of Patient Safety. It is the goal of the Office of Patient Safety to effectively use RCA …
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What’s the Worst That Can Happen? Social Media Protocols and PoliciesTimely updates, increased citizen engagement, and more effective marketing are just a few of the reasons transportation agencies have already started to adopt social media networking tools.  Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media  …
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Financial Access Initiative (FAI) Launches Research Study to Shed Light on Hidden Lives of Small FirmsThe Financial Access Initiative (FAI) , together with The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth announced the launch of The Small Firm Diaries , a global research initiative that will provide unprecedented insight into the financial lives of small …
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Mount Vernon Economic Development StrategyThe City of Mount Vernon, NY, works to facilitate services, activities, and projects related to enhancing the physical, social, and economic life of the city. The City of Mount Vernon engaged the Capstone team to create an economic development strategy …
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Namon FreemanCAN YOU TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOUR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES?  I’m a manager at Bloomberg Associates (BA), a pro bono consulting firm that works with cities across the globe. I work as part of the sustainability team and lead all of our engagements related to …
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Fernando HenaoWHY DID YOU CHOOSE WAGNER FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL? I was looking for a graduate school that provided me with skills, tools and connections in order to continue my career working in the government, especially in areas related to rural development. Wagner …
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Health Policy - PhDThis field concerns the research that informs health policy. It deals both with the substantive findings of that research, and with the methodological issues that researchers face. The field encompasses a broad set of activities and issues pertaining to …
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