Frank Camm

Empirical evidence of the effects of performance-based public management is scarce. This report describes a framework used to organize available empirical information on one form of performance-based

This report explores the value in defense installations working with municipalities and other government organizations to create public-to-public partnerships. It also identifies and suggests ways to

The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as an agent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant to promote early production experience with such plants.

To help the Army participate in planned reductions in the DoD civilian workforce, the authors examined how the Army might manage supply to meet projected demand for civilian employees over the next se

This document explains how to apply guidance on project evaluation to product support business case analyses in a way that allows senior Department of Defense decisionmakers to use net present value t

Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is kno

Concerned about U.S. Department of Defense contracts for private-sector services, Congress mandated development of an inventory of contract activities. RAND conducted a review of the system, stakehold

This report is the last of a series in which RAND explores the elements of a national strategy for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, in this new era of turbulence and uncertainty. Three alternative

To summarize trends and identify factors contributing to bid protest activity and outcomes in Air Force procurements, the authors assembled data from Air Force administrative databases on procurement

NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate asked RAND to assess flight research capabilities and needs, and to identify management options that would facilitate increased and improved flight rese

This report presents findings on the economic activity supported by national-level Army spending in each of the 435 congressional districts for fiscal years 2012–2014.

This appendix to The Army’s Local Economic Effects provides descriptions of the overall economic effects for each state, details by fiscal year from 2012–2014, and a parsing of the data by congression

This appendix to The Army’s Local Economic Effects provides descriptions of the overall economic effects for each state, details by fiscal year from 2012–2014, and a parsing of the data by congression

Recent bid protests have caused large disruptions in resource and operational planning in the Air Force, even leading to the cancellation of the Combat Search and Rescue helicopter program. Some tacti

Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is kno

●NEW SECTION HIGHLIGHTS LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE USE OF DATA AND ANALYTICS. Chapter 1 includes a new section that addresses common legal and ethical issues related to the use of data and analytics. This new legal and ethical section discusses recent data privacy laws as well as ethical issues that both practitioners and consumers of analytics models should consider.●PRACTICAL, RELEVANT PROBLEMS HELP STUDENTS MASTER CONCEPTS AND HANDS-ON SKILLS. Applications drawn from all functional business areas, including finance, marketing and operations, provide important practice at a variety of levels of difficulty. Time-saving data sets are available for most exercises and cases.●REVISED DATA MINING CHAPTERS OFFER CLEARER PRESENTATION OF CONCEPTS. The authors have reorganized and updated this edition's data mining chapters to ensure students thoroughly understand the presentation. The descriptive data mining chapter (Ch. 5) now appears after the probability chapter so that the data minin

The Clinical Guides are a brand new resource for junior doctors and medical students. They provide practical and concise day-to-day information on common conditions, symptoms and problems faced in the

In recent years there has been considerable interest in the diagnosis and understanding of ventricular repolarisation, particularly the QT interval prolongation and abnormal T and T/U wave morphology

The essential playbook for the future of your business What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artifi

One of the usual assumptions in economic theory is that an entity called a commodity can be measured or that the amount of it can be represented by any real number. The functions (or other types of ma

The description for this book, Production Theory and Indivisible Commodities. (PSME-3), will be forthcoming.

Describes the new rules and commercial models used by companies like Amazon, Netflix and Apple for managing the information around people, organizations, processes and products in the digital age to d

This new edition of a widely-read and highly-acclaimed book broadens the scope of its predecessors from a heavy focus on industrial chemicals as toxicants to include drugs, food additives, cosmetics a

This book is the first to be dedicated to the bioinformatics of carbohydrates and glycoproteins. It provides an introduction to this emerging field of science both for the experimentalist

The foundation of any successful process safety program is a current set of process hazard analyses (PHAs) for each of its processes. Revalidating PHAs to keep them up to date and applicable is a must