The Leadership Academy for Development (LAD) trains government officials and business leaders from developing countries to help the private sector be a constructive force for economic growth and development. It teaches carefully selected participants how to be effective reform leaders, promoting sound public policies in complex and contentious settings. AD Chris Walker prepared this case under ...

In established democracies, voters often evaluate incumbents’ performance based on economic outcomes. By contrast, in young democracies leaders are often thought to seek support by exploiting nationalism, exaggerating external threats, and manipulating the media. Such ploys are believed to work because voters are inexperienced and unsophisticated. Using time series data, I examine the determina...

Leaders must choose how to justify their organization's actions to stakeholders. We differentiate moral frames, or justifications based on moral values, from pragmatic frames, or justifications based on practical costs and benefits. In Experiments 1a and 1b, we found that moral policy frames elicited more support than pragmatic frames across a variety of scenarios. This effect was mediated by t...

The study assessed leaders' perceptions of adolescent alcohol use as a public health issue in 28 small communities in northern Minnesota, as part of formative evaluation for a community-based intervention to reduce adolescent alcohol access and consumption. One hundred and eighteen leaders from five key community sectors were interviewed about their perceptions of social, health and alcohol-rel...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, school leaders in a newly decentralized school system reached out to external organizations for partnerships—a job that had previously resided in the central office. The necessity of these contacts and the quantity of newly independent schools make a unique context for studying how school leaders think and act in relation to external partnerships. ...

Supervisors: Péter Gőcze, MD, PhD, D.Sc, UP-MS, Department of Obstetrics an Gynaecology István Kiss, MD, PhD, UP-MS, Department of Public Health Medicine Programme leaders: István Szabó, MD, PhD, D.Sc, UP-MS, Department of Obstetrics an Gynaecology István Ember, MD, PhD, D.Sc, UP-MS, Department of Public Health Medicine Head of the Doctoral School: Sámuel Komoly, MD, PhD, D.Sc, Clinical Medical...

Previous investments in public health research and education played major roles in improving population health and increasing life expectancy [1,2]. In the early 1900s, amidst efforts to eliminate hookworm from the southern United States (US), Welch and Flexner recognized the need to train public health leaders. They proposed a freestanding public health school affiliated with, but independent ...

Once central figures in American public health, waterworks engineers are no longer involved in many decisions made about the public water supplies. This paper argues that the profession's response to the early fluoridation movement of the 1940s and 1950s marked a change in the relationship between waterworks engineers and the other constitutive groups in public health and contributed to the dis...

Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public good experiment with endogenous timing. Even though it tu...

This study utilized a comparative case study analysis to investigate how gender influenced the experiences of participants in a leadership development program (principal preparation program) designed to lead public K-12 schools identified as requiring turnaround. We closely focused on two participants, a man and a woman, and compared the ways each participant made meaning of his/her experiences...