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Important research recently published in scholarly and professional journals

 

Can Management Consulting Help Small Firms Grow?

Economic development efforts are best served by testing and refining assumptions about what works.

 

Lifetime Inequality

The variation in lifetime earnings and wealth is largely determined by skills acquired by age 23.

By Corinna Wu | Summer 2012
 
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Focused Cardiac Care

What happens when hospitals specialize?

By Corinna Wu | Summer 2012
 
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Civic Education Through Social Networks

In Kenya, civic education programs reached 4.5 million people in advance of the 2002 election.

By Roberta Kwok | Summer 2012
 
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Conformists Boost Creativity

The ideal team needs both creatives and conformists.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 
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Chinese Community Development

Government authorities are experimenting to build citizen trust.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 

Golfing Alone

Corporate donors prefer the opera to the soup kitchen.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 

Lone Wolves vs. Teams

Civic associations should focus on policy goals and leadership.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 
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Trees Fight Crime

A Philadelphia study connects green spaces to neighborhood safety.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012
 

Cents and Sensibility

Environmental accidents force putting a price on nature.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012