Can Management Consulting Help Small Firms Grow?
Economic development efforts are best served by testing and refining assumptions about what works.
Research - Articles
Highlights from scholarly journals (more)
Lifetime Inequality
The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.
Focused Cardiac Care
What happens when hospitals specialize?
Civic Education Through Social Networks
In Kenya, civic education programs reached 4.5 million people in advance of the 2002 election.
Conformists Boost Creativity
The ideal team needs both creatives and conformists.
Chinese Community Development
Government authorities are experimenting to build citizen trust.
Lone Wolves vs. Teams
Civic associations should focus on policy goals and leadership.
Golfing Alone
Corporate donors prefer the opera to the soup kitchen.
Cents and Sensibility
Environmental accidents force putting a price on nature.
Trees Fight Crime
A Philadelphia study connects green spaces to neighborhood safety.