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Benchmarking for Nonprofits
How to Measure, Manage, and Improve Performance
Jason Saul MPP 1993

Using real-world examples, this book helps nonprofits figure out how to measure how much of a “difference” they make — another way that benchmarking can improve performance.

The President’s Assassin
Brian Haig MPA 1984

In this, Brian Haig’s fifth novel, Sean Drummond is assigned to protect the president of the United States after the chief of staff (and his team of secret service agents) is found dead and a killer with inside Washington knowledge is on the loose.

Transforming Socialist Economies
Lessons for Cuba and Beyond
Daniel Erikson MPP 2001 and Shahid Javed Burki, editors

Coeditors Shahid Javed Burki and Daniel Erikson detail the struggle of communist countries embarking on a transition to capitalism since the end of the Cold War.

Lost Knowledge
Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce
David DeLong MPA 1984

A research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab and an adjunct professor at Babson College, David DeLong looks at a problem looming large in the near future that will make it difficult for many companies to sustain past performance levels: the retirement of highly skilled baby boomers and the inability of executives to attack the problem.

“If You Build It…”
Business, Government, and Ontario’s Electronic Toll Highway
Sandford Borins MPP 1974 and Chandran Mylvaganam

Using the history of Ontario’s Highway 47, a technologically advanced toll road, as its case study, this book looks at the lessons of privatization and public/private partnerships.