How can moments with potential for transformational change be recognized and acted upon? What can be learned from the dramatic change in efforts to loosen the grip of organized crime on public institutions in America in the 1960s, the reform of the Teamsters Union in the 1970s-1990s, and the current battle against corruption in…
We are pleased to announce that we will again be hosting a Conference on Management in the Public Sector (the agendas from prior years’ conferences are shown below). The Conference will have sessions starting on the afternoon of Thursday, April 13th and continuing all day on Friday, April 14th (the outline for the events is…
Dr. Sadaf Jaffer is an Assemblywoman representing New Jersey's 16th Legislative District. She advocates for the best interests of NJ's 9.2 million residents with special attention to her district’s 230,000 constituents. She has championed increased funding for 9-1-1 call centers, teen suicide prevention programming, and…
Machine learning algorithms are widely used for decision making in societally high-stakes settings from child welfare and criminal justice to healthcare and consumer lending. Recent history has illuminated numerous examples where these algorithms proved unreliable or inequitable. This talk will show how causal inference enables…
Join us for lunch and a conversation with Jim McCloskey who, since 1983, has freed 67 men and women who were serving life or death sentences for crimes they did not commit. “We take on the hard cases – those that have no DNA available to prove our clients’ innocence. We re-investigate the crime, uncovering lost evidence,…
