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Capstone Projects
United Nations Worksite Wellness ProgramsThe Capstone team was asked to create a comprehensive guide to worksite health promotion and worksite wellness that could be tailored to the needs of United Nations employees. To frame the project, the Capstone team was assigned two preliminary white …
Capstone Projects
A Study on Strengthening and Managing Organizational IntegrityThe United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services asked the Capstone team to assist in the development of a comprehensive organizational integrity framework at the United Nations. The Capstone team contributed research and analysis on how …
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Wagner Consulting Group (WCG)Mission The core belief of the Wagner Consulting Group (WCG) is that the skill sets essential to consulting are translatable and desirable to all Wagner students, regardless of industry (e.g., Nonprofit, Health, or Government). The WCG has two aims: To …
Capstone Projects
Community Participation in Urban Integration of Rio de Janeiro FavelasFunded by the Inter-American Development Bank and sponsored by the Municipalidadede Habitação of Brazil, the Favela-Bairro program aims to integrate informal shantytowns (favelas) into the city by transforming them into functioning neighborhoods. …
Capstone Projects
Community Participation in Urban Integration of Rio de Janeiro FavelasFunded by the Inter-American Development Bank and sponsored by the Municipalidadede Habitação of Brazil, the Favela-Bairro program aims to integrate informal shantytowns (favelas) into the city by transforming them into functioning neighborhoods. …
Faculty Profile
Doris ZahnerDr. Doris Zahner is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is also the Chief Academic Officer at the Council for Aid to Education (CAE), a non-profit educational assessment …
Faculty Profile
Esther MuneneEsther Imani Munene, MBA, PhD is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She has over ten years of experience in diverse healthcare settings in the U.S. and internationally. Her …
Faculty Profile
Josh GluckJosh Gluck is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is also the Vice President of Global Healthcare Technology Strategy at Pure Storage where he is responsible for …
Faculty Profile
Anna LevyAnna Levy has more than 15 years of experience as a practitioner, researcher, oral historian, and analyst of crisis and development politics, the political economy of aid, transparency and accountability, civic and political space, governance ethics, …
Capstone Projects
Entertainment-education program analysis and synthesisPCI Media Impact (PCIMI) is a nonprofit organization that uses storytelling and creative communications to empower communities worldwide and inspire positive social and environmental change. PCIMI requested a Capstone team to analyze and evaluate three …
Publication
Valuation of Physician and Ambulatory Care PracticesExplains several accounting approaches for healthcare organizations planning to acquire physician and ambulatory care practices. Acquisition arrangements; Historical cost; Constant dollar value; Replacement/economic cost; Opportunity-cost approach; Income …
Publication
On Detention and Skill: Reflections on Immigrant Incarceration, Bodying Practices, and the Definition of SkillThe use of detention as a tool of immigrant enforcement has grown in the United States and around the world. In this article, I examine the practices used to structure the physical detention of immigrants and explore the role that carceral immigrant …
Capstone Projects
ENHANCING THE IMPACT MANAGEMENT PROCESS… charitable organization with an endowment of over $1 billion, roughly $170 million of which is allocated to …
Capstone Projects
Volunteer Program Management and EngagementFootsteps is an organization dedicated to providing services to those seeking to enter or explore a world beyond the ultra-Orthodox religious environment. Footsteps was seeking a Capstone team to assess the feasibility, provide recommendations, and …
Stories
Alumni Spotlight: Andrew Maguire (MPA 2018)For the past year, Andrew Maguire (MPA 2018) has been working on his upcoming book Teaching Between the Lines , which focuses on the role of youth development organizations in revealing the “hidden curriculum.” Teaching Between the Lines explores …
Capstone Projects
ENHANCING NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR MANGROVE RESTORATION
IN KENYAThe World Bank’s Kenya Urban Support Program forms and reinforces urban organizations to enhance infrastructure and services in Kenya’s participating counties. The World Bank enlisted the Capstone team to address the urgent challenge of coastal and …
Capstone Projects
LEVERAGING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
FOR REMOTE WORKThe Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF) is committed to finding a cure for Parkinson's disease through aggressively funded research and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with the disease. As MJFF underwent rapid growth and …
Publication
Food industry donations to academic programs: A cross-sectional examination of the extent of publicly available data… 500 list in the United States. Researchers recorded the: (1) monetary value of the donations; (2) years the donations …
Faculty Profile
KP TruebloodKP Trueblood is a seasoned organizational strategist with nearly two decades of experience strengthening mission-driven institutions through operational excellence, financial discipline, and integrated leadership. Her work centers on aligning resources to …
Publication
Microfinance as a credit card?Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, the most prestigious of a string of awards celebrating his role in creating banks for the poor. If there was a Nobel for marketing, he could have won that, too. That’s not meant as a jab but as recognition …
Publication
Does Knowing Your FICO Score Change Financial Behavior? Evidence from a Field Experiment with Student Loan BorrowersOne in five consumer credit accounts incur late fees each quarter. Evidence on the efficacy of regulations to improve behavior through enhanced disclosure of financial product attributes is mixed. We test a novel form of disclosure that provides borrowers …
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Using Mixture Models to Detect Sex Bias in Health Outcomes in BangladeshMany interesting economic hypotheses entail differences in behaviors of groups within a population, but analyses of pooled samples shed only partial light on underlying segmentations. Finite mixture models are considered as an alternative to methods based …
News
Alumni Spotlight: Joi J. Rae (MPA-PNP 2018)Joi J. Rae (MPA-PNP 2018), director of special projects and strategic partnerships, Stand Up America We'd love to learn more about your journey in civic engagement and political action. What drew you to this field? I come from a family of immigrants who …
Course
HPAM-GP.4840
Financial Management for Health Care Orgs - I: Financial Management and BudgetingThis course incorporates topics of planning and financial decision making as applied to health-care organizations. This course will cover two main topics: -Financial analysis both as a proactive exercise and a tool for organizational control. -Issues of …