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Anand Desai
Professor

Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1986. Public Policy Analysis. Professor Desai's research interests include measurement of performance and evaluation of the provision of public services. In particular, he has worked on methods for measuring effectiveness and efficiency in the public sector and the use of statistical and operations research models for public policy analysis. He teaches courses on quantitative methods, information systems and the logic of inquiry. Professor Desai holds a courtesy appointment in the Management Science Department of the Fisher College of Business and the Environmental Science Graduate Program. He is a Center Scholar at the Center for Health Outcomes, Policy, and Evaluation Studies.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

A. Desai “Teaching Quantitative and Analytical Methods.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (forthcoming)

J. Ramanathan, R Ramnath and A. Desai “ Adaptive IT Architecture as a Catalyst for Network Capability in Government, ” in Advances in Government Enterprise Architecture, Pallab Saha (Ed.) (forthcoming).

A Desai, RT Greenbaum and Y. Kim, “Incorporating Policy Criteria in Spatial Analysis” American Review of Public Administration. (forthcoming).

A Desai. “Adaptive Complex Enterprise.” Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery. 48(5), 32-35, 2005.

A Desai, SJ Ratick and AP Schinnar. “Data Envelopment Analysis with Stochastic Variations in Data.”Socio-Economic Planning Sciences39(2) pp 147-164, 2004.

PV Balakrishnan, R Nataraajan, and A Desai. “Consumer rationality and economic efficiency: Is the assumed link justified?” Marketing Management Journal10(1) 1-11 2000.

C Weber, J Current and A Desai. "An Optimization Approach to Determining the Number of Vendors to Employ." Supply Chain Management5(2) 90-98, 2000.

A Desai, K Haynes and JE Storbeck. "A spatial efficiency framework for the support of locational decisions," in Data Envelopment Analysis: Theory, Methodology and Applications, A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, A. Lewin and L. Seiford (eds.) 1995, 235 - 252, Boston: Kluwer Academic Press.

PV Balakrishnan , A Desai and JE Storbeck. "Efficiency Evaluation of Retail Outlet Networks," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 21, 477-488, 1994.

A Desai and M-B You. "Policy Implications from an Evaluation of Seat Belt Use Regulation." Evaluation Review16(3), 247-265, June 1992.

D Andersen, A Desai, D DeShon and B Fry. "The NASPAA Alumni Survey Pilot: Design and preliminary results," American Review of Public Administration, 21, 205-236, 1991.

A Desai and JE Storbeck. "A note on the constraint inherent in successively-inclusive location hierarchies." Geographical Analysis, 23(4), 174-179, 1991.

A Desai and LC Walters. "Graphical presentations of Data Envelopment Analysis: Management implications from parallel axis representations." Decision Sciences, 22, 2, 335-353, 1991.

M Feuer, H Glick and A Desai. "Is firm sponsored education viable?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 8, 121-136, 1987.

TL Saaty and A Desai. "Decision making in fleet administration," NAFA Bulletin, April 1979.